The Great Ganesha

Reading the BBC this morning, I came across a story entitled Polygamous Lesbians Flee Sharia. Now, just think: How many controversial items are in the title itself? Firstly, we have “polygamous” which is certain to raise some eyebrows. Then we have “lesbians” – enough said about that. And finally, we have “Sharia” or Islamic law [...]

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Picture courtesy: Andy Day An article by Alec Wilkinson in last week’s double-issue of the New Yorker is about parkour – the art of running up walls, going down the rails (as opposed to the stairs) and jumping across rooftops. As it says in the magazine: Parkour, a made-up word, cousin to the French parcours, [...]

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A German engineer does Chaudhvin Ka Chand Ho, without knowing a word of what it means. Impressive! Eindrucksvoll!

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Last night, The Daily Show‘s “Senior Mumbai Bureau Chief” Aasif Mandvi’s sketch on the Richard Gere incident was lackluster at best. It just wasn’t that funny. Here’s my pause ‘n play analysis. Incidentally, if you haven’t watched it yet, go ahead and do so. Then come back here for the fun-alysis. Play First, Jon Stewart [...]

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Actor Richard Gere has sparked protests in India after kissing Celebrity Big Brother winner Shilpa Shetty at an Aids awareness rally in New Delhi. Demonstrators in Mumbai (Bombay) set light to effigies of the Hollywood star, while protesters in other cities shouted “death to Shilpa Shetty”. The protesters said Gere insulted Indian culture by kissing [...]

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An important message to the fellow desi diaspora in the US Are there times when you feel “less desi”? Do you say to yourself, “By leaving my home country, I have betrayed my culture, my values and most importantly, my mother.” Do you feel isolated? Like a traitor? Well, stop worrying! We here, at The [...]

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(via) It seems that Kuldip Singh Nag, a Sikh-American, and a Bronze Star holder from the first Gulf War (no less) living in Joilet, IL (quite near to where I have relatives) was questioned at his own house by an officer who happened to be making rounds, about a van with expired registration stickers in [...]

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  I should apologize for the sudden infrequency in posting on this blog. Life sometimes (hard as it may be to believe) gets in the way of one’s blogging. But fear not, because I’ll be trying to get stuff up here every now and then. Just not as frequently as I used to. And don’t [...]

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Ordinarily, I’m of the opinion that graffiti is an eyesore. But this guy definitely makes you do a double-take. Some pretty amazing stuff. This one below is apparently on the Westside Crisis Clinic on Turk St. in San Fran. Check it out. [via]

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The Simpsons go to Bollywood in this one and Kishore Kumar does the playback. It’s from an episode that aired (almost exactly a year ago) on 4/9/2006. The Simpsons do actually go to Bangalore, because Burns shut down the nuclear power plant and outsourced all the work there. A classic line from that episode (but [...]

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