The Maverick Chronicles

Here is the first amongst many signs of the Music Director from Chennai reaping the rich benefits of Slumdog Millionaire. Though the score for the film was hyped beyond oblivion and the movie itself was ordinary to say the least, the artistes (atleast some of them) with the Oscar winning movie have plastered themselves on the global stage. Lo & behold, Mr. Rahman has been signed on as the glolbal brand ambassador for Motorola replacing David 'Golden Balls' Beckham. Now, this comes as a bigger shock considering the brand presence that Beckham commands across the world though it might be waning now that his football career is coming to an end, the Milan loan notwithstanding. Though these reports are appearing on almost all the Indian websites & blogs, I haven't seen any announcement by Motorola officially neither in the broadsheets since yesterday. So I assume its a April Fool's prank being played by someone. Any sane person would not see truth in this story as B...

The Automobile industry around the world is in doldrums along with the rest of the world economy. The most recent victims being General Motors and Chrysler. Now, the Obama administration has declared that it won't allow the American auto industry to vanish. That's some claim, I must say what with crisis written all across the number plate for the industry. The Obama administration has already told Rick Wagoner, Chariman & CEO, GM to go. In the last four years of Wagoner's leadership,GM lost $82 billion.Of course, Chrysler is again in the pits.How it wished Mr. Iaccoca was here to save it, but even he would have been helpless in this situation now. The automobile industry has had this coming since a long time especially the Americam automakers. Even when the world economy was booming, the Top 3 US auto companies were churning up losses left,right and centre. But Ford transformed itself one and a half-two years back after staring at bankruptcy whereas GM thought it coul...