If Danny Boyle had made Salaam Bombay, would the movie have been subjected to the same venomous attacks that some members of the Bollywood ignorati have heaped upon his new award-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire. Most likely, yes. A lot of calumnies would have been heaped upon Danny. After all, Danny is a gora, a westerner from the […]
Indian buffoons of various hues including B.S.Yediyurappa (Karnataka Chief Minister), Ashok Chavan (Maharashtra Chief Minister), Anbumani Ramadoss (Union Health Minister), Ashok Gehlot (Rajasthan Chief Minister), RSS secretary K.Narahari et al have been ranting and raving, fretting and fuming against the ‘Pub Culture’ after the unsavory incident in Mangalore where women customers were beaten up by biped […]
Here comes yet another instalment of Incredible India featuring those only-in-India stories. * Checking adulterants for adulteration. Apparently, there is so much adulteration of gold in India that the prices of adulterants have shot up, leaving jewelers worried about adulteration of the adulterants. Read this excerpt: It is paradoxical, but both iridium and ruthenium have […]
Here’s Take 2 of Incredible India containing some of those only-in-India incredible stories: * Priests at an Orissa temple performed a special purificatory ceremony after the visit of a Dalit minister. There must be a special place reserved in hell for the Brahmin swines who still engage in obnoxious discriminatory practices in many parts of […]
My fellow citizens: I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. I thank President Bush for his service to our nation, as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition. Forty-four Americans have now […]
* You failed to stem the tide of good American jobs being outsourced to the Indian coolies * You failed to protect us on 9/11 * You failed to capture Osama Bin Laden * You failed to understand how badly the Guantanamo prison and the rendition policy of transporting abductees to third countries for torture […]