Un ‘f*&#*ng’ believable. Insurance giant AIG, which has received $170 billion in tax-payer funded bailout, is paying out over $700 hundred million in bonus and retention payments to its employees, according to the Washington Post. The feeble excuse – AIG is contractually obligated to pay the money. But U.S. courts have routinely thrown out contracts […]
Lo, here comes the 15th instalment of Incredible India with those only-in-India stories. * Beggar Capital of the World – India’s capital New Delhi has 58,000 beggars, most of them children, according to the Voice of America. * Laddu Explodes in Cow’s Mouth: No kidding, folks. Read this story in Times of India. * SSC […]
Does Madhavan even count at all? If Madhavan disappeared from Bollywood or Kollywood today, would anyone even notice. No, we don’t think many people would notice or care. Madhavan’s horror show 13B came in at No-78 for the March 6-8, 2009 opening weekend at the U.S. box office and had an average gross of $675 […]
We are just back from our neighborhood library having borrowed (or checked out as they say here) John Grisham’s new book The Associate. Like a lot of people with lots of time on their hands, we’ve probably read all of Grisham’s novels (though we’d be hard pressed to recollect the plot of most now except vaguely for […]
Folks, here’s the fourth instalment of Amazing America. This post will focus on how the popular death penalty is getting a reprieve in the United States. Do you know why? No, not because people here have stopped believing in the eye for an eye retribution but because the death penalty is becoming very expensive and unaffordable […]
Image Source: WHO, 2010 Mera Bharat Mahan. Incredible India. Shining India. Wow, nice sounding feel-good words, na? Folks, as we were desultorily roaming across the gullies and byways of the Internet a few hours back, we stumbled upon a Bloomberg story about a most disturbing crisis that’s very open but yet not acknowledged by most […]