By golly, SI well-wisher and Iselin, NJ travel agent Sonny Chatrath (Sonny is Americanese for Gurpreet Singh) is in the movies. A Bollywood film, guys. Not an ad film or documentary. A full-fledged Bollywood movie (according to an e-mail we got from a Yahoo Groups list). No less. The movie is 9 Eleven, where Sonny […]
Achtung, achtung: If you still have not purchased the iPhone 4, do not take the plunge yet. At least, not until you have thoroughly researched the growing incidence of problems associated with the iPhone 4. Success seems to have gone to the heads of the c*nts at Apple and they’re getting downright sloppy with their […]
You schmucks can scream Mera Bharat Mahaan and India Shining till you are hoarse but India stands tall on the global stage only for all the wrong things. Like for instance, travel diarrhea, rape, frequent random violence, treatment of minorities, extra-judicial murders by the police (encounters) et al. In this post, we intend to examine […]
In the East none but Europeans and native princes seem well fed. – Irish writer Maud Power in Wayside Story (Maud’s 1905 travelogue based on her travels in India. Published by Downey and Co in 1907), P.56
People outside India are often dumbstruck to learn that millions of poor souls sleep on the pavement in India’s commercial capital Bombay (now renamed Mumbai) night after night after night. But things have been like that in Bombay for well over a 100 years. As darkness shrouds the city and the haves gather into their […]
A missile the size of the Chrysler building (in NYC) carrying deadly, highly combustible chemicals is hurtling down the track at 70mph toward highly populated areas. What you gonna do now? As one of the characters laments: Too much train traveling too fast. Blessed by the Lord Yipee, the Gods finally smiled on us last […]