On Diwali ….standing on the sidewalk…. I felt the life I was living in America was not important, that no matter how rich America was, how wonderful it was to have cartoons on TV, only life in India mattered. – Ajay in Family Life by Akhil Sharma, P.35 It’s been a while since SI orgasmed […]
Hindu-born Christian convert Piyush ‘Bobby’ Jindal, the Indian whacko who wants abortion to be disallowed without exception even in rape or incest cases or if the mother’s health is at grave risk, has developed a bad case of Presidential itch. In a desperate bid to gain attention of the media, the Republican base and Republican […]
I picked up 1,227 Quite Interesting Facts on a lark. It was lying forlorn in the new books section of my local library casting a beseeching “Pick Me Up” look in my direction. I’m glad I picked it up because the book is a cornucopia of interesting ‘facts.’ Now I have no way of knowing […]
Brahmins are one of nature’s most fascinating, most bizarre, most diabolical creatures. Obsessed with weird rituals, an abiding fondness for in-breeding, an unquenchable thirst for Cow-ca-Cola, a sneering contempt for eating meat and a diet limited to plant products, the scheming Brahmins are a tiny group geographically restricted to the barbarous land mass designated in […]
What if it had been your child, Cate Blanchett? Louis CK? Alec Baldwin? What if it had been you, Emma Stone? Or you, Scarlett Johansson? You knew me when I was a little girl, Diane Keaton. Have you forgotten me? Woody Allen is a living testament to the way our society fails the survivors of […]
Challenging times call for a full reboot of the system. Alas, all that Microsoft got in its new leader was a minor update. Satya Nadella, a Telugu bidda who studied at a capitation fee college (Manipal Institute of Technology) and bears a lackluster record, has been named the new CEO of Microsoft. Nadella, 47, also […]