The Great Ganesha

Now this caught me completely by surprise. I’ve heard of people running through the freezing Arctic, through the Gobi desert, hell even doing an ultramarathon through Death Valley in July. But this is something else. Our very own Sunita Williams, astronaut desiordinaire, is going to run the Boston Marathon in space! Sunita Williams, 41, a [...]

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It’s been a long, hard two weeks, guys. Lots of traveling (too much, in fact) up and down the Pacific coast. We went from San Francisco to Orange County (yup, the OC), back to San Francisco and then up to Seattle. Even spotted a Microsoft mom there, at the airport. You know – sari’d, sweater’d [...]

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Ok, not Ibiza, but folks, I am off to LA for the rest of the week. I don’t plan to visit Disneyland, I don’t plan to collect $200 and I will certainly not pass ‘Go’. Ok, maybe I’ll pass ‘Go’, but none of that other stuff that the regular riffraff indulge in. Anyhoo, the bottomline [...]

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? Indians smell. That’s a fact. Hell, everybody smells. But Indian cops take body odour to a whole other level. Can’t really blame them – being stuck in the heat, on their feet the whole day. And then driving through all that air pollution and grime on their two-wheelers doesn’t help either. However, the Gujjus [...]

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After reading my review of 13 (Tzameti) (originally written for Thirsty magazine), a reader sent me an email to let me know about a MySpace blog dedicated to the movie. On that blog was this YouTube video that parodied the movie. It’s called Beer Hunter. Interesting… If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe [...]

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[Originally on Blogcritics and Desicritics] I just saw The Departed. A few months late and a few dollars short (thanks to Netflix) but it was on purpose, because I wanted to watch Infernal Affairs first. I’m glad I waited. It?s unfortunate that Martin Scorsese has resorted to making big budget blockbusters in the last few [...]

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Mira Nair’s The Namesake follows the life of Ashoke Ganguli (played superbly by Irrfan Khan) as he goes to the US to get a Ph.D., and returns to look for a wife in Calcutta. He finds Ashima (portrayed excellently by Tabu), they have an arranged marriage, replete with all the colors and exotica of an [...]

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We are all voyeurs. Why else do we watch movies? Sure, there’s the escapism, the pleasure of being moved emotionally and the satisfaction of knowing that sometimes, the good guys do win. But at the bottom of it all, we like to see how others live their lives. We enjoy the act of watching others [...]

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Ok. Breathe. I’m still alive. If you’d asked me that an hour ago, I’d have probably had my doubts. I’m driving back from doing some errands this morning, and I am cut off by this kid in a tiny, shiny Toyota convertible. He pops out of his parking spot without even looking for who’s coming [...]

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John Inman of the long-running Brit-Com Are You Being Served? has died at age 71. He played the flamboyant menswear salesman who’s catchphrase “I’m Free!” entered into pop culture. Says, the Beeb: John Inman, who has died in a London hospital aged 71, belonged to an era of comedy which shunned satire for broad slapstick [...]

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