The Great Ganesha

It being Halloween tomorrow, Google has decided to celebrate by changing its little Street View fellow into a witch. Now, you can fly on a broom-stick to whichever street you want to view.

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No – I’m not insulting anyone here, so calm down. I suffer from the occasional migraine myself, and was intrigued by this new treatment which I read in (of all things) Men’s Health. It advocates crushing a chili in your hand and literally, rubbing it into your nostrils. There’s even an all-natural nasal spray that [...]

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This month’s Portfolio magazine has a write-up on Mukesh Ambani, partial heir to Dhirubhai’s empire and India’s richest Indian (the world’s richest Indian being Lakshmi Mittal). Mukesh beats out his brother Anil by a scant $1.9 billion. So close! The article discusses, amongst other things, Dhirubhai, the Reliance empire, oil refining and more. They spend [...]

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If you’re Indian and were at a reasonable age in the ’80s (4 years and up) then it’s most likely that you remember the 1982 Asian Games that were held in Delhi. You probably even remember the mascot – an elephant named Appu. Well, the other day, I was having a coffee at Ritual Coffee [...]

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John Roberts made the cover of Time this week, in an article that asks about the relevancy of the Supreme Court today. But that’s not what I’m writing about. Is it me, or does John Roberts look like Greg Kinnear? Dammit, every time I look at Roberts, I think it’s Kinnear!

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Durga Puja in Calcutta is like Ganesh Chaturthi in Bombay. A several-days-long religious festival, filled with increasingly complex and creative idols of Durga (a.k.a. Temple of Doom‘s Kali) for the former and, as I had posted earlier, Ganesha for the latter. It’s a huge event for Bengalis, whom urban slang refers to (affectionately, of course) [...]

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Sci Fi Tech – the Sci Fi channel’s official blog, has an interview with a very special member of the Geek Squad. The Geek Squad are those brand-manager-manufactured geeks who pretend to know everything about technology in the Best Buy ads and help you resolve your email problems. So, in order to vamp up their [...]

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Picture Source: IMdB In an interview with the cast and filmmakers of the upcoming Coen Brothers’ film, No Country For Old Men, Javier Bardem (and the Coens) talk about how his hair came to look the way it was in the movie. Lisa Schwarzbaum (Moderator): I think there are two things that dominate this film [...]

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A little late in posting, but here goes anyway. Last Sunday’s NYT had another feature on India, this time on its burgeoning art scene: … the air is heavy with the smell of gasoline and flowers, you are approached by women begging for money and food. Men shout invitations to enter their carpet shops or [...]

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Picture Source: Manhattan Elsewhere The wife pointed me to overstated.net, a blog by a Bay Area software engineer. I realize how exciting that sounds, but there’s more. The guy has listed, for every SF neighbourhood (left), a counterpart in NYC (right). For instance: Financial District Midtown North Beach Little Italy Union Square Soho Soma Tribeca [...]

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