(Recommended by SI reader guruprasad) Just received the High Noon DVD from Netflix. Released in 1952, the 85-minute movie features Gary Cooper and our beloved Grace Kelly. Directed by Fred Zinnemann, the movie went on to win four Academy Awards including Best Actor for Gary Cooper. High Noon is not our first Gary Cooper film. […]
Who the f*** cares if our Bollywood bozos and the Indian multiplex owners are in a standoff over sharing the booty from the pathetic run of Hindi movies. There are plenty of alternatives from Hollywood in the coming weeks, according to the print edition of the Sunday New York Times (May 3, 2009), which had […]
Few of us realize it but the way others see us is quite different from the way we see ourselves. Take for instance, India and Pakistan. Born in violence and hatred, the two countries have officially fought three wars and several unofficial wars including an ongoing one in Kashmir. Naturellement, there’s very little love lost […]
PCs are getting cheaper and cheaper and cheaper in the U.S. After our Acer desktop PC gave up the ghost recently (we think the culprit was the video card) and after a few half-hearted attempts at fixing it, we did what most people do in this country when something breaks down – we trooped over […]
A spectre is haunting the Republican Party: The specter of Arlen Specter (the sentence is a modification of Karl Marx’ Communist Manifesto). Folks, God Exists He/she/it most definitely does. And now, don’t you dare disagree with us because we have proof. After serving four decades in the company of a whole bunch of Republican loonies, […]
IIT Kharagpur alumni and quality guru Subir Chowdhury has won the ‘Outstanding American by Choice‘ award handed out by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service to recognize the outstanding achievements of naturalized U.S. citizens. Here’s what the 42-year-old Subir said on hearing the news of the award: Whatever I have dreamed, America has always […]