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‘Pink Panty’ Women Target Extremist Right Wing...

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 09:26:00 -0500

‘Pink Panty’ Women Target Extremist Right Wing Indian Leader

Apu is a dad...again.

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:40:28 -0500

Well, not really. He’s actually becoming a first-time father:

Hank Azaria and his girlfriend Katie Wright are expecting their first child…a boy…

Hank and Katie - a former actress who is now studying to be a family therapist - have been dating for two years.

The happy couple are currently house hunting to find the perfect family home.

Hank is best known as the voice of three major ‘The Simpsons’ characters, Abu, Moe and Chief Wiggum. (linkage)

Abu? Who is this Abu? Wasn’t that the monkey from Aladdin??

“The exploitation of sex slaves for commercial sex...

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:04:06 -0500

“The exploitation of sex slaves for commercial sex generated profits of $35.7 billion in 2007,” says Siddharth Kara. “This makes slavery second only to drug trafficking in terms of global illicit enterprises.”

More Brownz in Obama-land

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:10:33 -0500

Just received a press release regarding today’s appointees: “President Obama Announces Key Additions to the Office of the White House Counsel”.

It includes one Shomik Dutta.

Shomik Dutta is the Special Assistant to the President’s Counsel, Greg Craig. Mr. Dutta most recently worked as a member of the Presidential Transition Team and had earlier served as Mid-Atlantic Finance Director to the Obama for America campaign for two years. Prior to that, Mr. Dutta worked for Martin O’Malley’s successful gubernatorial campaign in Maryland. Mr. Dutta received his bachelor’s degree from Williams College.

Congrats! You’re the man now, dog.

Comedian Nainan to perform at AAA Fund Dinner

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:27:52 -0400

ASIAN AMERICAN ACTION FUND

Thursday, October 16, 20087 p.m. (VIP reception, 6:30 pm)

Golden Dragon Restaurant
960 N Broadway, Chinatown Los Angeles, CA

$75 Guests / $45 Young Professionals / $25 StudentsVIP levels: $1000* (Host) / $500* (Sponsor) / $250* (Cosponsor) / $100 (Friend)

"There are indeed so few people of color at McCain events that a black senior writer from The..."

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:41:00 -0400

“There are indeed so few people of color at McCain events that a black senior writer from The Tallahassee Democrat was mistakenly ejected by the Secret Service from a campaign rally in Panama City in August, even though he was standing with other reporters and showed his credentials. His only apparent infraction was to look glaringly out of place.”

- Frank Rich writing in the NYT

Good thing he wasn’t wearing a Turban, eh?

SABA-DC Townhall Event in DC on Wed night

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:39:00 -0400

The South Asian Bar Association of Washington, DC will host a political town hall event that will feature speakers representing the Obama and McCain presidential campaigns, with a focus on each candidate’s positions on issues of importance to the South Asian community. The Obama campaign will be represented by The Honorable Preeta Bansal, former Solicitor General of the State of New York and a senior policy advisor to the campaign. The McCain campaign will be represented by Asheesh Agarwal, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice and Special Counsel to the campaign. The program will be moderated by Amol Sharma of the Wall Street Journal.

The program is being co-sponsored by all major South Asian organizations in the DC metropolitan area (listed below). It will be an informative, audience-driven event that will focus on each candidate’s appeal to the South Asian community.

The event is intended to focus on the candidates and how each may benefit our community.
DATE: October 8, 2008 TIME: 7:00pm LOCATION: Georgetown University Law Center, Gewirz 12 ADDRESS: Gewirz Student Center, 120 F Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
METRO: Union Station (Red Line)

“Children dress up as Indian independence leader Mahatma...

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:10:26 -0400

“Children dress up as Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi during a peace rally in Amritsar on the eve of his 139th birthday.” via the Beeb

My Holiday with McCain

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:27:41 -0400

Via the SM Tip Line, a desi Clinical Psychologist has some not so nice things to say about John McCain.

