British Airways is playing unfare with desi travelers in the U.S. Folks, British Airways made a big-time error in its fares to India from the U.S. but refuses to take responsibility for the mistake by doing the right thing. A desi travel agent in New Jersey says that this past Friday British Airways was showing round […]
App Store, Apple’s digital media application warehouse for its iPhone and iPod devices, continues to soar. Apple is tooting its horn that downloads from its App Store now exceeds 2 billion. The number of applications in the App Store has increased to 85,000. App Store applications are in 20 categories including games, business, news, sports, […]
Recommended by (halfMonkHalfHitman and rakeshbaba) We’ve watched very few Kannada movies in our life. As most SI readers know by now, Hindi, Tamil, English and now foreign language films have been the mainstay of our filmi entertainment. So, when SI readers repeatedly brought up the Kannada film Mungaru Male, we were intrigued as to what […]
First came the illegal immigrants on the Mayflower (1620) and hundreds of other rickety ships. Then came the United States of America, 156 years later. Like it or not, illegal immigration is an inalienable part of our heritage. If you pore deep into our history, you can’t but smell the sweat of our illegal forbears, […]
Many years ago as we were desultorily walking down Gerard St W in Toronto, we espied an used bookstore (not far from the intersection with Yonge St). We stepped into the tiny store and to our surprise, the first book we picked up was a collection of short stories by Rabindranath Tagore. Titled Hungry Stones […]
Here’s a Russian joke about Americans told by a shock jock host on a Siberian talk radio program. Why do American men want to be present when their wives are in childbirth? Answer:Â Because maybe they weren’t present during conception. Source: Travels in Siberia II by Ian Frazier, New Yorker August 10 & 17, 2009 […]