Ram, Sita, Lakshman & Hanuman at Durga Mandir, Fairfax

Hindu temples are proliferating across the U.S. We’ve seen them on the West Coast, East Coast and quite a few in the mid-west as well.

Even a small state like Delaware has two Hindu temples - Lakshmi Temple in Hockessin and the Swaminarayan Temple in New Castle.

We wonder how long these temples can sustain themselves at their current rate of proliferation. For a list of Hindu Temples in USA, see HinduMandir.us.

Reviewer’s Summary - Pitiful, Boring Movie

Language: Hindi
Year: Released on April 27, 2007 in the U.S.
Actors: Saif Ali Khan, Rani Mukerji, Javed Jaffrey, Angelina Idnani and Ali Haji
Director: Siddharth Anand
Producer: Aditya Chopra
Screenplay: Habib Faisal
Dialogs: Habib Faisal
Music: Vishal G Shekhar
Lyrics: Javed Akhtar

Last week the Hollywood mavens brought us a delightful movie in Fracture (featuring Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling).

This week the Bollywood bozos dumped yet another disgusting, amateurish film in our laps - this time, the unwatchable flick is Ta Ra Rum Pum.

Bereft of any artistic merit or entertainment possibilities, Ta Ra Rum Pum is a feeble shot at movie-making.

Ta Ra Rum Pum’s incompetence is not limited to the story, acting and directing. It encompasses the below average music as well.

Shot mostly in New York, Ta Ra Rum Pum is the effete story of a young Formula race driver Continue Reading…

Our second favorite Newspaper Wall Street Journal (NYT is our first love) is in deep waters

Those of us looking for famed investor Warren Buffett to save the Dow Jones publishing group, which includes the fine Wall Street Journal (subscription required), from Rupert Murdoch’s grubby hands must now turn our sights elsewhere.

At the annual general meeting of his company Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett made it clear that he is not buying any more newspapers.

Buffett also doesn’t blame the sales and circulation declines on the dual class shareholder structure in place at major newspapers like New York Times, Dow Jones and Washington Post but sees technological and cultural changes in play.

Buffett is a director at the Washington Post Company and Berkshire Hathaway owns Buffalo News, a regional paper in upstate New York.