Snow Hell in North East Today

(Update: Just lost TV and cable Internet. Hope we don’t lose power) (Update 2: TV and cable Internet restored after 4 hours.) God, we’re completely snowed in today. Several inches of snow on the ground outside. And it’s still snowing. The weathermen are warning this is a big winter storm and that travel conditions could […]

Copper Chimney NYC – An Ash for the Price of a Shriya

Like all cheapo desis, we’ve always craved an Aishwarya Rai for the price of a Shriya Saran. Class for the price of crass has unfailingly been our mantra and guiding light. Oh, come on, you jerks. Don’t tell us you unwashed, cheapo desis are any different. And boy, an Aishwarya Rai is what we landed […]

Someone Please Teach Nandita Khanna Some Hygiene

Hygiene, it seems, is not a word found in desi restaurateur Nandita Khanna’s lexicon. Nandita’s high-end Utsav Indian restaurant in New York City continues to be plagued by serious hygiene issues. A recent NYC Health Dept inspection of Utsav (11/30/2009) brought up sewage disposal, adulterated food, live mice and vermin issues. Yeeks. Raw, cooked or […]

The Road Review – Bleak Charmer

Surely, never has the bleak, woebegone, wretched aftermath of the apocalypse been so spell-binding. The whiners may complain that The Road does not rise to the level of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize winning eponymous novel on which the movie is based (say, which movie ever lives up to the book) but don’t count us among […]

Great News: Vikram Buddhi gets 57 Months in Slammer

No Avakai pickle or Gongura Pulusu for Telugu bidda Vikram Subbarao Buddhi. It’s gonna be bland American prison food for Vikram Buddhi for some more time. U.S. District Court Judge James Moody today sentenced IIT alumnus and Purdue University student Vikram Subbarao Buddhi to prison for a period of 57 months in the United States […]

Biryani Cart NYC – Lovely Biryani, Lousy Kati Roll

(Recommended by SI reader Satya) After watching Akshay Kumar’s latest nightmare a.k.a De Dana Dan the other day, we were in desperate need of some cheering and comforting. So after the crappy movie ended, we walked up a few blocks from AMC Empire 25 on 42nd St to the latest New York City landmark – […]

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