Shiv Sainiks perform puja at Taj Mahal

Looks like you are new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!After calling for Hindu suicide bombers, Thackeray’s people now want to anoint the Taj Mahal a Hindu temple. [TOI]
Taj Mahal is really Tejo Mahal per Shiv Senaimg: via NYT
In an attempt to reclaim the Taj Mahal as [...]

Don’t touch that! - Part 2

What is it with Indian men in Britain and the distressing habit of playing with their built-in pacifiers? Here we go again. Indian national Ray George, 38, a cardiology registrar at New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton has been charged with committing an indecent act in a swimming pool packed with children. (link)

It is alleged that the [...]

Bobby doesn’t want to be the VP

Bobby Jindal, the republican governor of Louisiana declares that he is not interested for the post of the vice-president of the United States. [Link] (tip Annu, via tipster)

Image from Wikipedia

Bobby Jindal has been touted as the next Ronald Reagan and understandably so, because of his achievements at a very young age, (9 yrs younger [...]

Indian Americans cutting down on basmati?

Indians in India are consuming more rice, while Indian-Americans are cutting down.
More Indians in India are driving, while Indian-Americans are cutting down on their driving habits.
The comparisons between Indians of the des and Indian Americans are strictly anecdotal and may or may not be related but certainly indicative of the times. Personally, over the last [...]

Love Story 2050:Bad taste is timeless

“Love Story 2050″ proves that some love stories should *never* be immortal. Unfortunately, the idea of the movie is a novel one with lots of potential.
“Love Story 2050″: Desi sci-fi gone badimg: via Wikipedia
But Hindi movie scriptwriters are like inept hangmen - very poor execution. The incomprehensible plotline begins with the standard boy-meets-girl. Spoilt [...]

Weird Fashion: Mother Teresa on the runway

Raise your hands if you’ve every caught yourself wondering “WTF! They call this fashion”. Presenting from the Fall-Winter 2008/2009 collection by French fashion designer Frank Sorbier, the Mother Teresa, a collection of plastic bags made to resemble the nun from Calcutta. [Yahoo!]
Now coming down the ramp, Mother Teresa!img: via Yahoo!
So which one of you is [...]

Polls: Religion and God

We’ve run some interesting polls of late, but this poll based on the post on the PEW Religious Poll on Hindus is the US, evoked some surprising responses.
In the Pew Religious poll, 85% responded “yes” to absolutely or somewhat believing in a “god”. However, in the UD poll, less than 40% responded “yes” to [...]

Bollywood on SYTYCD

Hat tip [The pretty lady from HHC]. Honestly I was not expecting much but DAMN, they did an amazing job.

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Arranged or Deranged?

Chaudhary Rashid a 54 year old Man in Georgia was charged with the killing of his daughter Sandeela Kanwal(link) .The purported motive is that his daughter reportedly was not happy with her recent arranged marriage that took place in Pakistan to a man who now lives in Chicago.
“The victim was not interested in marrying, [...]

Mr. Tata goes to the USA

The ink has not even dried on the papers and the goodwill has started to flow in. Barely a month has gone by after he signed a $2.3 billion deal to buy prestigious, but ailing British car makers Jaguar and Land Rover from their overlords in Detroit, Ratan Tata is already doing his bit for [...]

11 year sentence for Sabhnani (UPDATE 2 )

A judge has sentenced Mahendra Varsha Sabhnani convicted in a slavery case that we covered here , and here to 11 years of prison.Unfortunately, this is an AP news release so I cannot quote any of it here because of this .
UPDATE: CNN now reports that Varsha Sabhnani was sentenced to 11 yedars while Mahendra [...]

God’s Divine Messenger Shows Obama The Light

The Pundit of Pizazz, Stephen G. Colbert, helps Barack Obama find a new religion by exploring Hinduism with Hindu Temple Society of North America President Uma Mysorekar and presents some Hin-do’s and Hin-don’ts.

