The time has come, believes Matthew Schneeberger, when India must dig up geniuses that lie unknown, untapped, languishing in its villages.
Inception will should best film and best director nominations for the Academy Awards. Deservedly.
The movie, which despite its slick image and incredibly beautiful stars is not what it claims to be. It's not a great action movie. Not a great love story. Not even a noteworthy Indian contribution to global cinema.
The film quickly drifts into the absurd and unbelievable, and stays there throughout, with a plot riddled with inconsistencies and gaps that otherwise would be fatal if Chadha hadn't set out to be so self-mocking.
Just a week ago, the leader of the United Kingdom's opposition Conservative Party was an overwhelming favourite to topple Gordon Brown's ruling Labour government in the 2010 UK general elections on April 6.
Given his tremendous achievement -- only seven Indians and people of Indian-origin have been honoured with a Nobel Prize -- it was no surprise that, even during a year of exceptional achievement by members of the Indian-American community, Dr Ramakrishnan would be named India Abroad Person of the Year 2009.
Everyone is resigned to inefficient and corrupt governance. The contempt of authorities for the public at large is almost palpable. Everyone jokes how the municipal corporation is easily the world's biggest wastrel. But no one seems prepared or capable to do anything about it. How did these guys get so autocratic? Isn't India a representative republic? Can nothing be done at the ballot box?
Deepak Kumar, a Commissioner of Customs in Mumbai, is filing a complaint against ITC ltd for its tobacco products, which Kumar claims gave him throat cancer.
'It just makes terrorism all the more real, to actually see the bullet holes.' A delegation of young American politicians experience India.
The South Asian community in America has its share of idiosyncrasies. Two expats use humour to capture the Diaspora experience, discovers Matthew Schneeberger.
Palash Mehrotra, 33-year-old author of 'Eunuch Park: Fifteen Stories of Love and Destruction', on writing and being published in India.
The WWE's Kane is in Mumbai to meet and greet WWE fans in India. Highlights from his entertaining press conference.
Amit Varma, who publishes the popular India Uncut blog, speaks to rediff.com about his debut novel, My Friend Sancho.
Slumdog Millionaire is contrived, pretentious, absurd, hollow, inauthentic, a pseudo-statement about social justice. And yet today the film stands on the precipice of Hollywood's highest honour, the Academy Award for Best Picture.
In the wake of 26/11 terror attacks, Mumbai's party crowd is staying in this New Year's Eve. Find out way.
Had the terrorists come five hours earlier, I wouldn't be here talking to you," says Gregory David Roberts, the Australian author of the novel Shantaram, oft-considered a foreigner's Ode to Mumbai. "We were here in the evening, then left for the airport, as we had to fly to Australia that night for business."
An account on how traders' lif has changed at the New Oberoi Shopping Centre.
The attack on the Taj changed the way Rahul Welde looks at life.
"The gunshots were getting louder and louder and the floor and ceiling were actually shaking from the blasts. I knew if we stayed put that, eventually, they'd find us. As an entrepreneur, you learn to think that nothing is impossible. The word 'No' doesn't register. So I asked myself, 'How do we do this?' and 'What would Richard Branson do?'" says British businessman Deepak Kuntawala.
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