Great News: Vikram Buddhi gets 57 Months in Slammer

No Avakai pickle or Gongura Pulusu for Telugu bidda Vikram Subbarao Buddhi. It’s gonna be bland American prison food for Vikram Buddhi for some more time. U.S. District Court Judge James Moody today sentenced IIT alumnus and Purdue University student Vikram Subbarao Buddhi to prison for a period of 57 months in the United States […]

Hindu Gods Rendered Homeless in Atlanta

Ha ha ha. Even the Hindu Gods in America are falling victim to foreclosure and their ‘Commander’ is helpless to help them. The Hindu Temple of Georgia, which has been in the eye of a storm for its liberal meat and alcohol policies, was sold in a foreclosure auction the other day after failing to […]

U.S. Soccer has an Inferiority Complex – Sunil Gulati

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? […]

Rajaratnam Sings Ponal Poggatum Galleon

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 […]

Chemistry Nobel for Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Jai Ho

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. […]

For the Desi Dunces Dreaming of Spelling Bee Crown

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 […]

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