Main Aurr Mrs.Khanna – Box Office Gods Piss on Salman Khan, Again & Again & Again

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 is Trash, Say Indian Movie Critics

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. […]

Bravo, Sam Pitroda

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 […]

Chemistry Nobel for Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Jai Ho

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. […]

Got to Stop Eating Head Lice Chemicals Oops Mac Fries

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 […]

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