British spy novelist John Le Carré is mad as hell. Le Carré is mad at America and its closest ally, UK. It’s no secret to careful readers of Le Carré that the author has turned anti-American in his autumn years. In A Most Wanted Man, the young Chechen falls victim at the end to U.S. […]
Being cheapo desis, we started salivating when the $99 Ouya game console launched last week. Such was the demand that the consoles quickly disappeared from shelves within hours. We had to wait a couple of days before our online order was fulfilled. Since picking up the console yesterday, we’ve been trying out the various features. […]
These days there’s a lot of buzz in the U.S. around 4K TV sets. HD TVs, if you believe the buzz, is passe. So 2012. Sony, Sharp, and Seiki are some of the vendors that have jumped into the 4K TV fray in recent months. Just this week, two vendors have launched 4K TVs. On […]
By Naveen Hey, all Desi story writers out there! There’s news for you! Bollywood has found a way to use your trash ahem… scripts! If you have half-baked and incomplete scripts lying around, hand it over to EROS International. They will find someone to weave it all into a single movie. Who cares whether it […]
Most films I watch these days leave me deeply dissatisfied and often angry because there is little new to titillate hardened, cynical viewers like yours truly who think, rightly or wrongly, they’ve seen it all. But the 2008 Japanese film Departures provided a pleasant jolt to my jaded senses and amply made up for the […]
We live in a world full of small men. Fortunately, there are still some brave, honorable people like Edward Snowden who through their actions make the world a better place for all of us. Snowden, 29, a former employee of the CIA, works for defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton as an Infrastructure Analyst for the […]