Penis Diet – What the Heck is That?

We’ve heard of Low Carb Diet, South Beach Diet, Low Fat Diet, Atkins Diet, Low Sodium Diet, Vegetarian Diet and a variety of other diets. Penis Diet, what the heck is that? Sounds like what some desperate pornographers would be peddling in junk e-mail. You know, the kind that arrives uninvited in your inbox with headers […]

Mumbai’s Killer Trains Kill, Kill & Kill Again

Mumbai’s cattle cars a.k.a. commuter trains have killed over 20,000 people in the last five years, according to local railway officials in this teeming metropolis. Worse than Nazi era cattle cars transporting Jews to the tragic  final solution, Mumbai’s commuter trains carry seven million people everyday with people clinging on to the sides and many […]

Krazzy 4 Review – Not Bad

Language: Hindi Actors: Arshad Warsi, Irrfan Khan, Rajpal Yadav, Suresh Menon, Dia Mirza, Juhi Chawla Director: Jaideep Sen Producer: Rakesh Roshan Written by: Ashwani Dhir Music: Rajesh Roshan  One of the more tolerable comedies emerging out of the Bollywood cesspool, Krazzy 4 is the story of four mental patients Raja (Arshad Warsi), Dr.Mukerji (Irrfan Khan), […]

Yaaradi Nee Mohini or Yaaradi Nee Shani?

Yaaradi Nee Mohini Director: Mithran R. Jawahar Actors:  Dhanush, Nayantara, Raghuvaran Music: Yuvan Shankar Raja Story, Screenplay & Dialogs: Selvaraghavan What an ugly movie! Is there no respite for suffering Tamil movie fans from garbage like Yaaradi Nee Shani oops Yaaradi Nee Mohini? Yaaradi Nee Shani is the usual ugly Kollywood combination of a pathetic […]

Jhumpa Lahiri on Novels & Short Stories

Indian-American writer Jhumpa Lahiri is a joy to read. We enjoyed reading Namesake. And we thoroughly enjoyed watching the eponymous movie starring Irrfan Khan and Tabu. Jhumpa, who lives in Brooklyn, has now come out with her new collection of short stories Unaccustomed Earth. Today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription required) has an interview with Jhumpa. Here’s […]

VMware Screws USA, to Invest $100m in India

What an irony! When Indian IT companies like Tata Consultancy Services and Wipro are stepping up their investments in the U.S., VMware is going the other way. Virtualization software house VMware joined the hordes of U.S. corporations that are screwing American workers with its just-announced plans to boost research and development operations in India through […]