(For SI blog reader unknownvirus) At last. At last, we watched The White Ribbon (Das weiße Band), a movie we’d been planning on seeing for several weeks but could manage only this past Sunday in Philadelphia. By now, the chattering classes must surely have heard of this German film, which won the prestigious Palme d’Or […]
Hey, do you think Indians will ever ‘get it’ that all flashing images on a screen don’t a movie make. Attuned as desis are to watching the mindnumbing Bollywood junk, they have no benchmark or conception of quality films. This post is part of our self-assigned Herculean mission to expose the unwashed masses to quality […]
Folks, the 35th instalment of Incredible India will focus on the plight of the common man in India at the hands of the powers that be. Here’s one particularly sad account. * Security forces around Sonia Gandhi’s pet poodle Manmohan Singh may have caused the death of a critically ill kidney patient in Chandigarh earlier […]
I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. I am then never less alone than when alone. – William Hazlitt in the essay On Going a Journey p.140 in Hazlitt: Selected Essays, edited by George Sampson (Cambridge University Press, 1963)
What a shame. 😉 Popular classifieds site Craigslist is putting an end to its Erotic Services ads under pressure from law enforcement authorities. In its place, an Adults section will come up where the ads have to be manually approved by Craigslist staff. As all but the complete imbeciles know, those Craigslist Erotic Services ads […]
IIT Kharagpur alumni and quality guru Subir Chowdhury has won the ‘Outstanding American by Choice‘ award handed out by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service to recognize the outstanding achievements of naturalized U.S. citizens. Here’s what the 42-year-old Subir said on hearing the news of the award: Whatever I have dreamed, America has always […]