I’m now knowing the smell of death. They are sweet like sugarcane and rotten like palm wine. And when [dead bodies] stay in the sun, they’re growing plump like brown mangoes. – Little Agu, after witnessing one too many deaths as a child soldier Director Cary Joji Fukunaga has put out no less than a […]
For this fine debut novel by Fatima Bhutto, I owe much thanks to a bitch. I never had the good fortune to set my eyes on the bitch, only heard of her antics second-hand. But the bitch did me a huge favor for which I’m indebted to her. You see, back in Mera Bharat Mahaan […]
The Undertaker’s Daughter by Kate Mayfield 2015, 348 pages Good books are hard to come by these days in my local library. So I was all atwitter when I spotted a beguiling title like Kate Mayfield’s memoir The Undertaker’s Daughter. Little did I know the bitter disappointment that lay ahead of me! Enormous Potential Given […]
Try as I might, even a hardcore gadget freak like me finds it impossible to get excited over Chromebooks. Compared to the prospect of using a Chromebook, sitting through a Priyanka Chopra, Salman Khan, Allu Arjun or Ajith Kumar movie would be an unending thrill. Just yesterday, a gaggle of journalists fawned over a new […]
Life abounds in ironies. Some weirder than others. As anyone who can move a mouse quickly realizes, Indians arrived late to the computer and software party. We owe modern computer hardware, software and the Internet to the pioneering work at American research institutions like Xerox PARC and Bell Labs, the U.S. Defense Department and scores […]
We can ban India’s Daughter in India. This is an international conspiracy to defame India. We will see how the film can be stopped abroad too. – Indian Parliamentary Affairs minister M Venkaiah Naidu Appropriate legal action will follow. The government will take all necessary measures to ensure that this film doesn’t get telecast further, […]