Salman Khan Sinking, Sinking, Sinking Salman Khan may not guarantee good movies. But Salman ‘Flop‘ Khan certainly guarantees that his movies will perform pitifully at the U.S. box office. If you thought Salman Khan’s last movie Wanted did badly at the U.S. box office, that ain’t nothing compared to the Main Aurr Mrs.Khanna debacle. A […]
Blue Review – Mindblowing Garbage Folks, the first serious reviews of Akshay Kumar’s Blue are starting to come in and the depressing verdict – Trash. Blue is Trash. What can we say? Given Akshay Kumar’s recent history of delivering fetid garbage like Kambhakkht Ishq and Chandni Chowk to China, we are not surprised at all. […]
Wake up, all ye somonolent creatures. Time now for your Incredible India fix. * Folks, this is a story that can come only out of Incredible India. Gay men in India have now started observing Karva Chauth, you know that asinine fasting ritual practiced by retarded Hindu women for the longevity of their husbands. Here’s […]
National Knowledge Commission Chairman Sam Pitroda has sounded a prescient lament about the Indian health system going the way of the unaffordable U.S. system. Very timely warning, folks. Here’s an excerpt of Pitroda’s speech from the Hindu: National Knowledge Commission chief Sam Pitroda on Wednesday said that the Indian health system was going the “highly […]
Jai ho, Karuppiah. Oh boy, our Karuppiahs a.k.a Tamils are all over the place. No kidding. Indian-American Venkatraman Ramakrishnan has won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on mapping the ribosomes at the atomic level. Born in 1952 in the temple town of Chidambaram in Tamil Nadu, India, Venkatraman got a Ph.D. […]
Dunno about you. There’s something about the Mac fries that’s got us swearing by it (at least most of the time). Not even the news in the desi rags about use of beef extracts made a difference. Last night, we read a piece in the New York Times Sunday Magazine (Oct 4, 2009) that McDonald’s […]