(for SI Blog Reader Twig) Twits and Twigs have more in common than four alphabets. Both also lack the gene for good taste, and share the inability to separate wheat from chaff. At the repeated urging of SI Blog reader Twig, I watched the Tamil film Mahanadi (1994) last night. Mahanadi has often been hailed […]
Nothing shakes humans like murder or attempted murder. No, nothing comes even remotely close. As the escapee of a likely violent attack on a recent dark, rainy evening (December 14), I should know how chilling en ce moment, and thrilling in retrospect, the experience can be. Whether the victims are carefully chosen or random, murder […]
Rahul Gandhi is undoubtedly the Abhishek Bachchan of Indian politics, a lobotomized Duffer blessed enough to be born into the right Indian family. Narendra Modi, the business-friendly leader of Gujarat, justly earned the title Hitler of Indian Politics when he turned a blind eye to the massacre and pogrom of Muslims in his state. And […]
Tell me the movies people watch and I’ll tell you what kind of people they are. Take for instance Dhoom 3, the latest in a long line of mediocre offerings from Bollywood. In a brazen acknowledgment of their classlessness, Indian-Americans swarmed to the theatres this weekend to gawk at Aamir and Katrina in Dhoom 3, […]
Aamir Khans’ scowling mien, the deafening vroom, vroom of BMW motorbike ads, repeated slow motion frames and the lobotomized duffer Abhishek Bachchan’s sophomoric acting are the sum and substance of the Bollywood revenge tale Dhoom 3. After a young kid’s father (Jackie Shroff) commits suicide when a Chicago bank forecloses on papa’s (most inappropriately named) […]
(Thanks to SI Blog’s U.S. Reader aaa001) NYC Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, in the eye of a diplomatic storm between India and the U.S. over her alleged Visa Fraud crimes, won two lotteries early in life: 1. Birth as a Scheduled Caste a.k.a. Dalit, a cornucopia that keeps on giving till death in modern India. […]