Lo, here comes the eighth instalment of Incredible India. * Shahrukh Khan has shaved the word ‘barber‘ in hoarding ads for his upcoming movie Billu Barber following protests from the barbers. Here’s an excerpt from the TOI story: After courting controversy days ahead of its release, Shah Rukh Khan’s latest film ‘Billu Barber’ will see […]
India is truly fertile soil for a cornucopia of those weird only-in-India stories. Here’s instalment 7 of Incredible India. * A sick man in the South Indian state of Kerala died after the dilapidated stretcher on which he was placed broke into two and he fell to the ground. If the end result wasn’t so […]
Here comes yet another instalment of Incredible India featuring those only-in-India stories. * Checking adulterants for adulteration. Apparently, there is so much adulteration of gold in India that the prices of adulterants have shot up, leaving jewelers worried about adulteration of the adulterants. Read this excerpt: It is paradoxical, but both iridium and ruthenium have […]
Akshay Kumar’s latest nightmare Chandni Chowk to China has collapsed 80% at the U.S. box office in its second weekend. This dungheap of a movie came in at No-38 with an average gross of $965. This piece of garbage did worse than even Drona in the second week,
Vikram Pandit a.k.a. Desi Butcher is a man with absolutely no shame. The man is also a f****** idiot. The incompetent dodo who is clueless in dealing with the mega-crisis facing the beleaguered financial services company Citigroup (of which he is CEO), the desi butcher whose sole mantra to handle the crisis is to hack away […]
People often bitch and moan about how bad things are in India or that things are now deteriorating in the U.S. But few realize how much worse things are in so many other parts of the world like Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Somalia, Zimbabwe or in Western Africa. The New York Times has a P.1 story […]