Crapware Fares Well at Filmfare Awards

Well, what do you expect from a crappy movie industry. Come on guys, are you really surprised that some of the crappiest Bollywood movies ever made or a bunch of zeros walked away with the top honors at the Filmfare awards ceremony. At the latest Crapfare oops Filmfare Awards ceremony, the top winners – it should actually […]

Medical Butlers – Another Nail in U.S Healthcare Coffin

Yes. we all know Jeeves. Bertie’s venerable Man Friday, yes. But Medical Butlers. What in the heck is that? Well, Medical Butlers are a new category of workers brought about by the disastrous American healthcare system. As we were desultorily contemplating the coming collapse of the U.S. healthcare system, we were drawn to this new category […]

American Job Killer Maneesh Dhir Quits AOL

Folks, time to celebrate. Maneesh Dhir, the head of AOL International and the bloke responsible for aggressively pushing AOL’s expansion into India, has quit. We say Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish. God knows, how many jobs Maneesh killed in the U.S. in his missionary zeal to outsource AOL operations to India. A recent memo from AOL […]

Screw Slumdog Millionaire; Meet a Real ‘Slumdog’ – Sunil

In all the euphoria about the success of Oscar winner Slumdog Millionaire (a fairytale rags-to-riches love story of a Mumbai slumdweller Jamal), we tend to forget the real ‘slumdogs’ of India. In the latest issue of the New Yorker (February 23, 2009, p.22-29), Katherine Boo has a must-read piece about 13-year-old Sunil, a real ‘slumdog’ […]

Nervous as Hell – Yes, Watching the Oscars

By God, we’ve never been this nervous. Not even when we tried our first smooch unsure of the consequences. Will Slumdog Millionaire and A.R.Rahman win the Ultimate Honor in the movie business – the Oscars. We are not great believers in God. But tonight we’ll make an exception. God, please let it happen. (By the […]

Watching After the Wedding

We are now watching After the Wedding, a Danish movie that has an Indian connection. Directed by Susanne Bier, After the Wedding features Mads Mikkelsen, Rolf LassgÃ¥rd, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Stine Fischer Christensen, Mona Malm, Christian Tafdrup, Niels Anders Thorn, Rita Angela and Erni Arneson. The movie was nominated to the Oscars in the Best […]

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