It was just before John McCain’s last run at the presidential nomination in 2000 that my husband and I vacationed in Turtle Island in Fiji with John McCain, Cindy, and their children, including Bridget (their adopted Bangladeshi child). It was not our intention, but it was our misfortune to be in close quarters with John McCain for almost a week since Turtle Island has a small number of bungalows and their focus on communal meals force all vacationers who are there at the same time to get to know each other intimately.

Top Afghan Policewoman shot dead by Taliban outside her house in...

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:58:33 -0400

Top Afghan Policewoman shot dead by Taliban outside her house in Khandahar. [link]

I was innocently looking up what the weather was like, when I...

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:44:53 -0400

I was innocently looking up what the weather was like, when I did a double-take at the ads Yahoo! decided to serve my way. Funny name obviously means higher probability of self-hatred, right? Wrong. On many levels.

Slumdog Millionaire gets Best Picture award at Toronto film...

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:05:11 -0400

Slumdog Millionaire gets Best Picture award at Toronto film festival

MIA launches her own clothing line. Fugly or the next new look?

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:00:15 -0400

MIA launches her own clothing line. Fugly or the next new look?

Bridget McCain is on the cover of People mag— with her...

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:27:44 -0400

Bridget McCain is on the cover of People mag— with her family, of course. While she wasn’t interviewed personally, I thought the article was interesting. Def worth a read while standing in line at the grocery store. :)

Oddly, I'll bet we'll never see a bollywood remake of this film ...

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:26:04 -0400

Crew on an Air India passenger jet discovered a snake coiled up under a seat and were unable to catch it as it slithered around the plane, the airline said on Thursday. It evaded capture by slipping into an air vent and could not be found even when staff unscrewed panels inside the fuselage, opened all the doors and fumigated the plane. [Link]

Cheee! All these disrespectful little monkeys should get a tight...

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:05:03 -0400

Cheee! All these disrespectful little monkeys should get a tight slap for stepping on books!

/IndianAuntie, out.

Doesn’t she kind of look like Aishwariya Rai? Bizarro Rai maybe? ST.PAUL, MI - Sunita...

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:26:39 -0400

Doesn’t she kind of look like Aishwariya Rai? Bizarro Rai maybe?

ST.PAUL, MI - Sunita Krishna made history at the Republican National Convention on Sept.1 becoming the first Indian-American to deliver the Pledge of Allegiance. She is an Alternate Delegate from John McCain’s home state, Arizona.

Sunita who has been blogging for a Tuscon newspaper wrote about her experience: “Today was the big day: my debut on national television opening the convention with the Pledge of Allegiance.

The party that glows in the dark

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:22:37 -0400

According to Peniel Joseph on PBS, the delegates to this convention are 93% White, 5% Hispanic, and 2% Black. Unlike in 2000, the GOP has ceded the attempt to woo minority voters. Really surprised not to see more Latino delegates.

Vogue India’s August issue presented a 16-page vision of supple handbags, bejeweled clutches and...

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:26:53 -0400

Vogue India’s August issue presented a 16-page vision of supple handbags, bejeweled clutches and status-symbol umbrellas, modeled not by runway stars or the wealthiest fraction of Indian society who can actually afford these accessories, but by average Indian people.

Perhaps not surprisingly, not everyone in India was amused.

The editorial spread was “not just tacky but downright distasteful” said Kanika Gahlaut, a columnist for the daily newspaper Mail Today that is based here, who denounced it as an “example of vulgarity.”

There’s nothing “fun or funny” about putting a poor person in a mud hut in clothing designed by Alexander McQueen, she said in a telephone interview. “There are farmer suicides here, for God’s sake” she said, referring to thousands of Indian farmers who have killed themselves in the last decade because of debt.

"When Mr. Obama asked how he could help, Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana told Mr. Obama that he could..."

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:04:10 -0400

“When Mr. Obama asked how he could help, Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana told Mr. Obama that he could help amplify the message of the mandatory evacuation, particularly among the black residents of New Orleans. So on Sunday morning, Mr. Obama conducted telephone interviews with four New Orleans television stations and one radio station, lending his voice to those who were warning residents to heed the evacuation order.”

- nyt