lol.
Im amazed.

My Biology teacher in India "skipped" the reproduction chapter and told us to study it ourselves at home.
How prude!

was that "born in the USA" being cued at his exit?

...umm why? He clearly said he was born in pakistan.

Devdas was in itself quite famous outside India (It was the foreign film pick for cannes?)

So, Im not sure if this had anything to do with slumdog.

boring and the laughter is fake.

About 10 or more years ago (around the time India was opening up), McDonalds sued a company in bangalore that sold bathroom tiles etc.
Mallappa and Sons had a logo that was quite like the golden arches. Well, McD lost that one because Mallappa had been around in India before McD.

I hate all the copyright and patent b/s thats become American culture.

Last trip to bangalore I saw "American corn" being sold with Mickey Mouse on the store's banner.

I smiled. Love India.

Its a sad day when American copyright b/s starts controlling creativity in other countries.

In Bangalore, When I saw a push-cart with the words "American corn" and a sketch of Mickey enjoying a corn cob on it, I didn't question if the Disney empire was behind this poor man's enterprise. Instead I reveled in the ingenuity of this man.

A lot of art is "inspired" and copyright kills that.

> Upon hearing the news, Geetali Norah Jones Shankar just shook her head quietly.

ROFL

I'm with Manish on this one.
Gates had just come back from a trip (possibly tired and jetlagged)
He had trouble getting into his house (more reason for irritation)
The cop ended up being on the receiving end of all that irritation and frustration.

Re: the beer summit : Cop invites himself over to the white house. WTF
Future cops take note: if you wanna go get a free beer with the POTUS, arrest some hi-flying black man.

Arresting a man just because he was being bitchy to the cop is not constitutional.
Wearing a uniform doesn't automatically give you respect. You earn it.

From comments on youtube :

TheBeautyIsFake : Why would she be in india when the character of Jade and the universe she resides in is NOT planet earth? Think about it.

Me : Because her job got outsourced to India, from beyond planet earth.

TheBeautyIsFake : That makes no sense. It's a game set in another fucking universe, there IS NO INDIA OR PLANET EARTH.

( I give up! Humor is clearly not my strong card.)

When Nero was "interrogating" the captain, was I the only one who half expected him to water-board the captain with all that water around them?

I thought some of the dialogue was lacking in substance.
But it was a worthy timepass movie.

Meh, not totally authentic.
That man should've been on an Indian Commode.

Plus no elephants or snake-charmers.
phail.

nvm, it was china. they'll sell anything.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction

I can only imagine where Zardari plans to deploy those drones.

btw, down history lane, who gave Pakistan nuclear weapons/technology ?

bah, socialists!

Kinda reminds me of Rodin's thinker.

She's B.A.N.A.N.A.S.
but she's cool.

full video here with judges comments
http://s79.photobucket.com/albums/j141/mjsbigblog/Top%208/?action=view&current=anoop-top8.flv

Maybe, just maybe..... Obama doesnt give a damn about India right now?
There are no big fires raging there that he needs to put out.

I think Adam will win this time, or atleast come a close second.
He's not only a good performer, he sings well too, and has a few originals out already.
He reminds me of the rocky horror picture show.

Anoop, while being a giant leap ahead of Sanjaya, is still a lot further from what American Idol looks for.
But he's still young and he definitely has career potential in the music business.
He could easily make it big in the Desi pop scene as well.

3rdEye* seems to be from the opposing faction. BJP? VHP? RSS?
Excessive Hindutva overtones.

Freaks like him fuck up all the comment threads on youtube where there's anything remotely related to India.
Grow up already.

He sang beautifully.
In future performances, I think he should either stick to the soul/emo stuff, or get an image consultant to spruce up his hair, clothes etc and teach him some moves.(Adam Lambert cleaned up, so Anoop can surely switch it up too)

I think he'd be awkward being a pop/rock performer without some image change, and Im also really worried that the show producers will turn him into another Sanjaya, coz certain audiences love to laugh at the odd guy on stage.

Its all good but I dont like what she's wearing.
Its just odd.

H8 IE8

i say FAKE

Marry me, Gautam Bhan!

