The Great Ganesha

The Moor’s Last Sigh: ‘Twas not meant to be… ‘Tis a sad, sad day here at The Great Ganesha. So sad in fact, that we are declaring tomorrow to be a National Holiday (at least in the US) and we all hope you follow suit. It came as a shock to us all. Like a [...]

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So it seems that there’s been a flurry of activity after the Google ‘Street View’ feature has come out. First off, we had a woman get frantic about the people circling her streets in vans while taking pictures of her cat. Sounds like 24? Well, think again. Here’s what she wrote to BoingBoing: I’m all [...]

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If Elvis were Indian, he’d definitely go for this. I mean, there’s a reason why the pan-fried, peanut butter, bacon and honey sandwich is called The Elvis. A company called (aptly) P.B. Loco has come out with Peanut Butter – the Asian Curry Spice edition. Incidentally, if you go to About.com’s “Elvis Presley’s Favorite Foods” [...]

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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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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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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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Now this caught me completely by surprise. I’ve heard of people running through the freezing Arctic, through the Gobi desert, hell even doing an ultramarathon through Death Valley in July. But this is something else. Our very own Sunita Williams, astronaut desiordinaire, is going to run the Boston Marathon in space! Sunita Williams, 41, a [...]

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We all know when The Great Ganesha interviewed The Chaiwallah, a.k.a. Nikhil of The Simple Leaf (remember the interview?). Through a weird twist of fate, Ganesha and Tea meet up once again in the February issue of Little India (the magazine for the Indian diaspora that’s pretty much single-handedly written by Lavina Melwani). The magazine [...]

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