There cannot be a pinch in death More sharp than this is. – Imogen in Cymbeline (Act 1, Scene 1) Who would have thought Vijay’s character in Madurey would succeed so grandly, so effortlessly and, Holy Christ, so quickly, where Martin Luther King, Lyndon Johnson, the marchers at Selma and countless other civil rights activists […]
Update: The U.S. House has voted in favor of the Health-care Reform Bill with 219 Democrats voting in favor and all (178) Republican Congressmen voting against the reform along with 34 Democratic traitors. President Obama will soon sign the historic legislation. 🙂 Many Americans are worried that a national health care system with universal coverage […]
It’s 10:19PM ET now and President Barack Obama’s Health-Care Reform bill will soon go to a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives where the Democrats have the required votes to carry the day. After the reconciliation process with the Senate version, the bill will go to President Obama for signature and then become law. […]
by SI blog reader Racer44 (Readers: SI’s comments follow this essay) Having completed over 92 years since its inception (the first silent Tamil movie Keechaka Vadham was released in 1917), it is only obvious that we ask ourselves, where is Tamil Cinema headed? (ignoring, of course, naysayers like SI who say that it’s headed from […]
(For SI Blog reader Kreacher) Kreacher, did we need the Pig, Dip in the Pool and The Landlady in these short winter days of our life. Whatever possessed you to recommend Roald Dahl’s stories to us. Well, we won’t hold you completely responsible. You see our appetite for Dahl’s short stories was also whetted by […]
Make no mistake, schmucks. * My Name is Khan is not in the Forrest Gump league (even if the first person narrative style going back years into the life story of our hero Rizwan Khan is reminiscent of Forrest’s and even if there is a Jenny in the Hindi film). * No, My Name is […]