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Month: June 2007

Review: The Reluctant Fundamentalist

June 11, 2007 by Surya

It had been a long time since I had finished a book in one sitting, until I read Mohsin Hamid’s recently published The Reluctant Fundamentalist. It would be easy to attribute it to the rather short length of the novel, but it is much more than that. The narrative makes you feel like part of …

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We are the good guys

June 8, 2007 by Surya

Chek out this nice piece in Salon by David Silverman – an honest article about a small typesetter in Iowa going out of business thanks to the jobs outsourced to India I would love to agree with CNN’s Lou Dobbs that by exporting jobs to India, greedy American corporations are killing independent businesses. I could …

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Don’t we love Sarah Silverman!

January 2, 2008 by Surya

Don’t we love Sarah Silverman!

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Bluffmaster

June 2, 2007 by Surya

Bluffmaster, I was called Placing the cards, that’s all it took An ace when it should be a king A queen for a nine An eight for a ten A puny two for the regal prince. Keep a straight face And no one will ever know No blink of the eye No twitch of the …

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