In the movie, the guy is a journalist travelling in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam to cover a local festival. He notices a woman on the train, which sets off the events of the film. The north-east of India is home to more than a few separatist insurgencies (hence all the police at the end).

The only Japanese entry?

Avus redux?

It's the height of irony for IO9 writers to be poking fun at someone for insufficient science literacy (which isn't even what's going on here, the Supreme Court just likes wordy definitions), when the writers here can't differentiate between science fiction and science most of the time.

The Dodge Neon. Promised as the "Japanese killer" and ended up being unreliable, unrefined and unconvincing. Kind of sums up Detroit in the 90's.

Hunter green? I remember having everything from pedestal lamps to work-shirts in that colour.

You took that too personally dude. I'm an Oranje supporter. It wasn't just the American press that had low expectations of them. The British papers were hot on Chile taking second place in the group too. In the Netherlands itself, very few people thought they'd make it far in the tournament, which is weird because…

Yes, they have a great WC record but as Eric said, this particular team isn't one of their best. Robben/RVP/Sneijder/Kuyt/Vlaar/DeJong were also on the Euro 2012 Netherlands team that lost all 3 matches in the group round to Germany, Portugal and Denmark. Even Dutch fans were uncharacteristically guarded about their…

They aren't loaded though, that's why everyone was initially predicting a group-stage exit. They had one of the youngest teams in the tournament and outside of the Robben/RVP/Sneijder/Kuyt/Vlaar core, have little international experience and play primarily in the much-maligned Eredivisie. Their making it so far is a…

Swedish driving is no joke.

The new Twingo as a city car at Nissan dealerships would work, or PSA could start selling the RCZ and DS cars by collaborating with another manufacturer's dealer base here. Niche models would be the way to go as they don't really have competitive entries in the segments that matter most to North Americans. Their…

If the seats recline all the way flat, I'd be tempted to sell my shoebox apartment and just live in one of these.

The Alphard/Vellfire's direct competitor is no slouch in the ridiculous rear seats area either. The VIP edition basically gives you the equivalent of a first class seat on a JAL flight. There's a magazine rack, reading lights, a storage locker and individual plugs for electronic devices.

I probably should have but at the time I was just a young tourist who didn't know better. One of our group needed oxygen one night and had to take altitude pills thereafter but thankfully that was the worst of it. Having a vehicle helped, those of us who couldn't manage the uphills just got into the van when things…

Yup, we expected it to be kind of undiscovered but the place is crawling with tourists. It was with a tour-group, we had a vehicle, a bunch of sherpas to cook and set up our tents and rented mountain bikes. The air was pretty thin, I felt like I'd pass out even when putting on my socks. The sky is an intense blue, the…

Khardung-La in the Indo-Tibetan region of Ladakh is all above 5,300m or 17,500'. We biked through the region a few years ago and the parched moonscape you travel through is absolutely gorgeous.

It's called Khiladi 420 (Khiladi=playa, 420 is an allusion to the section of the Indian Penal Code that deals with fraud) and it came out in 2000. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khiladi_4… . It's one of a series of Khiladi movies, all of which are unspeakably terrible. They're basically just a bunch of stunt vignettes…

Most of those car brand pronunciation videos are obviously by people who don't speak the language. The Peugeot guy is prnouncing it the American way. It's not Poo-zho, it's closer to puh-zho. The woman doing Renault is a Brit, it's not Renno with an English R, it's Rrr-no with a French guttural R. Spaniards would…

The Central Asian part of this map is a mess. When did China swallow Kashmir?

Here's the gist. The men have nooses around their neck symbolizing the harsher sentencing being demanded for convicted rapists. The signs say "Vande Mataram" which loosely translates to "Mother, I salute thee," which is the title of an Indian national hymn, an ode to Mother India. One one of the signs it says in…