December 2006
Add This to Your Resume: Person of the Year, 2006
Photo courtesy of Time Magazine
By now you’ve heard the news: Time magazine’s Person of the Year is, well, you. Congratulations.
Pick up the issue, now on newsstands and you’ll be greeted with a distorted image of yourself, thanks to the reflective Mylar cover.
Once you get over looking at your face, flip through the magazine—the largest […]
Swing Batter-Batter
Babu/Reuters
You knew he could swing a racket, but a cricket bat?
Roger Federer spent yesterday 100 miles south of Chennai, playing a few rounds of cricket with the displaced children of the Pudupettai rehabilitation colony.
The children have been homeless since the tsunami hit on December 26, 2004.
The tsunami-death toll stands at just under 300,000 […]
Governor’s Family Grows
Photo credit: Daniel Fuhr, Governor’s Office
Utah Governor Jon Huntsman is back from India, where he and wife Mary Kaye finalized their adoption of baby Asha.
Asha spent the first year of her life at the Matru Chhaya orphanage in Nadiad (near Ahmadabad in Gujarat) and now joins her six new siblings in Salt Lake City. […]
Get Into The Groove
Photo courtesy of Richa
The countdown to New Year’s Eve has begun—and so has the pressure to find the best bash to help properly ring in 2007.
Those in northern California have plenty of events to choose from. Both the San Jose and Santa Clara Convention Centers (two of the largest in the area) will be hosting […]
Christmas Curry
Photo credit: ManjuMalhi.com
Interested in adding some desi flair to your holiday dinner but aren’t sure how?
Well, look no further than British uber-foodie Manju Malhi’s “Festive Recipies.”
Malhi, author of the cookbooks Brit-Spice and India With Passion, walks you through terrific creations like her Roast Turkey Curry and Cranberry Chutney.
Say buh-bye to the dry uninspired Christmas […]
It’s a “Thums-Up” From Manmohanji
Photo from Amazon.Com
UVA scholar, author Harold Gould calls the book his “labor of love.”
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said it is the best thing he has read all year.
Critics have decided it is “vastly important…for desis, for all South Asians in America, to read and savor” (“It is their story; it is their […]
Goode Says Some Bad Things
Photo source
“I fear that in the next century we will have many more Muslims in the United States if we do not adopt the strict immigration policies that I believe are necessary to preserve the values and beliefs traditional to the United States of America and to prevent our resources from being swamped.”
So writes Republican […]
International Law
Supreme Court of India. Source.
You’ve heard of American law schools (like George Washington University) setting up shop in India.
Well word is, another will soon be following suit.
David Van Zandt, a dean at the Northwestern University School of Law, is in India this week, speaking to administrators at both private and public colleges there.
Says […]
Goopy’s Ghost Dance
This surreal dance sequence is from Satyajit Ray’s 1968 film Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha), a fable featuring two outcast musicians, a ghost kingdom, three boons and a pair of magic slippers. (Thanks, Har.)
The special effects are definitely not like that of Hollywood films of the era. Its 6 1/2 […]
Where My Girls At?
Associated Press
A report, released today by UNICEF, says an astounding 7,000 girls go unborn in India each day.
The abortion of female fetuses is being blamed for what is a clear gender-ratio imbalance: today roughly 800 girls are born for every 1,000 boys.
According to the Associated Press, “The spread of ultrasound technology allowing parents […]
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