Desi kid Aditya Chemudupaty is out of the 2010 Spelling Bee. Aditya was tripped by engysseismology. The 13-year-old is an 8th grader at Nolan Ryan Junior High School in Pearland, Texas. Oh, well. there are two more desi kids in the fray: Anamika Veeramani and Shantanu Srivatsa. Here’s Aditya’s bio from the Bee web site: […]
Is this the end of an era or what? Today, at the close of trading Apple vaulted ahead of Microsoft in market capitalization. Here, see the below numbers to peer into the future: By the way, it beats us as to why Steve Ballmer has not been fired yet. Ballmer has been head honcho of […]
Darling kadhu, Parama Daridram idhi (horrible nonsense). Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the stinking garbage torch has been passed in Tollywood to a new Telugu movie Darling, conceived in Hyderabad, midwifed in Switzerland and killed aborted in Araku. (Thank you, JFK) Folks, there’s absolutely […]
Indian movie critics have savaged the new Bollywood movie Paathshala (Shahid Kapoor, Nana Patekar). Here’s what a sample of Bollywood critics had to say on Paathshaala: Reuters: “Paathshaala” is an incoherent mess of a film which takes a serious issue and manages to run it to the ground. Why someone like Shahid Kapur would want […]
Schmucks, we ain’t talking of the Prophet here but A Prophet. Verstehen? Nein? Dann halt deine klappe. Blessing our good fortune and thanking Bollywood, Kollywood, Tollywood et al for not releasing any films lately, we headed for Philadelphia yesterday for some Chaat and to watch the French movie A Prophet. While the Chaat at Desi […]
In one what must count as one of the great tragedies of the 21st century literary fiction world, Swedish writer Stieg Larsson never lived to enjoy the fruits of success from his wildly popular crime novels. Since most of ye schmucks read so little, some education is in order before we proceed to the movie […]