Desi In Toronto

Archive for January 2007

Conservatism

Posted by: agsharma on: January 28, 2007

Aah!! Conservatives. No matter how much you hide, the true conservative nature always srings forth. Here is Harper’s administration demonstrating their maturity: The Conservatives unveiled three new television ads Sunday attacking Liberal leader Stéphane Dion, a day before members of Parliament return to the House of Commons. They also criticize Dion’s record as environment minister, [...]

Posted by: agsharma on: January 28, 2007

I know that bollywood usually makes real woozy movies but over the last few years the industry has started to make a real comeback. And one of the prominent actors participating in this resurgence is the legend Amitabh Bachchan. The doyen of Indian cinema. He made a comeback into cinema more out of need than [...]

Genius Or Lucky

Posted by: agsharma on: January 27, 2007

There had been rumblings in the IT industry that the Moore’s Law in the chip industry is now going to be invalid. As most of you know that the Moore’s Law is: The most popular formulation is of the doubling of the number of transistors on integrated circuits every 18 months. At the end of [...]

Ho…Hmmm

Posted by: agsharma on: January 27, 2007

A rant….. Another racial incident on TV. The popular British reality show “Celebrity Big Brother” has had plenty of disputes in the past, but none of them have sparked more of a debate outside the walls of the house than the past week’s events. Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty has been seen as a victim of [...]

Lack Of News?

Posted by: agsharma on: January 14, 2007

This has made news 24/7 for the last few days in the US What? No more missing white chicks? <Link> The families of two boys kidnapped four years apart and found in the same suburban St. Louis apartment said Saturday their rescue was the end of a nightmare. The boys’ parents clung to them at [...]

Only In USA

Posted by: agsharma on: January 14, 2007

<Link> A 27-year-old mother of three has died of water intoxication after competing in a Sacramento radio station contest where people attempted to drink as much water as they could without peeing. Jennifer Strange was found dead in her suburban Rancho Cordova home shortly after participating in the “Hold Your Wee for a Wii” contest, [...]

Razzle Dazzle – Indian Style

Posted by: agsharma on: January 14, 2007

So, a movie from Bollywood was screened for the first time in North America. Two of Indian cinema’s biggest stars took the red carpet in Toronto on Thursday night, thrilling South Asian film fans and sparking many to dub the city Bollywood West.……………… Organizers billed Thursday evening’s premiere as the first time a Bollywood film [...]

Today’s Youth

Posted by: agsharma on: January 14, 2007

This is a really good article on today’s youth. Teen angst is nothing new, and neither is rebellion. And many indicators show that most young Canadians are doing quite well — graduation rates are up, and teenage pregnancies down. But a significant minority has gone another way. Social shifts are partly to blame, but alarming [...]

Who Is Your Daddy Now?

Posted by: agsharma on: January 1, 2007

This is a description of Saddam Hussein’s execution. The curious part came somewhere in the middle of the article. The general prosecutor asked Mr. Hussein to whom he wanted to give his Koran. He said Bandar, the son of Awad al-Bandar, the former chief justice of the Revolutionary Court who was also to be executed [...]


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