Mahanandi Is A Feast For The Eyes

“Mahanandi: Cooking with Consciousness ~ Recipes from India and the World” is making me hungry. It’s a food blog maintained by Indira Singari, who is based in Seattle. Her recipes and photos were recently featured in an article on NPR’s “Kitchen Window.” A recent blog entry offers a review of a new cookbook, an interview […]

December 2006

New-Tube Trumps YouTube?

If you think YouTube is iight (but secretly wish it was more desi) you’re going to love India’s MeraVideo.
Much like its American counterpart, MeraVideo allows users to upload and share video clips. Its member-base continues to grow, and users are allowed to put up 100MB’s worth of footage.
Kanwaldeep Kalsi, CEO and site-founder came up […]

December 2006

Bamboo Shoots Sprout Forth Rhythm and Solid Beats

Bamboo Shoots. (bestmusiconcampus.com)
Rock group Bamboo Shoots recently had songs “Hey Girl” (described as a “throwback to early Prince”) and “If You Should Die” featured on TV promos for MTV’s The Real World: Denver and Laguna Beach, in addition to a guest performance on MTV Desi’s top ten countdown. Visit their myspace page to have a […]

December 2006

It’s Not TV

Photo credit: HBO
I think that the message of hope at the heart of this piece is really the incredible depth of the human spirit to survive an overwhelming tragedy.”
So says British desi director Bharat Nalluri of his latest project, HBO mini-series Tsunami: The Aftermath.
It’s been two years since the coastal regions of South and Southeast […]

December 2006

Yunus Takes It To the Bank

Banker to the poor, Muhammad Yunus accepted this year’s Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo last Sunday.
The 66-year old Bangladeshi economist shared the award with his revolutionary “Grameen Bank.” For the past twenty years, Yunus and Grameen have helped impoverished people get out of debt, and go on to become self-sufficient entrepreneurs. Most recipients of the […]

December 2006
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NoJo Like Whoa

Her record sales total 15 million at home and more than 30 million abroad—making this Grammy-winning crooner the best-selling female artist of our century.
Now singing-sensation Norah Jones is gearing up to release her latest record.
Not Too Late, her “most personal album yet,” drops on January 30th and will feature thirteen new songs—all written or co-written […]

December 2006

Racist Attacks in Russia

An Indian student at St. Petersburg’s Mechnikov Medical Academy has been seriously injured in what appears to be a racially-motivated attack.
The student, who has requested his name not be revealed (to save his parents some anxiety), was beaten by a group of Russian youths while on the way to his dorm last night.
Yesterday’s attack […]

December 2006

The Mothership Has Landed

According to recent media reports - Indian Vogue will launch in Fall of 2007! The marriage of Indian fashion & Vogue- it’s enough to make a girl want to master her domain or at the very least master some portion of Daniel Craig’s anatomy. I digress. (But, seriously Daniel I am waiting by the mobile […]

December 2006

K-O Khan

British Asian athlete Amir Khan will fight for his first professional boxing title tomorrow.
Khan is to duke it out with Frenchman Rachid Drilzane for the chance to call himself the IBF inter-continental light welterweight champion.
The fight, Khan’s tenth as a pro, is to be his first over-ten-round match. It’s a step up in class […]

December 2006

Size Does Matter

“60% of Indian men have penises which are between three and five centimeters shorter than international standards used in condom manufacture.”
That’s according to a two-year long study carried out by the Indian Council of Medical Research.
So why is this a big deal?
Because it means “one in every five times a condom is used in […]

December 2006
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