(By Naveen) All those who complain that cheap and good stuff don’t go together in life have not had a meal at Amma Unavagam (Amma Canteen). Hey, if it were up to me, I’d even add Amma Canteens to the Chennai tourist circuit (like they have these Dharavi slum tours in Mumbai, Bronx ‘ghetto’ tours […]
(Background: U.S. President Barack Obama meets new Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday, June 7 at Palm Springs in Southern California. Main item on Obama’s agenda is Chinese Cyber-Attacks on U.S. interests or what I call Cyber-Terrorism) Modern terrorists come in many guises. Osama bin Laden is merely one of many terrorist avatars. Among the deadliest […]
Tamil Nadu politician and DMK Leader M.Karunanidhi turned 90 today. And as usual, loudspeakers in Chennai and other cities in Tamil Nadu are blasting out songs cacophonous bilge extolling the “legendary virtues” of this bigamist and snollygoster. People in the know tell me that every part of Karunanidhi’s body except his brain is in a […]
Infosys co-founder N.R.Narayana Murthy has muscled back into the IT services company he co-founded 32-years back. A few hours back N.R. Narayana Murthy was named Executive Chairman and additional director of the company with immediate effect (he “retired” from Infosys in 2011). Narayana Murthy’s return was a move that was long overdue, in my not-so-humble […]
I guarantee trash loving Indian movie buffs will not be disappointed with Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani. A silly romance punctuated by tomfoolery in picturesque surroundings (Manali), heavy use of English slang (Kalki Koechlin), girls letting their pallus slide or donning mini-skirts and shorts in freezing weather (Deepika Padukone), hags lifting the skirt to display skin […]
A Republican can’t enjoy his dinner unless he knows somebody else is hungry. – Commenter ttyymmnn citing his Grandfather in a Gawker story As I once told a friend, sometimes the best part of a news story is not the story itself but lies hidden in the comments section below the story. I was reading […]