Well, well, who’d have thought this. An Indian-born Columbia University economist as president of the United States Soccer Federation. Born in Allahabad, Sunil Gulati grew up in Nebraska, studied at Columbia, worked at the World Bank and is now president of the United States Soccer Federation. Oh, our desi also teaches at Columbia. Interesting, na? […]
Yesterday’s Tamil hedge fund mapillai but today’s alleged Wall Street criminal and billionaire Raj Rajaratnam is winding down his Galleon hedge fund. In a letter to investors, Rajaratnam, who was arrested last Friday on insider trading charges and is now out on $100 million bail, wrote: I have decided that it is now in the […]
Jai ho, Karuppiah. Oh boy, our Karuppiahs a.k.a Tamils are all over the place. No kidding. Indian-American Venkatraman Ramakrishnan has won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on mapping the ribosomes at the atomic level. Born in 1952 in the temple town of Chidambaram in Tamil Nadu, India, Venkatraman got a Ph.D. […]
It’s the desi elders who dream of the Spelling Bee wreath. As they cajole their young daughters, sons or in-betweens with lusty exhortations to glory, these desis from Mayavaram and Mathura, Ranchi and Rewa, Gulbarga and Gorakhpur, Nagpur and Noida refuse to abandon the fantasy of the Spelling Bee wreath aloft the heads of their […]
Update: Anand Jon Pleads Guilty to Molestation Charge in NYC South Indian fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander got a minimum of 59 years in the U.S. slammer today. This means the 36-year-old high-profile fashion designer from the South Indian state of Kerala will be in his 90s before he walks out of prison. That is, […]
Oh boy, our Tamils are all over the place. They really are. Even in places where you’d least expect to find these karuppiahs (dark-skinned creatures). Perhaps, they didn’t use enough Fair & Lovely. 😉 Guess what. The Chief Doctor in the office of Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner for the County of Los Angeles that performed the […]