Nepali student killed in car crash

Looks like you are new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Tragedy struck 21-year old Kritika Singh, when a freak mishap resulted in her death.
Kritika Singh lost control of her Isuzu Rodeo about 11 p.m. Monday when her car struck the mattress on the highway near Nutley Street [...]

How Sarah Palin crashed Über Desi

No this is not Über Desi taking a hard right turn and embarking on a Sarah Palin lovefest. Our regular readers are probably aware of this - Über Desi was down for almost 120 hours over the Labor Day weekend !!!! The reason, GOP Vice Presidential candidate, Sarah Palin.
This former mayor of a small town [...]

The Macaca Effect

“The Macaca Effect” as I understand it, refers to the George Allen Macaca controversy and the possibility that were it not for that slip, Allen could be 2008 GOP Presidential nominee instead of John McCain. [Wash. Post]
Since we’re on the topic of H1B visas today and the backlash in certain quarters, which often borders on [...]

Shelley Malil arrested

Kerala-born actor Shelley Malil was arrested recently in California on charges of attempted murder. [CNN] (tip Sidhu via email)
Shelley with the Governator during happier timesimg: via collintheatrecenter.com
Our Macaca Crimewatch section often features crimes against and/or by desis. These people are usually unknown entities who are thrust into the spotlight as victims or offenders. For the [...]

Über Desi is desi virginity central?

Over the past months, I’ve observed with great interest the increase in number of searches with the keyword “virgin” that lead to our humble blog. [thanks Google Analytics]
It all starts with some poor unsuspecting soul typing in the keyword “desi virgin” on google and hitting the search button. For some weird reason, UberDesi.com shows up [...]

Virginia Tech: One year later, Minal’s dream endures

Minal Panchal, was one of the students killed in the senseless massacres at Virginia Tech last year. A year later, her dream project still remains. [TOI] (tip Sidhu via email)
Her dream project was to create an environment for development of children, particularly for troubled youth.
Now, a year after young Minal Panchal was gunned down in [...]

Indian students’ safety on US campuses

DNA India picked up on recent reports of deaths of Indian students in the US and ran a story/op-ed with the sensational headline “Are our children safe in the US?”. [link]
BBC followed up with an even more sensational headline “Insecurity grips Indian students in US”. [link]
As a background to this story, in the last 12 [...]

Desi Uncle arrested for wife’s murder

Last month, Virginia police discovered the charred body of Vanalata Patel off a highway in Virginia.
57 year old Vanlata Patel’s body was found in a brush fire just off Interstate 85 near South Hill.(link)
Initially, police did not suspect her husband Harish Patel, 60. They described him as “distraught” after hearing of his wife’s death. [...]

Huckabee wants Constitution in ‘God’s standards’ (Update)

Fair enough. Can we have different versions - one in Allah’s standards, one in Rama’s standards, one in Buddha’s standard and so on? [link]
Update: It has been brought to my notice that my viewpoint was very much in line with one Mr. Thomas Jefferson. [link]
Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the [...]

Anu Solanki’s day out (Updated: Pics and background story)

Update:

From left: Anu Solanki, Dignesh Solanki and Karan Janiimg: via ChicagoTribune and Sun Times

Finally, we’re starting to get more details on the background to the Anu Solanki story. [link]
Anu Solanki came to the United States to meet him, and Dignesh Solanki, who was living in Chicago, went to court her in Virginia, where she was [...]

Nepali woman in TB scare

Airplanes are a germaphobe’s worst nightmare come true, particularly trans-continental flight. Add stories like these and it makes you want to never set foot in an airplane ever again.
A Nepali woman who was on a flight from New Delhi to Chicago and then onto San Francisco was diagnosed with a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis, prompting [...]

LSU’s administration shows insensitivity [2 UPDATES]

[Update1] I now find the article from the LSU Reveille missing. Screen shots at the end.
[Update2] Runa tipped us that the Baton Rouge PD is looking for three or four “young black males” in connection with the murders.

While we are saddened and baffled by the lack of security in Universities across the country, the [...]

Meet Nathaniel Abraham

Nathaneil Abraham is the desi Christian scientist who was fired from the prestigious non-profit Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Massachusetts, for revealing his beliefs (or lack of) in evolution (tip Runa via Uber Stories).
From Reuters:
A Christian biologist is suing the prestigious Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, claiming he was fired for refusing to [...]

