Indian boy kills girl over iPod

Looks like you are new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Fox News blames it on capitalism. [Fox News] (tip Jennie via email)
10 year old girl in Calcutta brings iPod to school. 14 year old boy wants iPod. 10 year old girl refuses to comply. Boy pushes girl [...]

Spy games: USAF-IAF edition

Remember when Karthik talked about India partaking in “Red Flag” exercises with the US and other nations?
The Indian Su-30MKI apparently is a hot itemimg: via Wikipedia
India and the US have been participating in joint air force exercises over the last decade or so. The most newsworthy story to ever come out of these exercises was [...]

Biden: Beyond 7-Eleven

With Barack Obama picking Joe Biden as the Democrat’s presumptive nominee for vice president, Biden’s “7-Eleven” remarks on Indian Americans have come into sharp focus in the media particularly Indian-American media outlets.
“In Delaware, the largest growth of population is Indian Americans, moving from India. You cannot go to a 7/11 or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless [...]

Chiranjeevi steps into politics

In Andhra Pradesh, everything about Chiranjeevi (star of some of our uber malarial videos 1,2 ), is dramatic - from films to real life.
Cowboy CM for Andhra Pradesh?
Image Source: Idlebrain.com
Born as Konidela Vara Prasad exactly 53 years ago to this day, but popularly known as Chiranjeevi, it hasn’t been too surprising to see that [...]

The Gandhi-fication of John Edwards?

Of course, we’re speaking about John Edwards, the disgraced politician not John Edward, the pysch who communicates with your dead great-grandmother for a family recipe.
She saw a Gandhi in Edwardsimg: via Hollywood Gossip
Newsweek’s Johnathan Darman, who covered the Kerry-Edwards campaign in 2004, recounts his encounters with John Edwards’ other woman Reille Hunter. [NewsWeek]
When Edwards [...]

I want to believe: Bigfoot edition (UPDATED)

I confess to a healthy interest in all things paranormal. Alas , not too many of my friends or family do the same. I am always on the lookout for someone to play Mulder to my Scully.
Bigfoot lives, or is dead depending on your perspective
img: via About.com
I follow the adventures of Bigfoot aka [...]

Abhinav Bindra now a target

Abhinav Bindra, returned home not only a hero but also a target, so he say on his blog. [Bindra blog] [via]
“Chooooo chweeeeeet”, says President Prathiba Patilimg: via Hindu
After Abhinav won the first gold medal ever for India, life was supposed to be all hunky dory. Then he met the President of India who insisted on [...]

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 [...]

Abhinav Bindra, a modern day William Tell?

For all the praise (deservedly) heaped on Abhinav Bindra, this statement by his father disturbs me. [TOI]
Silent killer, as described by his father, he is the one who spotted his son’s talent when Abhinav was 5 years old. “He kept a water balloon on our maid’s head and began shooting, knowing little that a slight [...]

Fuel saving tips

To all those envying the priuses and other hybrids on the road - heave a sigh of relief after reading this article, and you will breath-in cleaner air too, if you follow these tips.
According to an article in TOI,
“At a time when oil is the most precious commodity in our planet, fuel worth Rs [...]

Indian Intelligence Agencies, anything but?

Following the recent terrorist attacks on Bangalore and Ahmedabad, one can be forgiven for wondering what purpose do the intelligence agencies, Intelligence Bureau (IB) for internal intelligence and Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) for foreign operations, serve if they’re clueless about such threats. The BBC has a telling commentary on the (lack of) intelligence in [...]

Another desi child predator caught in the act.

A couple of years ago, Dateline featured a bunch of Desi men trying to meet girls kids, chatting with them and then showing up when their parents were not at home. Except the entire thing was a sting operation.
Now another desi has made news, for the same thing.

An Indian techie- 28 years -old [...]

The Hindoo has come …to Uberdesi

Our regular readers know that we at Über Desi have been following with interest the controversy over the recent Mike Myers’ debacle “The Love Guru”. (See all previous posts here :1,2,3,4,5 and more).Its no secret which side of the controversy I stand on : I believe that the protests by Hindus were misguided and [...]

Kuselan - Not your usual Thalaivar padam!

This is a first for UberDesi. In spite of Tamil being in a majority here at UD, we have resisted joining the quest for Tamil domination in the desi blogosphere. But, perhaps it is time to give in to our baser instincts. And what better way to hitch our cart to that bandwagon than to [...]

Doggy style meets Bollywood ishtyle (Update)

By now you’ve probably heard of the Snoop Dogg venture into Bollywood. [People] (tip Jennie via email)
Snoop is Singh?img: via People
When we heard of this we started scrambling for potential headlines. We’re not the type that settles with lame cheesy headlines lines like “East meets West”. So we settled for the edgier: “Doggy style meets [...]

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 [...]

Think H1B. Think Alberta???

Immigration, business and economics work in weird ways. Point in case, Alberta (in Canada for the geographically challenged) is trying to woo H1B holders, while the US immigration policy makers are doing their best to cut down on the number of H1Bs. [Philly.com] [via]
Alberta is wooing H1B holders with cheesy shots of its picturesque downtownimg: [...]

Pakistan stock market plunges, investor go loco …..

….. desi ishtyle, of course. [NYT] (tip Karthik via email)
Bad day at work?img: via NYT
The pictured scene is not from a campy Lollywood flick (which by the way I highly recommend for purely entertainment purposes), it’s the aftermath of the violence near the Karachi stock exchange. After 15 days of losses and the worst month [...]

Grand wedding entrance - desi ishtyle

We @ Über Desi are vary vary family-like - loving, nosy and overbearing. So much that we’re already planning the baraats of our yet-to-be-married resident bloggers [1,2] even without marriage dates or in some cases, without potential brides. So when we heard about rich grooms in India arriving at the wedding venues in choppers, we [...]

Torture Top 10

Apparently the US military has been playing David Gray’s Babylon nonstop to torture Guantanamo prisoners. [Guardian via Freakonomics Blog]
May I suggest a medley of Himesh Reshammiya, Bappi Lahiri and Anu Malik?

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New Yorker goes overboard on Obama satire?

In case you missed it, yesterday news broke of the intended cover of the upcoming New Yorker’s July 21st 2008 edition. [CNN]
Highlights of the cartoon:1. Shows Barack Obama dressed in traditional Muslim garbs complete with turbanBackground: Barack wore a turban and traditional Kenyan attire in 2006 when he visited that nation. [UD]2. Show Michelle Obama [...]

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 [...]

Sabhnanis order to pay $1 million to maids

A District court judge ordered the Sabhnanis to pay nearly $1 million in back wages to the women whom they were accused of enslaving and torturing. [NDTV]
Even Dr, ,Evil says one million dollars is not enough reparations for slaveryimg: via Wiki
The Sabhnanis, who own an international perfumes business, were accused of holding two Indonesian women [...]

Worth sh!t

“This is worth sh!t” or conversely “not worth a sh!t” takes on a whole new meaning in the Indian village of Musiri in Tamil Nadu. [CNN]
You can now buy a deluxe lota with your sh!timg: via Wiki
Anyone who lives in India or has visited knows that often, hygiene is not among the top priorities particularly [...]

He survived the eye of the tiger

No, this has nothing to do with Rocky getting creamed by Clubber Lang, it’s the amazing true life story of a fisherman in West Bengal getting attacked by a man-eating tiger and living to tell about it. [BBC]

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