Gamer’s Bin – An Interesting Forum
Having recently acquired a Wii, I have been looking online for the various games, devices and other options available. While searching the internet, I discovered a vibrant gamers’ community at gamersbin.com, and found interesting information on not only the games related to various home video consoles, but even on games that are played in parties. [...]
Google TV 3.1 – A Critical Review
Last Wednesday (7-Dec-11), Google TV announced on its blog that “all units of the Logitech Revue™ will begin to receive an over-the-air (OTA) update of the new Google TV software”. This update was much awaited and several weeks later than the update was announced for the other Google TV device – the Sony. Anyway, my [...]
Guzaarish – 100 Gram Film
Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Guzaarish is on Netflix, and I just watched it. I felt better having watched it at home because in a theatre I would have walked out feeling cheated. The movie does have its plus points and I will come to them, but one big plus was that it was mercifully less than [...]
Jaime Pressly is Engaged to Simran Singh
According to this People magazine story updated a few hours ago, Jaime Pressly (best known as Joy on the NBC sitcom My Name Is Earl (she won an Emmy for it) has got engaged to Simran Singh, an entertainment lawyer. The name Simran Singh seems to be of Indian origin (Sikh or Hindu), but at [...]
Led Zeppelin's mis-titled Kashmir
“Kashmir” is one of the words I google quite frequently for news and other information, since this refers to my lost motherland. Everytime I google it, one or two links to English rock band Led Zeppelin’s song titled Kashmir always appear on the first page. Since I am not a great connoisseur of Western music [...]
An Indian Tribute to Bob Dylan
Caught this excellent story on NPR’s All Things Considered today. So, there is this group of Bob Dylan fans in Shillong who make have been making a point to celebrate Bob Dylan’s birthday every year for the last 37 years. Read and listen to the story here, and get the audio here. This was my [...]
Anoop Back with a Bang
Anoop Desai was great this week. My skeptical attitude in last week’s post about Anoop Desai’s re-entry into American Idol has proven wrong. He got mauled by the judges last week, but survived in audience voting. This week, he was back with a bang. This was country music week, and his song was liked well [...]
Anoop Desai is Back, but is he?
I have not been watching American Idol regularly, but seeing desi kid Anoop Desai on the show had sparked some interest in me. Then in last week’s episode, I turned the TV off when he was not one of the top twelve chosen. Turns out, moments later the judges had decided to make it a [...]
How is Slumdog an Indian Movie?
Congratulations to the team of Slumdog Millionaire for winning eight Academy Awards. Well, with all the hype that was built leading up to the Oscars, I think everyone expected it. Good job, but I don’t understand why Anil Kapoor is jumping up and down. Yesterday, he was calling it an Indian movie, becaue it was about the Indian people and had Indian people in it.
Will the next Indian Idol be a Kashmiri?
Today, an enthusiastic member of my community sent a link to this BBC news item around: Indian Idol creates Kashmir stir. Her accompanying message said, “This is great news!”. It made me happy too. Hundreds of Kashmiri kids had lined up for a chance to be the next Indian Idol. They had flocked to the [...]
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