R3392AD

That ain’t the updated version of R2D2 from Star Wars. We’re talking about Ramayan set in 3392AD. [link]
Virgin Comics combines with Shekar Kapur and Deepak Chopra to bring this new venture.
A rundown of some of the main characters: [from wikipedia]
* Rama - Dashrath’s eldest son and protagonist of the series. [...]

Hum Aapke Hai Branson

Billionaire Richard Branson’s “baraat” finally arrived with Branson on horseback. He entered the “mandap” where a man, his partner, was waiting for him. Brason then garlanded his male partner signifying their union ……….. in business [link].
This scripted spoof of an Indian wedding procession and marriage ceremony, was Branson’s way of announcing a technology tie-up with [...]

When Ashley wore a sari

Ashley Judd goes Bollywood with a vengance. Check out Ashley all decked out - desi ishtyle - in a sari (tip Runa via Über Stories). This was for the Faces of India gala in McLean, Virginia. Über verdict: I’d hit it. Comments may now commence.

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Human trafficking grows, thanks to HIV.

Just when you thought that education would, in the long run, help resolve the growing number of HIV+ cases in India, the disease has morphed itself to create more trouble. Human trafficking networks are now after younger women, because that is what their ‘clients’ want.
The desire for younger women has been around for a long [...]

Virtual Reality Travel - Desi ishtyle!

In the last couple of years, a slew of budget airlines have cropped up in India. But not every Indian can experience the joys of air travel. It never has been the case. For example, I lost my air travel virginity (for the record, I am not a member of the “Mile High Club” yet) [...]

India now outsourcing to the US

Indian companies are now outsourcing to the US and A.
It would be easy to imagine Reno, Ohio, as the type of place that would be hit hardest by outsourcing - a small American town losing out to the invisible hand shifting jobs to places like Bangalore and Guangzhou. Instead, outsourcing is bringing the jobs to [...]

Big Pimpin’ in the name of religion

Big pimpin not in the Jay-Z mold.
We’re talking about parents selling their girl child to lead a life of prosperity, pimping, in other words. Devadasi (no relation to the Shah Rukh Khan snoozefest) literally means “servant of god” except that these women are not.
As children their parents gave them to serve Yellama - the [...]

Desi Couple charged with slavery

One of us evil NRIs no less.
Things have come a full circle. Gone are the days when Indians were enslaved by the British and other European powers. Today, Indians are at the forefront of the IT Revolution. Also, these days with the power of Al Gore’s creation at their fingertips, slavemasters can shop for slaves [...]

Born Again Virgins - Desi Ishtyle

For a very reasonable cost of Rs. 15,000-25,000, Indian women can now regain lost virginities. And we’re not talking about Baba Jadi-booti-wala (quacks who practice roadside treatments) types cures either. Plastic surgery can now fix what a horny boyfriend (pun unintended) broke.
It’s a 30-minute surgical procedure called hymenoplasty costing Rs 15,000 to 25,000 which has [...]

The Massacre at Virginia Tech: The day after

Tuesday 5:30pm Update: The killer Cho Seung-Hui’s roommate, Karan Grewal is desi. This is what he had to say on Cho on the morning of the fateful day.
His face was blank, expressionless. “He didn’t have a look of disgust or anger,” Grewal said. “He never did, there was always just one look on his face.”
……….
“My [...]

The Massacre at Virginia Tech: The day of

Monday night Update: Reports are the gunman was of Chinese origin in the US on a visa, presumable a F1 visa issued for students. Note: Update from Tuesday is that the killer was from South Korea.
Original Post:
In a chilling development, a gunman shot and killed 32 (and counting) and injured around 25 (and counting) [...]

Narain Karthikeyan signs up to race in the Speedcar series

F1, A1GP, 24 hours of LeMans and now Narain Karthikeyan joins big name drivers like Jean Alesi, Stefan Johansson, Gianni Morbidelli and Johnny Herbert in the new Speedcar championship starting in November this year.

Speedcar championship is a newly formed series that pits 24 identical cars using a 600bhp engine. From the initial looks of it, [...]