The video, the latest in a series of funny promos by The Guild, features Codex played by Felicia Day and Zaboo by Sandeep Parikh, in lead roles. As the video plays out, Zaboo convinces Codex, Bollywood ishtyle, to join him in playing the game. [via Om]

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The immigration debate in the US is often too impassioned, unreasonable and one-sided with one party demanding blanket amnesty for all and the other side demanding mass deportations for all. We’ve brought up this question in the past, what about those who become undocumented for no fault of theirs, particularly those minors who became undocumented immigrants because their parents brought them here or their parent’s visa expired?
Yves Gomes belongs to the latter group. [Silicon India]
His parents had tourist visas when they brought him at 14 months old to visit relatives …

Food blogger, Aarti, wins “The Next Food Network Star”, gets own show on the Food Network.

Manoj Kumar with his patriotic movies, forever changed the face of Bollywood, while keeping his own face covered.

How Santosh Ostwal quit his job, did some jugaad and bettered over 10,000 lives

Putting Web 2.0 in Orwellianism – Delhi police ishtyle. Plus a bonus big brother story

How Facebook used gupshup and dance to overcome Orkut!

Like the exile periods of kings in the days of yore, it takes anywhere from 12-28 years for legal immigrants to become US citizens

I’ve heard of cold feet on the day of the wedding but this curious video (ht: @desinole via our #uberdesi feed), with foot-tapping background music, takes the proverbial cake. The groom is one gentleman, who DOES NOT, repeat DOES NOT, want this wedding to happen. He appears to be either drugged or on the verge of a serious emotional breakdown. On the other hand, the bride appears quite ecstatic and so does the mob, that is literally forcing the groom through the motions. Also to be noted, some sort of …

Hello! My name is Joel Swine and I write for Schtime magazine in Switzerland. Recently I traveled back home and I experienced some reverse culture shock – the takeover of the Swiss Alps by star struck Bollywood tourists.

Does Obama’s recent immigration speech do enough for legal immigrants, particularly the highly skilled variety?

Joel Stein laments the Indian takeover of his hometown Edison, NJ. But is he really complaining? Is he being racist? Are we missing the sarcasm?

Kyrgyz crisis: If only the Indian govt would protect its citizens as well at home as it does abroad #uberdesi http://bit.ly/buZp1H #
RT: @desinole: Suzuki to build more cars in India than in Japan – http://bit.ly/9xB3YP #uberdesi #
Indian govt proposes laws to end exploitation in surrogacy #uberdesi http://bit.ly/9rFVv1 #
Usain Bolt to skip Commonwealth games in New Delhi #uberdesi http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/201…..ndia494592 #
77 million people exposed to arsenic poison in water #uberdesi http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/wor…..358063.stm #
Indian-American candidates on the rise in American politics #uberdesi http://bit.ly/cYIP9f #

In a disturbing trend, Hitler memorabilia is suddenly chic again among Indian youth.

Indian techie killed meeting Internet friend. Check cashing business robbed, desi employee killed. Alabama professor’s killer indicted for killing brother.

“You’re searching…
For things that don’t exist; I mean beginnings.
Ends and beginnings – there are no such things.
There are only middles.

~ Robert Frost, Mountain Interval, “In the Home Stretch”
Thank you for reading.”

With these words every desi’s favorite aggregator blog is gone.

AT&T-Reliance deal shows increasing influence of India on corporate American #uberdesi http://bit.ly/dtaikP #
RT: @Alltop: How did the East India Company change the world? http://om.ly/lLdL #uberdesi #
Haley 1 pt shy of winning, faces runoff with Barrett, should win despite scandals – desi politician ishtyle #uberdesi http://yhoo.it/aenSWw #
If Haley wins runoff, she will face Democrat Sheheen who is of Lebanese descent. Desi v. Lebanese in S.Carolina, only in America #uberdesi #
TV commentator Juan Williams just said Nikki Haley will be the first Native American governor of S.Carolina. …

Bollywood to make Hitler movie. No, Asrani won’t play Hitler.

Why kids of Indian origin are so successful in the Spelling Bees and why this could just be the beginning of their domination…..

No suspense here. Another Indian-American kid wins the spelling bee, making it three years in a row for kids of desi origin.