Hey, hey, we’re back again with a new edition of Incredible India, those only in India blood-curdling stories. * It’s no secret that India’s policemen are notoriously corrupt scoundrels, rapists, thieves, encounter specialists a.k.a murderers and big-time crooks. In the past, some Indian policemen were even known to pour acid into the eyes of arrested […]
Folks, it’s no secret that we’re great fans of the actor and director Clint Eastwood and went into acute depression after his 2008 film Gran Torino failed to snag even a single Oscar nomination (goddamn it, JFK was right about life being unfair). For some unfathomable reason, we did not see Eastwood’s subsequent film Invictus. […]
There you go. Another Friday and another Bollywood movie gets butchered by the critics. So, what’s new. Queen Anne’s dead, folks. Here’s what the critics had to say on the new John Abraham film Jhootha Hi Sahi: DNA A weak, almost spineless screenplay, mediocre storyline, and “ajeeb” chemistry (rather, no chemistry) between lead pair Abraham […]
It takes the skin of five Australian marine crocodiles ($1,000 for each skin) to make the most expensive handbag in Tod’s catalog. Price of handbag – $10,000, according to the Sunday New York Times, October 10, 2010, Business Section P.7.
Who doesn’t like the Made in China stuff? Bet all ye cheap desi chutias jump in glee, salivating like epileptic dogs upon seeing the price tags on all those low-priced iPods, jeans, cell phones, umbrellas, laptops and what-not-goods, all Made in China. It’s not often we watch a documentary given our hectic schedule and the […]
High profile NYC Indian restaurant Tabla will be the latest desi eating house in the Big Apple to join the gone baby, gone club. After failing to attract sufficient diners to succeed as a business, the 12-year-old Tabla is shutting its doors on December 30. Bombay/Goa native Floyd Cardoz calls the shots in Tabla’s kitchen. […]