Future historians will most certainly describe Pakistan’s craven surrender to the Taliban pigs in the Swat region as a Himalayan blunder. Emboldened by the surrender of Swat Valley, the Taliban has already ushered in Sharia (Islamic law) in parts of Swat and taken over the neighboring Buner district as well. How far from Buner to […]
(Thanks to satya for raising this issue) You can’t open Indian newspapers these days without reading about an Indian father raping his daughter. * First, it was the Mumbai businessman Kishore Chauhan, who was arrested a few weeks back for raping his two young daughters. The older girl (now 21) was raped for nine years while […]
The below post is from one of those e-mails that keep getting forwarded because they are interesting. It landed in our mailbox this morning courtesy of our New Jersey sardar friend (yeah, the same guy who once promised us an Incredible India tourism DVD and sent us a porn DVD…only a Sikh would do that 😉 […]
Unless you’ve just landed here from some other planet, you know that Gomorrah is the book on which the acclaimed eponymous movie is based. As the cover of the book puts it, Gomorrah is author Roberto Saviano’s ‘personal journey into the violent international empire of Naples’ organized crime.’ Known as the Camorra, the organized crime network has […]
The systemic impediments include both the legacy of racism and dramatic economic changes that have fallen with disproportionate severity on poor blacks. ….Today many ghetto residents have almost no contact with mainstream American society or the normal job market. As a result, they have developed distinctive and often dysfunctional social norms. The work ethic, investment […]
(Thanks to Sanewar and Lucifersam for recommending Gomorrah) Gomorrah (Italian) takes the gangster/Mafia genre of movies to an entirely new level. If Godfather, Scarface and even Cidade de Deus (City of God) glorified the criminals, put them up on a pedestal and made them seem almost godly despite their violence, Gomorrah knocks them off their high perch and […]