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Borrow an Indian atheist

This library has no books.
Thats right - instead this unique concept called the “Living library” lets you “borrow” individuals for half an hour of dialog. The individuals represent stereotypes that are targets of prejudice or hatred. The “Living Library” was started by Ronni Abergel, a Danish anti-violence campaigner who has taken this concept to more [...]

And you would think it’s for the opening night.

Posters of a big tamil movie star line the street, the venue that could hold 20,000 people is twice as full, stampede on the streets and every big name in town and some from out of town decide to show up. Ideally this would be the scene for the first show of a Rajnikanth movie.
Not [...]

Castles in the sky, slums on the ground

Somini Sengupta at New York Times has an article on a phenomenon that continues to confound the Western economists, journalists and intelligensia - the rich and the poor living side-by-side in major Indian cities. [NYT] (tip Runa via email)
Castles in the sky, slums on the ground - desi ishtyleimg: via NYT
The article talks about the [...]

Indian portal bullies and stalks blogger

Cyberbullying and cyberstalking of the worst form, by an Indian online portal. [link] (tip Spee via email)
When blogger Inji Pennu catches Kerals.com red-handed plagiarizing some of her blog content, she gets a nasty reply from the portal’s support staff and further responses that are blatantly criminal acts of cyberbullying and cryberstalking. I’m just shocked [...]

Elderly Delhi Couple accidentally sealed inside home

New Delhi local government zoning officials sealed an elderly couple inside their home as they were enjoying an afternoon nap. [AP] (tip Jennie via email)
City employees mistook the residence of Madhusudan Wadhwa, 76, and his wife for a commercial business in violation of local zoning laws when they locked their gate Monday, officials said.
The couple [...]

Mother’s day Mubarak ho !

Today is Mother’s day a holiday that started in 1914 when Anna Jarvis succeeded in her crusade to found a memorial day for women, in memory of her mother Ann Jarvis who had worked hard to improve sanitary conditions during the Civil War. ( Source : Wikipedia).In a sad foretelling [...]

More Hindoos are coming

As expected, the “Love Guru” is the gift that keeps on giving. ( see our previous post 1, 2 )
Our favorite “Hindu leader” Rajan Zed is now joined by Bhavna Shinde, representing the pompously- named Hindu Janjagruti Samiti and the Sanatan Society for Scientific Spirituality. Ms.Shinde is very industrious as she has sent communiques to [...]

Mangoes are very dear

We desis are serious about our mangoes. And to prove that statement here is a news item fresh from my hometown Pune.
Now I admit I am a mango snob - no Mexican impostors for me -it has to be Ratnagiri apoos or nothing .True that after one bad experience with south-of-border [...]

Snappy jawabs to stupid prashnas

( This is a compendium of the top 6 silly questions I have been asked and answers that I wished I had given.Inspired by MAD magazine’s “Snappy answers to stupid questions”)
1.Did you have an arranged marriage?
a. Yes, I was a child bride /groom at the age of 8
b. No, I accept the blame for it
c.No, [...]

Bend it like Bhutia!

Bhaichung Bhutia - the captain of the Indian football ( aka soccer) team - has made a career out of - pardon the mixed sports metaphor - swimming against the tide.
Bhutia stands up for himselfimg: via Telegraph India
After all he is a sports hero to millions in India- a country where cricket [...]

Great ideas that fail

We’ve all heard those apocryphal stories of clueless Western marketeers attempting to peddle their products in developing conutries without taking the effort to find out what is culturally acceptable. Tales such as that of the Chevy Nova and the unintentionally hilarious Pepsi ads in China .
I present proof of one business - a fancy [...]

No honor in these killings

More than 5,000 women and girls around the world each year are killed, not at the hands of strangers but by their own fathers,brothers and other males in their family in so-called honor killings. [link]
It is the punishment often meted out to women suspected of unsanctioned sexual behavior and believed to have brought shame on [...]

Brown Man’s burden

I love reading “Agony Aunt ” columns. Partly because of my general interest in human nature but, if I am honest, mainly because I feel much better about my life when I realize the myriad problems - real and imagined -that people have !
I had to share this letter written to Margot Carmichael Lester [...]