Future historians will most certainly describe Pakistan’s craven surrender to the Taliban pigs in the Swat region as a Himalayan blunder. Emboldened by the surrender of Swat Valley, the Taliban has already ushered in Sharia (Islamic law) in parts of Swat and taken over the neighboring Buner district as well. How far from Buner to […]
The bozos at Sun have at last managed to find someone to put them out of their misery after the smart folks at IBM bailed out a few weeks back. Database giant Oracle is buying Sun for $5.6 billion (after accounting for Sun’s debt and cash). We think Oracle overpaid by $5.6 billion. The deal […]
The other day SI readers boopalanj and guruprasad brought up the issue of different types of torture including the Chinese and Medieval flavors. We were reminded of it today as we were reading an article in the Sunday edition of our favorite newspaper, the New York Times. On P.12 of the print edition of the […]
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK leader M.Karunanidhi has lost his marbles and therefore gets a new name – Loose Paiya (crackpot). The decrepit dinosaur told Indian TV channel NDTV that Velupillai Prabhakaran (the notorious LTTE terrorist) is not a terrorist and is his good friend. No, we’re not making this one up, folks. This […]
What’s not to like about State of Play. All ye naysaying cretins, speak out now or forever hold your tongue. A fine thriller set at the intersection of Washington politics, investigative journalism, murder, extra-marital romance and an evil defense contractor, State of Play is the must watch movie of this season. Featuring a solid screenplay […]
Folks, here comes the 22nd instalment of Incredible India, with those only-in-India stories. * This one is straight out of the Ripley’s Believe it or Not book and we were tongue-tied when we first heard this. Mahesh, a follower of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, cut his tongue at a Hindu temple as a […]