While we’ve encountered hundreds of actresses in reel life, Rajshree is one of only two Bollywood actresses we’ve met and talked to in real life (we met both when we used to live in Los Angeles).

Daughter of the famous Hindi filmmaker V.Shantaram, Rajshree was a dazzling beauty in her youth. After falling in love with an American gora, Rajshree bid goodbye to movies and moved to the U.S.

Although long past her prime, Rajshree was still pretty when we met her at a party in L.A.

One of our favorite Rajshree songs is Duniya Ki Sair from Around the World with the legendary Raj Kapoor.

Click on the below YouTube image to watch/listen to the song.

 
Rajshree and Raj Kapoor in Around the World
(Pix: YouTube)

For millennia, Indians have been buggering each other, figuratively.

But now they can do it, literally.

And legally too (this means homosexuality is no longer ground for being carted off to jail where you become the lover-boy for stronger male prisoners).

The New York Times has just put out a story that an Indian court has struck down Section 377 (dealing with the gay sex ban) as unconstitutional.

Here’s the excerpt from the NYT story:

In a landmark ruling Thursday that could usher in an era of greater freedom for gay men and lesbians in India, New Delhi’s highest court decriminalized homosexuality.

“Discrimination is antithesis of equality,” the judges of the Delhi High Court wrote in a 105-page decision that is the first in India to directly guarantee rights for gay people. “It is the recognition of equality which will foster dignity of every individual,” the decision said.

Homosexuality has been illegal in India since 1861, when British rulers codified a law prohibiting “carnal intercourse against the order of nature.”

We’ve never understood this hullabaloo about homosexuality between consenting adults.

Why should it be anyone’s business in which hole his neighbor drills his nail or whether a child has two mommies?

Our philosophy in life is Screw and Let Screw, a modification of the old Live and Let Live.

Today, we can all proudly say - Mera Bharat Mahaan.

No man is truly great, who is great only in his life-time. The test of greatness is the page of history.

- William Hazlitt in the essay The Indian Jugglers p.134 in Hazlitt: Selected Essays, edited by George Sampson
(Cambridge University Press, 1963)

Firefox has been our preferred browser for quite some time now on all our computers.

So it was a no-brainer that we’d look at Firefox 3.5 (a key update to the browser released yesterday) sooner rather than later.

Here are some of the enhancements in Firefox 3.5: improved JavaScript performance, a new Private Browsing mode, native support for open video and audio and Location Aware Browsing. You can read details in the Firefox 3.5 Release Notes.

The folks behind Firefox claim that the update is twice as fast as Firefox 3 and ten times faster than Firefox 2 on complex web sites.

A short while ago, we downloaded Firefox 3.5 on our Windows XP laptop. The whole process was smooth and took only a couple of minutes.

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Only in America, folks. Only in America.

We bail out the shitty bank oops Citibank now known as Citigroup with tens of billions of tax-payer dollars and the incompetent swines turn and raise interest rates on credit card holders.

What the f**k is Obama doing. Walking the new dog that he has no time to respond to desi butcher’s dirty tactics?

Here, read this excerpt from the Financial Times:

Citigroup has sharply increased interest rates on up to 15m US credit card accounts just months before curbs on such rises come into effect, in a move that could fuel political anger at the treatment of consumers by bailed-out banks.

People close to the situation said that Citi, which is about to cede a 34 per cent stake to the US government as part of its latest rescue, had upped rates on between 13m and 15m credit cards it co-brands with retailers such as Sears and Macy’s.

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