We have lived through an era where too often, short-term gains were prized over long-term prosperity; where we failed to look beyond the next payment, the next quarter, or the next election. A surplus became an excuse to transfer wealth to the wealthy instead of an opportunity to invest in our future. Regulations were gutted […]
U.S. Box office collections for Shahrukh Khan’s crap show Billu Barber have fallen 85.60 % in the second weekend. In a humiliating rebuff to the Bollywood superstar, Hindi movie fans have shown Shahrukh Khan the middle finger. Billu Barber’s second weekend collections are worse than that for some of the lousiest Hindi movies ever made – […]
In all the euphoria about the success of Oscar winner Slumdog Millionaire (a fairytale rags-to-riches love story of a Mumbai slumdweller Jamal), we tend to forget the real ‘slumdogs’ of India. In the latest issue of the New Yorker (February 23, 2009, p.22-29), Katherine Boo has a must-read piece about 13-year-old Sunil, a real ‘slumdog’ […]
The latest instalment of Incredible India with those only in India stories begins with a tragic, depressing tale and ends with an inspiring account. * Submit to Molestation or Die. After failing in his attempts to molest a 14-year-old girl, a thug in Moradabad (Uttar Pradesh state) set the girl on fire causing her death. Here’s an […]
Delhi 6 Falling, Falling, Falling – Down 75% Abhishek’s Delhi 6 Fails to Sizzle at Box Office Folks, for the first time in so many years there were 17 people (12 initially + 5 more trooped in just as the movie started) for the 12:30PM show of a Bollywood movie in the U.S. on a […]
Billu Barber Crashes 86%Â Folks, God Exists. Yes, he sure does. Bollywood fans, who routinely come in their pants at the mere mention of Shahrukh Khan’s name, have not merely rejected the Billu Barber crap show but shown it their middle finger, going by boxofficemojo’s studio estimates. Studio estimates provided by boxofficemojo show that Billu Barber […]