Shilpa Jamkhandikar (Reuters): Suparn Varma’s Acid Factory, which releases in cinemas this week has a unique feature – that of having the biggest ensemble of bad actors on a single screen. Fardeen Khan, Aftab Shivdasani, Dino Morea, Dia Mirza, Danny Denzongpa and even the usually dependable Manoj Bajpai put in such atrociously bad performances that […]
Go away, now. We’re in a private meeting with an old acquaintance. With whom, you ask? Now children, ask yourself what day is it today. Look at your calendar. September 15, right? So, who else would we be in a private meeting with? With Professor Robert Langdon, of course. Like millions of readers worldwide, zombie-like […]
Desi journalist Rafat Ali, a respected figure in U.S. digital media circles, put out a blog post yesterday that sees little hope for music startups. An engineering graduate from the Aligarh Muslim University in India, Ali is the founder of PaidContent and other digital media blogs that were sold last year to UK’s Guardian Group […]
Once again (this time in a new report from the Inspectors General of various departments including Defense and Justice released yesterday), we hear that besides domestic wiretapping, former President George W.Bush also approved other forms of surveillance whose details have still not been disclosed. We are not surprised over reports of U.S. domestic snooping or […]
Google’s VP of Product Management Sundar Pichai (pichai is a Tamil word meaning to beg) extends his marketshare/mindshare begging bowl again with yet another DOA project – Chrome OS, an operating system targeted initially at netbooks and over time at the larger desktops as well. Netbooks are small form-factor DVD-less laptops with superior battery-life and […]
Southern Spice is now closed (via iPhone) Lunching at Southern Spice in Flushing (near the Ganesh Temple). Lousy. Lousy. Lousy. Comprende? Lousy food. Lousy desserts. Lousy service. Full review coming later. Update After reading a report in the New York Times that Sridhar Rathnam, the owner of Madras Cafe, a NYC vegetarian restaurant we liked, […]