news reviews complaints talks India

Archive for September 2008

Dosa, India’s favourite food

Sep 25th, 2008 | By A Ash | Category: Featured articles, Talks

Here is the recepie for India’s favourite food.
 (Serves 2)
 Preparation time: 20 minutes
 Ingredients
100 gm rice
50 gm boiled rice
50 gm urad dal (black gram/horsebean)
5 gm channa dal (bengal gram)
1 gm methi (fenugreek) seeds
20 gm sugar
25 gm salt
15 gm rice flour
50 gm suji (semolina)
Prepartion
Soak rice and dals for 2 hours.
Blend it to make the batter.
Mix sugar, salt, suji [...]



Features that I would like to see in Windows 7

Sep 23rd, 2008 | By A Ash | Category: Featured articles

These are some of the features that I would like to see in Windows 7, Microsoft, take a look at it..

Take advantage of multicore cpu’s without the developer changing any code (Eg. If I have a browser with many tabs, OS should run the processes under different core)
Take full advantage of existing memory (Eg. If [...]



CHANDNI CHOWK TO CHINA hindi movie delayed

Sep 22nd, 2008 | By A Ash | Category: News

According to Mid Day tabloid, CHANDNI CHOWK TO CHINA - the first Indian production by the Warner Bros, has been delayed due to faults in the film’s prints.
The film was scheduled to be released during the festive week of Diwali. Now it is planned to be released in January 2009 as the lead actor [...]



Onam meal in the Air

Sep 21st, 2008 | By A Ash | Category: Talks



Barbara Mori Roped in for Kites, a Hindi Flick

Sep 21st, 2008 | By A Ash | Category: News

Kite, an ambitious hindi film from Rakesh Roshan, is being made on lavish budget with Hollywood beauty Barbara Mori roped in to play the female lead opposite handsome hunk Hrithik Roshan.
Kangana Ranaut, the sexy bombshell of bollywood, too, plays an important role in the film, which is said to be based on a [...]



Celebrate at Celebrations

Sep 20th, 2008 | By Jairam Mehtha | Category: Featured Story, Reviews

If its raining or hot, don’t bother to go to Celebrations. Its a roof top restaurant located at Road No.1, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad.
  As you can see from the photographs, the restaurant provides a spectacular view of Hyderabad at night.
As we entered the restaurant plot, which was extraordinarily decorated with plants, small ponds, great lighting and [...]



Fashion Movie is positively coming this Diwali

Sep 17th, 2008 | By A Ash | Category: News

Joginder Tuteja, Bollywood Trade News Network
There are quite a few films releasing in and around the festive season of Diwali. While 24th October sees the arrival of multi starrer HEROES, animation film ROADSIDE ROMEO and a small film called I AM 24, on 29th October which falls in the middle of the week, EMI, [...]



Bollywood actress at HDIL

Sep 17th, 2008 | By A Ash | Category: News

Mumbai: Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra at the opening show of the HDIL India Couture Week 2008 in Mumbai on Tuesday.



Go Goa - only if you are upmarket and family

Sep 17th, 2008 | By A Ash | Category: Talks

 by Rina Chandran
Goa, long a magnet for partying hippies, penurious college students and planeloads of foreign pensioners, now wants only “upmarket and responsible family tourists”, the Economic Times has quoted the state church as saying.
In a bid to restore some of the shine lost in the Scarlett Keeling case, the Goa church, which apparently [...]



Bollywood’s ‘Last Lear’ a treat for Shakespeare lovers

Sep 17th, 2008 | By A Ash | Category: Reviews

By Shilpa Jamkhandikar
MUMBAI (Reuters) - It’s not about Shakespeare and not based on “King Lear,” but fans of the Bard may find traces of both in a new Bollywood film set in modern-day India.
Amitabh Bachchan, Bollywood’s biggest star, plays a reclusive stage actor in “The Last Lear,” one who quotes Shakespeare with relish and is [...]