Here comes the 13th instalment of Incredible India with those only-in-India stories. * India is one of those unique countries where humans are routinely treated worse than pigs. But dogs are now being treated better than humans. So what if several hundred million Indians lack proper homes and live in crumbling structures amidst filth and squalor. […]
This is an American tragedy. A new study by the Pew Center has found that 7.32 million American adults were in prison, on parole or on probation in 2007, a tripling over the last 25 years. Folks, that makes it 1 in every 31 American adults in prison, on parole or on probation. For Blacks, […]
It’s hell today, here in the Northeast. Heavy snow since Sunday evening has closed schools, delayed flights, shut down roads, caused power outages and created a big mess across the Northeast. Picture taken today at 10:15 ET (20:45 IST) Here’s an excerpt from the NYT: Schools were closed from Virginia to Maine, and government offices […]
Well, what do you expect from a crappy movie industry. Come on guys, are you really surprised that some of the crappiest Bollywood movies ever made or a bunch of zeros walked away with the top honors at the Filmfare awards ceremony. At the latest Crapfare oops Filmfare Awards ceremony, the top winners – it should actually […]
Folks, this edition of Incredible India focuses on the hundreds of millions in India who go to bed hungry every night in India’s countless villages. We present below an excerpt from the recent Report on the State of Food Insecurity in Rural India jointly prepared by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and MS […]
Folks, time to celebrate. Maneesh Dhir, the head of AOL International and the bloke responsible for aggressively pushing AOL’s expansion into India, has quit. We say Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish. God knows, how many jobs Maneesh killed in the U.S. in his missionary zeal to outsource AOL operations to India. A recent memo from AOL […]