(Recommended by SI reader shadowfax_arbit) Slipped the Alai Payuthe DVD into our player. Directed by Mani Ratnam, Alai Payuthe features B-grade Tamil film star Madhavan with Shalini (now Ajith’s wife) playing his heroine. Madhavan is not a bad actor but we wonder if anyone gives a flying f**k for this Nai-kutty (puppy) faced fella. After […]
Was it a case of heightened anticipation that left us feeling disappointed with this 3D movie? Were we led to expect the impossible by the 98% ratings? Or was the movie Up just OK. Who can say for sure. But one thing’s for certain. Never again, folks. Never again will we be swayed by the […]
Kavya Shivashankar is winner of the Scripps Spelling Bee 2009 championship making it the second year in a row that a desi kid has been crowned the top speller of America (Sameer Mishra won the title last year). The winning word was Laodicean, meaning lukewarm or indifferent. Besides the Spelling Bee 2009 cup, Kavya took […]
Statistic of the Day – Desis in Spelling Bee 2009Â OK, folks. We’re back from our beer-induced siesta and lo, what do we find – 15 desi kids made it to the 2009 Spelling Bee semifinals 15 out of 31 desi kids who cleared the early rounds of 2009 Spelling Bee are now in the […]
Update: Kavya Shivashankar is Spelling Bee 2009 Champion Folks, two rounds of the Spelling Bee 2009 are already over. And so far, our desi kids have covered themselves with glory. As we type this post, Round Three is going on in Washington DC . There are at least 31 Desi students among the 293 contestants who […]
Here in the U.S. and in India too, we’re told ad nauseum, ad infinitum that children are the future of the country. A constant refrain is that if we want our nation to be great, we need to invest in our children and in our schools, hire good teachers and so on. While the state […]