Entries from June 2009

June 23, 2009

Obama, Mamta and Advani Star in 2009 Summer Releases

Mumbai/ Los Angeles. 23 June 2009.
Hollywood and Bollywood’s 2009 Summer looks hotter than ever with some of the most entertaining and daring superstars coming together for some of the most awaited releases of the year. Here’s the list:
1. Good Reason Hunting: A BJP-RSS co-production, starring yesteryear superstars LK Advani and Rajnath Singh, with Varun Gandhi, [...]

June 20, 2009

Thums Up Runs Out Of High-Rises To Make Akshay Kumar Jump From

North Korea. 20 June 2009.
India’s original bubbly, recently made famous by Dev D as a vodka-accompaniment, Thums-Up is facing tough times ahead. Already ridden with a vague, almost embarrassing punchline ( ‘Taste The Thunder’ ) and a step-motherly treatment by single-parent-company Coke ( “Amir and Hrithik for Coke and Akshay Kumar and Yuvika Chaudhury [...]

June 18, 2009

Rediff Message Board Gets Its First-Ever Decent Comment In 10 Years

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Mumbai. 18 June 2009.
Unbelievable, and many experts still say it’s a hoax, but Rediff.Com message board has finally registered a single decent comment after more than 50 Lakh comments being posted in the last 10-years of operations.
The comment in [...]

June 17, 2009

Mayawati Wakes Up As A Statue

Lucknow. 16 June 2009.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister (Behen Kumari) Mayawati today woke up as a Marble-mixed-P.O.P. statue at her Golf Club Road bungalow. Doctors and State Parks and Statues Minister Santram Srivastava were immediately rushed to the site of Mayawati’s now-statued posture. Initial reports suggest that Mayawati’s stiffened posture resembles Britney Spears’ famous ‘Gimme [...]

June 13, 2009

China Bans Public Urinals To Avoid Social Networking

Undisclosed Location. 13 June 2009.
Chinese Government, after banning You Tube, Flickr, and Twitter, has now taken ‘concrete’ steps to outlaw social networking as it existed in its most primitive form by putting an immediate ban on Public Urinals. A government website, accessible only to government officials still alive and not urinating publicly, today announced [...]

June 9, 2009

Freida Pinto Giggles At 12:34 PM

Los Angeles. 9 June 2009.
Freida Pinto, the phenomenal Latika from Danny Boyle’s seminal ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, today giggled at 12:34 p.m. on 23rd and 5th square of downtown LA. Reports suggest that it’s the first time in the history of Hollywood that a foreign-born Golden Globe Winner has giggled at that combination of time and [...]

June 6, 2009

Pratibha Patil Forgets She Is The President

New Delhi. 6 June 2009.
President Pratibha Patil, probably due to lack of media attention or too much cricket, today forgot that she herself is the President of India. Addressing the joint session of newly constituted parliament, she started her lecture by saying – “Our dear President APJ Abdul Kalam is on his way, and till [...]

June 2, 2009

Aussies Counter Charges of Bias Against Indians By Attacking Other Communities

Melbourne. 2 June 2009.
In a clear and strong rebuttal to charges of bias and prejudice against Indian students, Australian right-wingers today attacked students from other countries and communities too. In three separate incidents, twenty Sri Lankan, five Italian, and fourteen Nagorno-Karabakh Republic students were attacked and later made to sign a document stating “We were [...]