If you ask me, there’re a couple of vexing flaws at the heart of Ridley Scott’s space adventure Martian (Matt Damon, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jeff Daniels, Jessica Chastain). At its core, the movie is about a young astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) stranded on Mars and the heroic efforts mounted from Earth to rescue him. When […]
In the scientific or media world, to slam a person’s positions on a sensitive subject as that of a end-of-days mystic is tantamount to calling him/her a blithering idiot. And that’s precisely how New Yorker buggered Vandana Shiva. Vandana – Vocal Opponent Worship her or dismiss her as a rabble-rousing idiot, it’s hard to ignore […]
Asking for a discount doesn’t mean I’m poor. It means I’m thrifty. – Om Puri’s character Papa in The Hundred Foot Journey Filmed in Mumbai (a short-bit) and France, The Hundred Foot Journey is visual splendor. Linus Sandgren’s photography – of rural France, Indian and French food, the markets, the cast etc – is like […]
Chutiya programmers a.k.a. Indian coders are all over the place. From Hicksville in New York to Sunnyvale in California to Geneva in Switzerland, I’ve spotted Indian code monkeys in buses, trains, Indian restaurants, parks, office towers and tourist attractions. With all these tens of thousands of Chutiyas strutting around and poring endlessly over their computers, […]
We do the shopping and chopping so you can enjoy the cooking! – Ankita and Madhuri, founders of Saffron Fix If you’re like me, you’re always famished and like any sane desi in America crave spicy Indian food. No pasta, burgers, meatballs or tacos for us. For your Indian fix in America, you have four […]
Let it never be said that Telugus are not doing their best to jumpstart the troubled U.S. economy. In New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Florida, Pennsylvania and other parts of the U.S., Telugus are stepping up to the plate by committing crimes (big and small), plead guilty or get convicted, go to jail […]