The Great Ganesha

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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