Potpourri:
Film set in malabar, an emerald paradise.
Ismail Merchant....film: Cotton Mary. Set in Post-colonial Malabar in 1950s.
Story of Anglo-Indian sisters Cotton Mary, Blossom and niece Rosie.
Blossom is a wet nurse in a British alms house.
Cotton Mary brings a white English baby to Blossom for wet-nursing, because the mother is unable to do so.
Blossom nurses the baby lovingly, wanting to be ALL ENGLISH.
Cotton Mary moves in with the grateful English mother LILY as an ayah. Cotton mary Tries to create friction between the butler and the English woman. Her scheme revealed, LILY goes to England.
Cotton Mary played by Madhur Jaffrey. Lily played by Greta Sacchi. Blossom played by Neen Guota Niece played by Sakina Jaffrey.
Malabar portrayed as an emerald paradise.
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Rajiv the pilot and crew hijack millions
The main players in the Bofors kickback scandal are the late Rajesh Gandhi, Ottavio Quattrochi, , arms agent Win Chadha, former defense secretary S.k.Batnagar and former Bofor?s president martin Ardbo..
Rajive is dead. Ottavio lives in kula Lumpur and refused cooperation with CBI. Chadha lives in Dubai.
Govt of India stipulated that that should be no intermediaries between Bofors and India. Chadha and Quottrachi received and deposited in their names money given to them by Bofors in the Swiss bank accounts. The largess was moved from one account to another to another to avoid detection by both the Italian OQ and Chadha..
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Paki Punks chat up Indian girls and beat up Indian boys
In London, it is very common for the paki boys to gatecrash Indian functions, such as navarathri, Indian dance events for the dual purpose of chatting up Indian girls and engage in beating up Indian boys who come to protect the girls. In one of those confrontations, a paki youth has grievously slashed an Indian youth with a sword..
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From Chennai IIT, a billionaire
Gururaj Deshpande of Sycamore is a graduate of IIT Chennai and a Ph.D from Queens university in Canada.
Compaq takes a licking and keeps on ticking
Compaq has offered to the Indian Army computer hardware , handheld systems and notebooks which are guaranteed not to break, if they are dropped, kicked, thrown, dunked, set on fire or thrown into deep freeze (at temp from 4- 120 degrees F.) |
