When MTV Desi, Chi and K closed down, they were relaunched in a much more modest form as MTV Iggy, which focuses on diasporas, beginning with those from South and East Asia.

My good friend Samantha is the new Webmistress over there and invited us to guest blog for a month. The first Ultrabrown post just went live. I’m anticipating our contribution will mostly be cross-posts, but check out the Iggy blog.

Other guests this month: Far East Movement, an As-Am rapping and songwriting event, and the Why Files, which deconstructs the science behind the news.

By the way, that guest shot was taken the day after an all-nighter at the J.W. Marriott in Juhu at a brunch with chef+blogger+techie Madhu Menon (MadMan) and Amit Varma. Always get your beauty sleep before photo call, kids.