I am a people’s person; I like to be with people. So I thought it would be a good opportunity to be connected with my country and work for my country abroad at the same time. – Devyani Khobragade on why she joined the Indian Foreign Service Source: Indian Panorama Senior Indian diplomat and cutie […]
(Thanks to SI Blog reader Desimom99) NRI Telugu bidda Raghunandan Yandamuri’s upcoming court trial for murder, kidnapping and a litany of other offenses is getting a new rival for attention of the Telugu diaspora in America. Venkata Venna, whose daughter and mother were allegedly killed by Raghunandan Yandamuri in October last year, has recently launched […]
Soon after I read Brotherly Love, the poignant story of two brothers Subhash and Udayan, in the New Yorker (June 10, 2013), I became eager to read Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland from which the short story is excerpted. Fast forward three months. I’ve read The Lowland. Death – Not the End Spanning four generations and […]
Telugu bidda and serial groper Srinivasa Erramilli surrendered to the prison authorities on October 30, 2013 to start serving his nine-month prison term for abusive sexual contact (groping a 65-year-old female co-passenger on an aircraft). The 46-year-old Aurora, IL resident has also filed an appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit […]
Telugu bidda Raghunandan Yandamuri’s recent bombshell decision to fire his state-appointed attorney and argue his murder and kidnapping case himself has left the court authorities stumped in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. The trial of Raghunandan Yandamuri, who is charged with the murders of 61-year-old Satyavathi Venna and her 10-month-old granddaughter Saanvi Venna and a litany of […]
(Thanks to VK) Like a wild elephant that tramples everything in its path, notorious Telugu bidda Raghunandan Yandamuri went on a verbal rampage Sunday, with a blistering attack on his public defender lawyer, the Indian consulate, the Pennsylvania police and his fellow inmates in the county jail. The 27-year-old Telugu, who is battling charges of […]