British ice dancing team Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean performed this Nataraja and Khajuraho-inspired routine in ‘84. They’re famous for picket-fencing the Sarajevo Olympics that year, winning perfect scores from every judge in the finals:
The costumes consisted of both Jayne and Chris wearing billowing orange/red trousers with brief top pieces adorned with India jewels… a [...]
Things I learned from the Winter Olympics opening ceremony:
Liechtenstein: population 34K, or Bandra station at lunchtime. # of Olympians: 6, twice India’s.
The Azerbaijan team wore crazypants. Rockin’.
Bermuda came out in bright red shorts and nekkid legs. That takes (free) balls.
Little point in Iran’s female skier coming out in a hijab when she’s preceded by a [...]
Stephen Colbert riffed last night on the leaked memo telling Indian cricketers to have sex before a match because it increases testosterone. It’s such a pleasure to finally have the phrase ’sticky wicket’ handled correctly.
American ice dancing pair Meryl Davis and Charlie White won the NHK Trophy on Sunday, rising into the lead with a medley of ‘Kajra Re,’ ‘Dola Re Dola’ and ‘Silsila Yeh Chahat Ka’ (thanks, blackmamba):
Davis and White were first after the original dance [the Bollywood medley] and were awarded 100.79 points following a strong free [...]
What’s the Samachar? is back in business! Our quarterly zine has reincarnated into the shapely form of a monthly interview with people whose stories give rise to our insatiable curiosity. Check out the past issues in the dropdown on the sidebar.
A few weeks ago, Uncle G heard some whisperings on the street about a Parisian [...]
Nineteen-year-old Saina Nehwal upset the Chinese at the Indonesian Super Series badminton tourney June 21st with an overhead smash for match point (at 6:10). She became the first Indian to win a Super Series:
Currently ranked number 6 in the world by Badminton World Federation, Saina is the first Indian woman to reach the singles quarterfinals [...]
The second Twenty20 World Cup comes to a conclusion today after two thrilling weeks in the cricketing calendar. The newest and shortest form of the game has won over thousands of new fans who once found the game boring.
I should be depressed. Having drunk myself into a stupor at Lord’s watching India crash out to [...]
In a fated pairing of retro cool, Nike and Cornershop teamed up for an ad called ‘Chalk’ starring terror of the court LeBron James:
It’s a cavalcade of mashups. Cornershop is redoing black music from the ’70s, and its album covers are a nod to blaxploitation flicks. Setting LeBron to their music is just repayment in [...]
‘Lawn scuba, 1963,’ courtesy of superbomba
Last week I was seized by an unreasonable need to try my hand at scuba. Unlike those who trip lightly through places like Bali and Cancún, I’m far more into the concentrated pleasures of cities. But ’twas warm last week, so there I was, along with an East Asian jock, [...]
Brian Lara showed Obama how to hit a sixer at the Summit of the Americas in Port of Spain, Trinidad yesterday.
(thanks, Siddhartha)
Can’t believe the lad pulled this one off. After facing an opponent who’s a terrible match-up for him and who hammered him in their last two matches. After looking well and truly beaten in the first set and then facing five match points in the second s…
Leave Lasith Malinga alone
If, as it seems, the LeT was behind the Lahore cricketer attack, they’ve completely lost it by pissing in their own backyard. They fundraise in Lahore and their veneer of respectability, their Muridke campus, is a short distance away:
The Markaz campus at Muridke in Lahore, its headquarters, was used as a hide-out [...]
My team of crack spies [sic] tells me there was some sort of sporting event in Amrika yesterday involving large men in gold tights. Considering the chatter leaking out on sportsjihadi sites, it sounded more like a porno (’Jim, the tight end achieves great penetration by heading for the hole…’) I will admit the comic [...]
I was loafing about at the gym when I saw an NDTV clip flash by. Cool, I thought, they’re paying attention to their desi clientele.
Actually, it was an ESPN program about the two Indian dudes recruited for the Pirates farm team. The clip drips with condescension while a bunch of jocks make fun of how [...]