Marry me, Anoop!

Seriously! Apple has taken the simple UI thing a bit too far and made it complicated again.
To top off the triple-click annoyance, I hear that the new shuffle does not accept standard headphones.
Tsk Tsk apple. Someday you're going to have to give into open standards or give up existing. Till then, keep coming up with pretty things for the fanboys to dream of.

lol. nice bit of writing there.

i read on some other sites (namely reddit) that he sounded condescending.

> I seem to remember a lot of Chinese jokes directed at him on the show.

yea? I saw most of the show via youtube and I thought he was liked by all.
Anu Malik said something that may have been taken as "racist" ( when he asked him, "but your great-grandfathers are from China, right?"), but isn't that a very Indian thing to do (to confirm peoples ancestry, put them in buckets like gujju, bong etc)

I'm glad you brought up Meiyang Chang. That was happening around the same time as Sanyaya, and I really noticed the 'differences' between eastern media and western media.
Where Sanjaya was mocked for being different, and the producers just let him be the class clown, Meiyang was loved by everyone and never mocked (except a loose comment by one of the judges saying something about his ethnicity). Meiyang was a really good singer and deserved to be there, while Sanjaya was there for all the wrong reasons.

Anyways, it is true that when the tribe has spoken, the odd one is out.

It was definitely local.
The male lead was so gay (or maybe its just me who thinks spanish male dancers gyrate a lot)

no macaca?

tsk tsk.

> khoofi of the Ghee


Nice pic.
....A/S/L ?
:-)

what is totty?

Is there some desi slang that i'm missing?

Was watching other Rachel shows and found this revelation by a Desi independent journalist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siPJ7w-pPuk

omg. I love Rachel (even though I'm gay).
She's like a lesbian voice of reasoning amidst all the crap that is political news media in the USA.

Not city of Joy, but I saw a lot of similarities with "City of Men (the tv series)"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Men

regarding Milk:
I didn't like Milk as much, although I live in the castro and was an "extra" in the horde of "angry" homosexuals marching at castro/market streets. I caught an older documentary on Milk (the times of Harvey Milk) on hulu, and found that a lot better.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/49577/the-times-of-harvey-milk

I've been listening to Jai Ho and Mausam.
Jai Ho translates well to that moment in the movie (i.e. "let there be victory")
and I like the unusual use of instruments in Mausam.

benjamin button. what a frickin waste of time that was.

Tom Hanks needs Fair and Lovely.

wow. so if u procrastinate or do things in the spur of the moment, you're suddenly a security risk.

because we all know how unplanned terrorist attacks generally are.
tsk tsk. TSA FAIL.

And here I thought Richard Simmons was gay. How shallow of me.

But they definitely took Cummerbund from us.
Also Shampoo, Veranda, Jungle .....

nice one.
I thought u were talking about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asha_Gill (Asha Anand Gill), who hosts Lonely Planet six degrees and is a fun host to watch. I recently saw the episodes she did on mumbai, singapore etc and loved it.

hmm. size 10 shoe.
U know what that says about the size of the shoe-owner's .... right?

All I see is an "A-rab" Terrorist who's not wearing his turban!

That was my fav track too.

>> 11.19am - Two “top US intelligence officials” have been killed in the Taj.

so, is that why they were asking ppl for their US/Brit passports?
What were these officials doing at the Taj and why is stopping them so important for these terrorists?
This basically rules out the point that this was a random terrorist action ? (i.e. the general bombing scene which they do to just get attention)

Best signboard I read: "Bush, you're fired!".
The tribe has spoken.

This is a historic moment in our lives.
This man will lead the world to a better future.

This is in Mumbai?
Im keen to know what the rest of the world (outside the US) thinks about this election, the various scandals etc.

That cake is to die for!

As soon as prop 8 fails, and I find a confused man to marry, I'm getting that cake made!

> sane fiscal policy,
you'll get it

> an end to the Iraq war,
possibly

> a Guantánamo shutdown,
not happening

> a ban on torture,
not happening

> an end to signing statements,
yea, but what you really want is someone to go back and erase all the crap bush scribbled already.

