I understand this might be old news to many of you, but I found this to interesting so I thought I would share this article:
The two main child actors from “Slumdog Millionaire” are to receive new homes from the authorities after the small-budget movie swept the Oscars, winning eight Academy Awards.
The Mumbai homes will go to Rubina Ali and Azharuddin Ismail, who played the young roles of the movie’s central characters, Latika and Salim, in the rags-to-riches romance about a poor Indian boy competing for love and money on a …

It was an uneventful day full of result less meetings in Rimini. We were a bunch of businessmen from East Euope, Russia & India, representing our countries for a business event. Things were starting to get on to us, meeting loud Italian men and snooty Italian women. It was then someone floated an idea of arranging a visit to a place called “San Marino”. Even though I have been to Italy often, San Marino sounded like an unauthentic Italian Restaurant in middle lanes of Khan Market. But the idea of …

Just a few months ago, our neighbors send a team to India, of few men armed with weapons, trained to kill, live to hate and born to die. These men held hostage the Indian financial capital for 3 days, killing the elite, ending the poor, and devastating the mind of every reasonable citizen in the country. Every other blog in this country wrote a painful story of death, the cliche story of the spirit of mumbai residents, and the hatred story of our politicians. Easy crap to write I tell …

Background: Dev D is an adaptation of  the epic Indian novel called Devdas. The book is set in early 1900’s in West Bengal, in and around Calcutta, where the lead character ‘Devdas’ looses his childhood love ‘Paro’ due to circumstances, develops into an alcoholic, and finds some solace being around a sex worker ‘Chandramukhi’ , who is madly in love with him. This is the basic theme of Devdas that has been adapted at least a couple of times in bollywood. Dilip Kumar in the 1960′ and Shahrukh Khan in …

QBA is a restaurant & bar located in Connaught Place in New Delhi. I have visited the place about 3-4  times  for lunch and dinner, and each of those visits have turned out to be pretty satisfactory. It is located in the inner circle of connaught place, and is very hard to miss if you are specifically looking for it.  As you enter you can immediately feel the immense size of the place.  It is couple of floors connected by a well designed staircase. The place is very nicely done with …