Om Malik

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Night Shyamalan has Pi-Eyes

Looks like M. Night Shyamalan is back and this time he might be working for Fox 2000. The hit director of Sixth Sense is in discussions about adapting, directing and producing “Life of Pi,” a project based on the best-selling novel by Yann Martel, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The book was a winner of the Man Booker Prize for 2002.

It is a magical adventure story centering on Pi Patel, the precocious son of a zookeeper. Residents of Pondicherry, India — Shyamalan’s home town — the family decides to move to Canada, hitching a ride on a freighter. After a shipwreck, Pi is found adrift in the Pacific on a 26-foot lifeboat with a zebra, a hyena, an orangutan and a Bengal tiger.

Well anything is better than that horrible crop circles movies, isn’t it?

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The Cult of The Ethnic Author

MobyLives has this amazing piece which rips to shred the current obsession with young ethnic authors. The columnist, Laila Lalami who is a Moroccan and a very accomplished writer in her own right argues that people show view Monica Ali’s Brick Lane for what it is – a great book, not a book by pretty something exotic creature. I don’t think I disagree. Brick Lane is simply fantastic, if sometimes pandering to the masses at times.

Still, “Brick Lane” takes the reader into complex, challenging, and enriching worlds. Ali shouldn’t have to be reduced to a pat, exotic persona; her book is far too important not to be judged on its own merit.

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Population boom is industry boon

CNET News.com‘s Michael Kanellos reports that global demographic forces are changing Silicon Valley in profound ways.And that is why most of the tech companies are rushing to the third world. Hey Moron even Kali4rnia is part of the third world – it has now elected a sex-maniac actor as its governor because a few people did not like the guy who was democratically elected for the job. AnyWay reminds me of Bihar….

As many people will be born in India in the next six days as will be born in all 15 European Union states and the soon-to-be EU states in an entire year, he said. India, in fact, is growing faster than China, Pakistan and Nigeria–the world’s second, third and fourth fastest-growing nations–combined.

Blah blah blah….

The United States once dominated the information technology market. But with a greater number of engineers graduating elsewhere in the world, companies will

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