Folks, we’ve said this a million times. Indian restaurants run by our desis in the U.S. are obscenely filthy, more like public toilets in India. Now one of these shit-holes has earned the dubious distinction of being forcibly closed by the authorities. The New York City Health Department recently closed Madras Mahal on Lexington Avenue […]
Statutory Warning: All Religions are Equally Stupid One of the striking things about the Quran is the flexibility of God (Allah) in some minor respects and an unyielding inflexibility in other major aspects. Take for instance pork. Many of us are led to believe that God (Allah) imposes strict prohibitions in dietary matters, particularly in […]
Statutory Warning: All Religions are Equally Stupid Holy cow, what are you saying? Are my eyes playing tricks on me? SI, are you really saying God (Allah) has given me the green light to screw my wife any which way I fancy. Indeed, children. Bet you schmucks never thought Allah would be so broadminded, did […]
You will not make a good death. (Source: John Burdett, Bangkok 8, p.100, emphasis added) After a particularly odious meal at Bombay Talk on Oak Tree Road in Iselin (NJ) the other day, we were reminded of the above Thai power curse that seemed appropriate to hurl at the fiends behind this trashy Indian fast […]
(Recommended by SI Blog reader Guruprasad) I pedaled as fast as I could, as if I were escaping from longing, from innocence, from her. Time has passed and I’ve loved many women. And as they’ve held me close and asked if I will remember them I’ve said, “Yes, I will remember you.” But the only […]
At some Indian restaurants in New York City, the attraction is in the fine food and pleasing service. At others like Bawarchi on 1st Avenue (at 63rd St) in New York City the highlight seems to be its death wish – An inexplicable, bizarre desire to want to shut its doors permanently at the earliest […]