Gosh, it’s nearly a month since our last episode of highlighting happenings in Incredible India. If it’s India, can Sania, acid attacks, starvation deaths and the like be far behind. Here’s a look at some of the only-in-India stories: * Where have all the Indian men gone. The Indian census says there about 602 million […]
It’s hard not to feel a huge degree of schadenfreude over Yelp’s pitiful plight these days. For the benefit of those not living in the U.S.,Yelp is an online destination for Reviews of restaurants and other businesses. Easily Manipulable We’ve always believed a lot of reviews on the Yelp site are junk. Why? Because it’s […]
Some people never learn from past missteps. Notwithstanding his repeated troublesome experiences with the NYC Health Department, Bollywood actor and Indian restaurateur Shiva Natarajan continues to taunt the hygiene police with his antics. Our garrulous Shiva’s newest Indian restaurant Bhojan has recently been pulled up by the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene for […]
(For SI Blog reader Kreacher) Kreacher, did we need the Pig, Dip in the Pool and The Landlady in these short winter days of our life. Whatever possessed you to recommend Roald Dahl’s stories to us. Well, we won’t hold you completely responsible. You see our appetite for Dahl’s short stories was also whetted by […]
Ram, the Hindu God beloved of a billion stupid Indians, seems to be in an angry mood. So angry that the ‘God’ went on a RAMpage that took the lives of 65 of his devotees today in a stampede at the Ram Janaki temple in Kunda town of Pratapgarh district in the North Indian state […]
Last night, as we were poring over recent foreign releases on Netflix Instant Play our eyes fell on the German film A Woman in Berlin. Based on the eponymous book by an anonymous woman diarist, the movie is set in Berlin at the end of World War II. What was touted as The Thousand Year […]