desi / india

Seersucker Suit And Sari

July 27, 2010

They go well together. Especially during desi weddings and heat advisories. Tweet

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I Need Me A Hot Pink Sari

July 21, 2010

A rose is a rose is a rose. Slate | Wear a Pink Sari and Carry a Big Stick The founder of the gulabis is the fearless Sampat Pal Devi, 40, who was married off at the age of 12 to an ice-cream vendor and had the first of her five children at 15. The [...]

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Rude Girl

July 16, 2010

The magical power of the YouTubes gives you my new hero: Rani Taj. The “first Kashmiri woman dholi in the UK” and senior player with the DholBlasters. (Thanks, Anil!) I’m not a huge fan of Rihanna’s Rude Boy but think I can bhangra to this version all day. Girlfriend brings it at the 1:55 mark and [...]

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It Couldn’t Happen Here

June 29, 2010

I’ve been talking to people lately. Dave Walker of the New Orleans Times Picayune interviewed me for a piece about the response of blog communities to David Simon’s show, Treme. Walker and I had a nice long phone conversation about The Storm, what kind of person it takes to capture it in a semi-fictional tv [...]

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So Long, And Thanks For All The Machli

June 7, 2010

Manish Vij is shutting down Ultrabrown, a four-year-old Indian-American literature and arts blog, to pursue tech startups (brave) and writing a novel (braver) full-time. You may recognize Manish as co-founder of and former blogger at Sepia Mutiny, which he left to found Ultrabrown with amazing, young writing talent such as Chandrahas Choudhury, Jai Arjun Singh [...]

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Got Your Monkey God Right Here

May 20, 2010

HuffPo | Mark Williams, Tea Party Leader, Says Muslims Worship “Monkey God” The monument would consist of a Mosque for the worship of the terrorists’ monkey-god (repeat: “the terrorists’ monkey-god.” if you feel that fits a description of Allah then that is your own deep-seated emotional baggage not mine, talk to the terrorists who use [...]

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Recipe: Cucumber Kosumalli

March 24, 2010

Yeah, I’m on a bit of a food tear today. Fellow Vatul and multiple-award-winning film producer, Harini, reminded me in a series of tweets that today is Rama Navami, or what Hindus celebrate as the birthday of Lord Rama, the seventh incarnation of Vishnu the Preserver.  New Orleanians get this and some others don’t: Hindus [...]

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Recipe: Rajma Masala

March 24, 2010

For D, Candice and all other interested parties: INGREDIENTS vegetable/canola oil 4 cans of (dark or light) red kidney beans (a.k.a. rajma) – Progresso is best, stay away from Bush’s 1 14 oz. can of diced, steamed, peeled tomatoes 1 small can of tomato paste 2 onions, chopped into little cubes 5 garlic cloves, chopped [...]

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12 Days Of Christmas – Desi Ishtyle

December 25, 2009

Welcome to the first of the twelve days of Christmas. The twelfth day of Christmas marks Epiphany, much more relevant to merrymakers worldwide as the start of Carnival season. See, this is how you keep that tree up until Lent. Just change out all the ornaments. Or pull off only the red baubles and replace [...]

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Recipe: Chana Masala

December 15, 2009

I have received three emails lately asking for my chana (garbanzo beans) masala recipe. Each time, I’ve responded by typing the ingredients and instructions from scratch. My family, like most families actually, doesn’t cook by recipe but by osmosis and eyeball. There’s a lot of “Yup, smells and feels right” and “That much mustard seed [...]

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