Day 990: On The Brain Of Late
Posted on May 14, 2008 - Filed Under desi / india, government, science & technology | Leave a Comment
* In another display of his infinite wisdom, our president recently stated that food prices are going up because … wait for it … India’s growing middle class is getting richer and eating too much. First our jobs, now our food? How dare those incorrigible browns! In response, Indians folded up their collective lungi and […]
Read More..>>Day 985: Barack Obollywood
Posted on May 9, 2008 - Filed Under desi / india, funny, government, music | 4 Comments
This one’s for Alli:
Read More..>>Day 976: America’s Continuing Battle With Necessity And Innovation
Posted on April 30, 2008 - Filed Under desi / india, education, global, government, science & technology | 1 Comment
ZDNet: Indian techies snubbing US jobs to stay home
Indian tech graduates are increasingly turning their back on western countries in favor of finding work at home … Between 1964 and 2001 the number of IITians staying in India was 65 per cent but this jumped to 84 per cent between 2002 and 2008.
I suspect most of […]
Day 963: “But I’m Showing My Support For Tibet”
Posted on April 17, 2008 - Filed Under desi / india, global, government | 4 Comments
Melvin Durai takes a swing at the Beijing Olympics
… Inspired by [Aamir] Khan, long jumper Anju Bobby George announced that she will protest China’s human rights abuses by participating in the Beijing Olympics. “I am participating in the Olympics not in support of China,” she said, “but with a prayer in my heart for the people […]
Day 943: Rest In Peace, Sameer
Posted on March 28, 2008 - Filed Under desi / india, health | Leave a Comment
Sameer Bhatia passed away yesterday after a brave battle against leukemia. My thoughts are with his wife and family.
There are many still in need of bone marrow. Sign up for the next drive or find a donor center in your state.
Day 926: Indian Worker Trafficking In KatrinaRitaVille [Update 2]
Posted on March 10, 2008 - Filed Under We Are Not Ok, desi / india, government, new orleans | 2 Comments
The Signal International foreign workers strike continues.
At noon today, D and I saw about a hundred workers congregated and protesting at the Coliseum Square Fountain in the Lower Garden District. Their plan is to take to the streets and make known their grievances with their employer and recruiter. As New Orleans’s WDSU reports, […]
Day 924: Indian Worker Trafficking In KatrinaRitaVille
Posted on March 8, 2008 - Filed Under We Are Not Ok, desi / india, new orleans, recovery | 10 Comments
Never can or will I forget the injustices suffered by South Asian workers around the world. Cheap and expendable to their employers, few industrial workers and ayahs, butlers, cooks and drivers to the world’s wealthiest are treated with simple human dignity when working hard to send money to their families back home. The […]
Read More..>>Day 906: Don’t Fear The Cheese
Posted on February 19, 2008 - Filed Under desi / india, family & friends, government, wisconsin | Leave a Comment
LATimes: Clinton, Obama will watch Wisconsin from afar
… candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton have both moved on, taking their messages to states that vote next month.
… today [Clinton] was in Ohio, which holds a primary on March 4, conducting an economic round-table with voters
… Obama, under attack by the Clinton campaign for being a […]
Day 877: Murder In Cold Blood
Posted on January 21, 2008 - Filed Under crime, desi / india | Leave a Comment
No, not another one in New Orleans, but in North Carolina at Duke University. Sepia Mutiny reports that “on Friday night, a doctoral student [of Indian descent] in the engineering program at Duke University was shot to death in his off-campus apartment.” This comes on the heels of the murders of two Indian graduate students […]
Read More..>>Day 852: We’re Great At Invading All The Wrong Countries
Posted on December 27, 2007 - Filed Under desi / india, government | Leave a Comment
… and placating the leaders of the ones we should go after.
Benazir Bhutto, The First Woman Prime Minister Of An Islamic Nation, Assassinated
The sarcastic, albeit true, party line for why Pakistan was not taken to task by the Americans is that it has no oil. In that case, why didn’t we go after Saudi Arabia, the […]