> an end to dragnet Internet spying
not happening

>> I think you meant Exploratorium.

> Nope. See 1:11.

Well, I guess "palace of fine arts" is a nice and romantic name, and if I were blogging, I'd pick that, even though there's neither palace nor art in that area. It houses the Exploratorium now, which is a cool science exhibit, and an easy to mis-pronounce word.

> But ever since Sushmita Sen nachofied in front of the Palace of Fine Arts

I think you meant Exploratorium.

> Salman Khan’s neon yellow suit in that flick placed him squarely in the Castro

o rly? Wait till the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence hear about this.

Palin is a good debater talker, when she's prepared.
She had her charm on full-blast and you'll notice how she used certain phrases to tweak the psychology of her opponent to keep him from going on any offensive attack.
She is a slick talker, lipstick or not.

My beef with her is about her tolerance of gays.
Its not tolerance we want. Its acceptance and equality.

I would PAY good money to see Palin and Biden argue like that.

> According to the twelfth amendment, he VP needs to meet all the eligibility criteria for the President, and hence naturalized citizens cannot be Veep.

Yup, coz we all know that a naturalized citizen wont respect all that this country stands for, compared to a regular citizen who takes it for granted.

Till a few weeks ago, I thought Arnold Schwarzenegger was a better fit for VP (he's a red governor of a blue state). The big reason for him not being picked was probably his immigrant status (a ceiling that he's finding hard to break, since his wife wants him to be the President someday). But, Arnie has goofed a lot with the California budget, and his ratings are way down of late.

She's all lipstick and no pitbull.

I'm not a PC, but I'm a human suffering.

word.

"Charming" title.

Ah! Now if only all the republicans "get it".

Palin lost my respect when she rinse-repeated her speech the very next day. If you're that good an orator, debator or trash-talker, you gotta come up with new stuff all the time.

This man single-handedly restores my faith in American politics.

why the post title? Who is sakina?

now thats how you carry off a sari!

the micro-mini sari reminds me of the thing Zeenat Aman wore in Satyam-shivam-sundaram.
hawt.

nice stuff.

#1 : Thats not a sexy pair of underwear, so I dont get the ad.
fwiw, indians never saw "underwear" as sexy, till a few years ago when jockey had that hot model plastered everywhere sporting them.
Eitherways, dull ad.

#2 : Color me blind, but wtf is "Axe : dark temptation", and why did it come from Argentina to India via Europe?
What is Axe going to sell in China? "Yellow fever"? Oh, wait, that names taken.

#3 : Bongs get their artistic liberties. Like Antar Mahal, with all its Durga/Kali breast-rubbing and thigh massage. Waaaay ahead of its time. Bongs are sexy too.

what is this weird fascination that Indians have with Ayn Rand ?

Lets all be clear here. There's only one culprit to blame this on : Testosterone.

She had a bit of it, he had a bit of it, and the crowd had a bit of it.

Thats all folks.

yea, she's gotta control the dominatrix inside her.

Totally uncool on her part to even have started it. Bitch got what was coming to her.
His slap was more of a knee-jerk reaction and I would have probably done the same without thinking (hence a knee-jerk reaction).

Who wants to bet that if McCain should win, Alaskan oil reserves are going to get tapped and opened for the rich oil companies to exploit, along with offshore drilling that McCain is so pumped about.

This greed fest makes me wanna puke.

$5 says that he'll be coming out of the closet sometime soon.

>> white butter smeared on his face have some very adult resonances for those of us who have grown up in the kalyug of porn films.

what sort of sex have you been having/watching ?
:-)

cool stuff.
I cant believe the granny was really driving that scooter.
You go Nani !!!

"we are all macaca "?
Doesnt the picture show that we "were" all macaca, before we evolved into humans?
Kinda missing the message there (whatever that is)

nice ones.
Loved the reference to "not-staring", especially when the Mona Lisa stares at everybody (apparently, her eyes follow you, or so i hear)

lol

http://jokemail.blogspot.com/2008/01/holiday-depression.html

where is his Apu accent?
Fuckin traitor!

I, for one, welcome our new desi Maharajas.

