Bollywood director Anees Bazmee’s Welcome Back is a rara avis. A feculent atrocity completely unfit for viewing by normal humans (Indians excepted). But given the insatiable appetite of our Bollywood fans for numbing crap, I fear this Friday’s nightmare will turn into a decent hit (despite the absence of A-list stars). Zip, Nada, Nothing I […]
For this fine debut novel by Fatima Bhutto, I owe much thanks to a bitch. I never had the good fortune to set my eyes on the bitch, only heard of her antics second-hand. But the bitch did me a huge favor for which I’m indebted to her. You see, back in Mera Bharat Mahaan […]
Dominika…reached out and put her hand in the president’s lap…With practiced feel, Dominika estimated smaller-than-average dimensions… – Palace of Treason, P.420-422 Ever since I came under the relentless scrutiny of the G-Men, my long-standing interest in spy thrillers (both books and movies) has heightened. So it should hardly surprise you that I picked up ex-CIA […]
Is it just me or are we all agreed that Intel’s new Linux Compute Stick is a piece of junk that has no hope of success. Touting the Compute Stick in hyperbolic terms as a “New Mini-Computing Paradigm,” Intel describes it as a “pocket-sized computer delivering an entry computer experience by plugging directly into the […]
Try as I might, even a hardcore gadget freak like me finds it impossible to get excited over Chromebooks. Compared to the prospect of using a Chromebook, sitting through a Priyanka Chopra, Salman Khan, Allu Arjun or Ajith Kumar movie would be an unending thrill. Just yesterday, a gaggle of journalists fawned over a new […]
Life abounds in ironies. Some weirder than others. As anyone who can move a mouse quickly realizes, Indians arrived late to the computer and software party. We owe modern computer hardware, software and the Internet to the pioneering work at American research institutions like Xerox PARC and Bell Labs, the U.S. Defense Department and scores […]