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.

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

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?

I started out writing a long rant about our resident , omnipresent,self appointed guardian of all things Hindu.
Instead it was just easier to present this visual.

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

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.

“The Butler did it” screamed the Wall Street Journal headlines. But what did Indra Tamang do?

How can Bollywood be good for your kundi?

2 high school aged siblings of Indian origin are set to take the basketball world by storm.

A while ago , a fellow blogger on UD wrote this post on Nikki Haley – up and coming Republican representative of Indian origin,
However, we would like to withdraw any desi claim ( Uber or otherwise) to Ms.Haley.
Will Folks, the editor of what many consider the state’s most influential political news Web site, wrote Monday that he had an “an inappropriate physical relationship” with Haley, who is married with two children, several years ago( link)
Before anyone gets their chuddies into a twist over this.
“I have been 100 percent faithful to …

Election year signals the time for dirty politics. The easiest targets for the school ground bullies amongst politicians are those with foreign origins and “foreign sounding” names. Meet David Krikorian, a 2nd Congressional District candidate. [Politico]
David Krikorian, who took 18 percent of the vote as an independent against Schmidt in 2008 even as Democrats targeted the seat, is fighting back against the allegation that he used racially charged language to describe his primary opponent Surya Yalamanchili, who is of Indian extraction.
Hamilton County Democratic Party Chairman Tim Burke and Clermont County …

Earlier this week, Vajinder Toor, a doctor was killed by a former colleague, Lishan Wang, a Chinese national. Read about the case itself, some unusual details and some hack journalism by our very own TOI online newspaper.

Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona signed into law Senate Bill SB1070, which enables law enforcement officers to bypass the protections of the 4th amendment and empowers them to detain and question anyone “suspected” of being an illegal immigrant. [AP]
For those with insomnia, I present to thee the actual contents of aforementioned bill. [AZ SB 1070]
Southwestern states of US have particular been coping with rising number of illegal immigrants. Immigration is an emotional issue and, this so-called solution appears to be an emotional one also. Again putting it in the simplest …

“I am an American soldier. I am a warrior and a member of a team. I serve the people of the United States and live the Army values ….” and with these words Capt. Tejdeep Singh Rattan became the first turbaned Sikh in a generation in the U.S. Army.

Fair is fair. Three year ago we blogged about how researchers discovered something desi households have known for years, turmeric is good for your health. So when a study comes out that turmeric may not necessarily be as good as advertised, we’re here to report on that. As it turns out, the turmeric the previous researchers used was probably not bought in some (or, even worse, all???) Indian grocery stores in the US. [ABC]
Now, a study published today in the journal Pediatrics said young children who regularly ingest some imported …

The census bureau classifies people of Indian origin as “Asian Indian”. They always have as I discovered. (see Census 1990 and Census 2000 form).

People with origins from other South Asian countries (Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh) will be required to go through the tedious process of checking “Other Asian” and filling out a text box specifying their country as their race – Other Asian -> Pakistani, for instance. Thanks, Census Bureau, for making this bureaucratic process simpler for us, minute as it might be. I was a lukka grad student in …