Bollywood movie Dus Kahaniyan did not set the U.S. box afire but didn’t do that badly either considering it’s an offbeat Hindi movie. Dus Kahaniyan rolled in at No-25 at the U.S. box office for the December 7-9, 2007 weekend with a gross of $176,726. Released in 55 theaters in the U.S, Dus Kahaniyan had an average […]
Like an uxorious husband, we are inordinately fond of Latin. We’ve been dropping Latin phrases into our spoken and written English for as long as we can remember. Besides making us seem smarter than we really are, Latin has a certain cachet that plain vanilla English lacks. SearchIndia.com will bring you some of our favorite Latin expressions. […]
Vikram Pandit is the favorite to be named as CEO of struggling financial giant Citigroup. Reporting that Citigroup would name a CEO soon, the Wall Street Journal (subscription required) said in its Saturday edition: The front-runner is Vikram Pandit, who currently oversees Citigroup’s investment bank and alternative-investments businesses, the people said. That would fill the […]
With the first phase of elections in Gujarat less than a week away, it’s anybody’s guess whether Dr.Death a.k.a. Narendra Modi can trump India’s Italian Bahu a.k.a Sonia Gandhi. While Chief Minister Narendra Modi is in the dock over communal violence in 2002 that led to the massacre of many Muslims in Gujarat, his arch […]
If you really, really care about your life, you’d better read this piece. No kidding. This is scary stuff. Although we’d registered Dr.Atul Gawande’s name on the periphery of our consciousness a while back, his new piece in the December 10, 2007 issue of the New Yorker was the first time we took a dekko at […]
If you love movies as much as we do, you’ll love the book Eyewitness Companions – Film. For movie buffs, the 501-page book provides a nice introduction to the films business and whets the appetite for more indepth reading. Besides giving us an overview of the Story of Cinema from 1895 to the present, this book also […]