Watching George Clooney on screen after seeing our Bollywood bozos like Ajith, Vijay, Shahrukh Khan, Salman Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Priyanka Chopra et al prance around like hippopotamuses in heat in movie after movie is like the sight of water to a lost traveler in the vastness of the merciless Sahara. “Do I look […]
One of India’s most beautiful women and one of India’s most mediocre actress converge in the Bollywood historical romance Jodhaa Akbar (click here to read the review). And unless you’ve just come in from Mars, you know we are talking about Aishwarya Rai, or Ash as she is popularly referred to by the fawning Indian […]
Last Pongal, Vijay’s Pokiri and Ajith’s Aalwar duked it out. Pokiri won a handsome victory while Aalwar failed miserably. This Pongal, will it be Vikram’s Bheema that’ll take home the laurels or is there a dark horse? After all, Kaalai (Simbhu), Vaazhthugal (Madhavan, Bhavana), Pazhani (Bharath), Pirivom Santhippom (Cheran, Sneha), Pidichirukku (Ashok), Indralogathil Na Azhagappan (Vadivelu) are […]
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting piece on the plight of India’s Brahmin caste in its Saturday edition. Once a privileged caste closely aligned with the rulers of India for several centuries, the Brahmins have fallen on tough times over the last few decades owing to the reservation policies (affirmative action programs) of the […]
The growing popularity of online bus ticketing web sites like Redbus.in, Tickevala.com, Yatra.com, Theluxurybuses.com, Abhibus.com, Indiabusticket.com and Checkouttrip.com is spurring online travel company Makemytrip.com to join the crowd. Makemytrip.com’s Chief Marketing Officer Sachin Bhatia told The Economic Times: The online bus-ticketing business is likely to witness robust growth in the coming years. We are aggressively planning to […]
One of the most fascinating books on India is the work Hindu Manners, Customs and Ceremonies by that Christian bigot Abbe Dubois, who traveled widely in South India in the late 18th century and early 19th century. A resident of India from 1792-1823, Duboi, a French man, had the opportunity to observe the customs and […]