(Thanks to Guruprasad.S, Satya, Zaid, Viswajithkn & other readers of the SearchIndia.com blog for recommending Satya.) Even a hideous performance by the modern-day Lady Macbeth a.k.a. Urmila Matondkar can’t mar the beauty of this gangster flick Satya. And all physical evidence to the contrary, we refuse to believe Ram Gopal Varma is still alive (If […]
India has many things to be ashamed of – entrenched corruption, pathetic basic infrastructure, frequent communal violence, abject poverty and chronic hunger of its many poor millions, to name just a few. But nothing is more shameful than the growing number of chronically hungry or undernourished people in the country. According to the Food and […]
Is it too much to ask Indian restaurants in New York City that they keep their premises and kitchens reasonably clean? Indian restaurants in New York City are notoriously dirty. Restrooms without toilet paper, spoiled food, dirty outer garments of staff, rats, mice, flying insects and other live animals are only some of the ugly […]
For over four decades now, it’s been apparent to all but the completely blind or the utterly senile that India is a blundering, doddering mockery of a democracy that has totally lost its way. A soft state, to borrow Gunnar Myrdal’s terminology, where the government institutions have become so weak and corruption so endemic that […]
Friends and family often ask us whether we’re waddling advertisements for the laughing Buddha, you know the one with the swollen belly. You see, like most Indians we relish our Malai Kofta, Navaratan Korma, Chicken Chettinad, Idli, Vada, Gojju, Masala Dosa and those delectable desi sweets like Jangir, Doodhi Halwa, Kesar Peda, Badam Halwa, Haigreeva et al. From […]
Finding a good Dosa in the U.S. is becoming almost as hard as seeing the Halley’s Comet. And for unabashed gourmands like us, who’d kill for a good Dosa, that’s so frustrating. In our odyssean quest for good Dosas, we have traveled far and wide, often driving across state borders in the U.S. Alas, nemesis […]