For the most part of human existence, our planet was a carnalcopia. You could screw any one without worrying about consequences. Father, mother, girl, boy, son, daughter, brother, sister, friend, foe, dog, cat, goat, uncle, aunt, buffalo (some Tamils still do it), cousin, grandma, niece, grandpa, neighbor etc, no problemo. Anybody was fair game. Game, […]
By Naveen English Vinglish (2012) Story, Screenplay, Direction: Gauri Shinde Cast: Sridevi, Mehdi Nebbou, Priya Anand, Adil Hussain From the Bollywood cesspool emerges another hideous junk called English Ving… What?? Oh No! Wait a second. That is how I habitually start the reviews of Indian films. But every once in a while there comes a […]
By SI Blog Reader AC One of the pleasures of living in Toronto is attending the aam aadmi -friendly Toronto International Film Festival – or TIFF in short – at the fag end of summer. September brings a mouth watering treat to the movie buffs of this city in the form of a virtual cornucopia […]
British writer John Lanchester puts forth a riveting indictment of present-day London in his new novel Capital. By London, we mean a city where clueless people in the financial sector make obscene sums through reckless bets, where greed runs rampant at all level of society, drunkenness is the norm, conspicuous consumption a ritual and high […]
Men in the U.S. who have sex with men are the most vulnerable group, most at risk, when it comes to getting HIV infections. According to AIDS statistics put out by the U.S. government, men who have sex with men accounted for 61% of all new HIV infections in the U.S. in 2009. Source: AIDS.gov […]
Dharun Ravi’s parents Ravi Pazhani and Sabitha Pazhani lashed out at the media in the Middlesex County courthouse today during the sentencing hearing of their son in the Tyler Clementi webcam spying case. Addressing Judge Glenn Berman in the New Jersey court, Dharun’s father Ravi Pazhani said: Prosecutors are saying this trial is not about […]