Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Akshaye Khanna, Bipasha Basu, Anil Kapoor, Katrina Kaif, Sameera Reddy Director: Abbas-Mustan Story & Screenplay: Shiraz Ahmed Music: Pritam When you have too many meaningless twists in a story, the end result is an ugly twisted movie called Race. Even Saif Ali Khan’s sterling performance cannot save Race from the garbage […]
We are currently reading Parag Khanna’s new book The Second World – Empires and Influence in The New Global Order, the talk of the town these days. Since we couldn’t wait to do a post on the book, we gave it something like the Washington read (flipping through the index to find what’s of interest). […]
We have yet to read Jennifer 8. Lee’s new book The Fortune Cookie Chroniclers: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food but we plan to pick it up soon. Meanwhile, here’s an excerpt from today’s New York Times review of The Fortune Cookie Chroniclers: Lee presents an intriguing idea in a chapter called “Open-Source Chinese Restaurants,†[…]
Anjappar Chettinad NYC Review Anjappar Chettinad in North Brunswick, New Jersey gives a bad name not just to the famed Chettinad cuisine but to all Indian restaurants in the U.S. Disgusting service and a distasteful kitchen come together to deliver a dreadful experience to diners at Anjappar’s new outpost in North Brunswick, NJ. A far […]
Shahrukh Khan Stopped at US Airport Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan does not like America, according to an interview he gave recently to the The Times (of London not the Mumbai rag Times of India). Shahrukh Khan minced no words about America in his interview with Anil Sinanan, Times Bollywood Film Critic: I don’t like America. […]
Pakistanis have dealt a crushing defeat to dictator and President Pervez Musharraf in the elections held Monday. Many of Musharraf’s cronies were defeated in the elections. The New York Times said Monday in its online edition: From unofficial results the private news channel, Aaj Television, forecast that the Pakistan Peoples Party would win 110 seats […]