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

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

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
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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

In Sickness and In Health

A lesbian couple in the Indian state of Orissa has gotten married.
A priest belonging to the Korput district’s Kandha tribe presided over the ceremony, uniting Wetka Polang, 30, with her partner Melka Nilsa, 22.
The community, initially resistant to the idea of two women marrying, ultimately gave its blessings to the union.
Said village elder, Melka Powla, […]

December 2006

New King of Bollywood?

“It seems like the Indian filmmakers are pushing boundaries in terms of pushing the censors. I think Bollywood is an interesting place for filmmakers to go.”
So says Oscar-winning perennial bachelor George Clooney, in a recent interview with the CNN-IBN channel.
Clooney is a fan of Bollywood films, and apparently wants to star in one: “I’d love […]

December 2006

Giant Buddhas Come to New York

Time magazine calls it “A subdued, indeed Zen-like rumination on the things that war spoils.”
We call it a worthwhile way to spend a Thursday night.
If you’re in the New York area, check out Christian Frei’s documentary The Giant Buddhas, a meditation on the senseless destruction of Afghanistan’s historic Buddha statues.
The Asia Society (725 […]

December 2006
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