(clue : http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000399.html)

I loved it.

and I love some of those prints!

you havent eaten good chaat in the bay area until you've tried Aunty's chaat (chaat corner? in newark/fremont).
It beats Viks hands down and the gol-gappas are served authentically (i.e. one by one near the counter).

The only thing I've ever really liked at Chaat cafe is the tandoori salmon (served with rice etc) which they make on fridays at their fremont cafe. I'm not sure if they follow the same routine on the 3rd street store, but that was some good salmon with masala.

Just watched the movie at the Castro theatre.
Frankly, I went in, a little unsure of the movie.
why? I guess the trailer wasn't good enough to set the movie apart from the general american-desi fare.

But what a great movie! Hilarious from the beginning to the end.

Loved the "obligatory" standing ovation towards the end. Pure genius to make a movie-scene that makes people stand up in respect. Kudos!

So, I've blogged about it, told everyone I know to go see it when it comes out in the US.

I also appreciated the way the movie handles the bit of homosexuality portrayed in a few characters. The cucumber scene was just so sweet. (Yes, cucumber. No, not that way.)

I'm with Burbak and chachaji.
Let peace prevail.
Hatred only brings sorrow.

oh yes, a parandhi (hair extensions?).

I've seen some really well done bhangra performances in Punjab, and I still remember the hip-twisting moves of the women there and the long parandhi whipping around. Gosh! That was some BOOTY!

having said that, I'm back to being gay. Phew!

> Why don’t you keep that accordian file with GC, SSN passport etc in a fire/flood proof safety box in a bank? keep multiple
> copies as backup on HDD and USB drives. That way all you have to worry is your boy! :-)

Maybe you can make multiple copies of the boy too and keep some at the bank. That way you have no worries.
;=)

oh, and the verification code is still working with "brown" and not "ostyle"

"Javed Akhtar rides drrty when the shayari begins."

what? didnt catch that.

I'd do him

isnt the hindu swastika left-facing (anti clockwise) and the nazi one the mirror image of it?
maybe i have them confused myself.
If only we'd have a patent on that logo, we could've sued the nazis.
Too late now.

y'know, i think we are hypocrites.
We're ok with some dude on MTV "yo'mamma" bringing up his false desi accent, but not fine with anyone else trying to do it.

Apu is a funny character, just like the brown-bag people on fandango with "chitra my queen...." (which really makes me cringe), but hey, its funny, and you'd hope that the audience is wise enough to understand the difference between a stereotypical potrayal as a joke, and an actual humiliating mockery.

I dont think Americans mock bollywood dancing and all the indian stuff. Its amazing to them, because it is different.

The 7-11 thing might be an issue (even something that can be legally fought) if the stores were forced into participating. America is about Commercialism/Capitalism. If those store owners agreed to it willingly, then thats their perogative.

Just wait a few years and an Indian like Nooyi will be the CEO running the 7/11 chain. Its inevitable. Then what?

you're both very seminal.
;-)

whiskey, tango, foxtrot!
are the rules different?

"She also sings on ‘Dancing’ by Johnny Prez (listen here), again in near-flawless Hindu."

in Hindu? wtf man.

And seriously, she's shit compared to any proper hindi singer, so lets stop hailing mediocrity.

Thanks for that link

Ever met anyone from JNU? they're totally brainwashed into this socialism bullshit and really agressive about it.
Total turnoff.

ravi shankar was a two timing bastard who wanted to have his cake and eat it too.
Being a good musician doesnt make you a good father (neither does being the 'father of the nation', which gandhi, another bad dad will agree to)
There's simply no excuse for being a bad father and he should be ashamed of himself.
women deserve a lot more than assholes like him. period.

"Another kid behind us, before anything interesting happened, liked to ruin the surprise. He was a walking, talking movie spoiler."

That was me at 7 years old, watching my first republic day parade in real-life.
I was Sooooo excited.

more about him here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinesh_D'Souza

"Prior to his marriage, he reportedly dated conservative author Ann Coulter and conservative radio host Laura Ingraham, to whom he was engaged but never married"

Ann Coulter? That rings a church bell.