The Great Ganesha

Just came across this tidbit yesterday, from the SAJA blog forum:
Two young brothers, one of them still in college, have put Kolkata on the world?s Internet map by building the hottest online game on social networking phenomenon Facebook.
Jayant and Rajat Agarwalla have built a free online scrabble game that has 800,000 registered users on [...]

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I have to say – Indian advertisements rock. Now this may be because of a cultural bias, or because they really do kick ass. Nonetheless though, some of the adverts that I saw in India decades ago still strike a chord in a way that no ad commercial in the US has done.
And from the [...]

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Ordinarily, I’m of the opinion that graffiti is an eyesore. But this guy definitely makes you do a double-take. Some pretty amazing stuff. This one below is apparently on the Westside Crisis Clinic on Turk St. in San Fran. Check it out. [via]

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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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The 2007 World Press Photo Awards were announced today [via the BBC]. There are some absolutely brilliant shots in there, including one taken for Reuters by Akintunde Akinleye of Nigeria [link] showing a man rinsing his face after a gas pipeline explosion. Despite it’s depressing precedent, the photograph is? visually stunning in its color and [...]

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Good morning (Pacific), folks. It is that time of the month again. “What time of month?” you ask innocently. My sweet, sweet cherub, how I wish I could share your naivete. It’s the time of month when a new issue of Thirsty magazine is out on the virtual newstands. “Ohhh! That time of month!” you [...]

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The sun sets on the Sunset District in San Francisco
Taken a few minutes ago…
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This week’s Economist has an article in the ‘Books and Arts’ section about detective fiction across the globe. The article cites Raymond Chandler as creating the cool-as-ice detective character. You know, the world-weary, philosophical, alcoholic-but-alert man, with a mess of relationships in his wake. I think they put it best:
The hardboiled hero is cynical but [...]

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Folks, today I have officially begun to write for Thirsty magazine – a brand new online publication dealing with arts, media and culture in these, here fine United States.
From the magazine’s Manifesto, in the words of the auteurs themselves,
Operating from a truly virtual platform, Thirsty’s grasp starts at street level and continues underneath, where [...]

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A tasty dish of eels in chili oil, dowsed with crushed red chillies. Mmmm…
Even though I’m a pretty big foodie, I don’t usually write restaurant reviews. I guess I’m one of those people who’d rather eat the food than write about it while pretending that I’m an expert on the subject. I’m much better [...]

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