Desi girl Tussah Heera, a home-schooled desi girl from Las Vegas, has been knocked out of the Spelling Bee 2009 finals. Tussah Heera (Image: Spelling Bee) Tussah was tripped by the word herniorrhaphy. * Speller No. 158, Tussah Heera Age, Grade: 13, Eighth Grade School: Home School, Las Vegas, Nevada Sponsor:Las Vegas Review-Journal, Las Vegas, […]
Seven desis have made it to the Spelling Bee 2009 Finals. That is 7 out of a total of 11 finalists, folks. Desis account for a mere 0.67% of America’s population but a whopping 64% of the Spelling Bee 2009 finalists Here are the seven Indian American Spelling Bee 2009 finalists: * Speller No. 19, […]
Desis account for a mere 0.67% of America’s population but a whopping 37% of the Spelling Bee 2009 semifinalists. Related Stories: 15 Desis Make it to Spelling Bee 2009 Semifinals Desis Fare Well in Spelling Bee 2009 Early Rounds Sameer Mishra Wins Spelling Bee 2008
Statistic of the Day – Desis in Spelling Bee 2009Â OK, folks. We’re back from our beer-induced siesta and lo, what do we find – 15 desi kids made it to the 2009 Spelling Bee semifinals 15 out of 31 desi kids who cleared the early rounds of 2009 Spelling Bee are now in the […]
Update: Kavya Shivashankar is Spelling Bee 2009 Champion Folks, two rounds of the Spelling Bee 2009 are already over. And so far, our desi kids have covered themselves with glory. As we type this post, Round Three is going on in Washington DC . There are at least 31 Desi students among the 293 contestants who […]
Who would have thought this. A desi babe in the Playboy Top 10 List of Sexiest CEOs. Whoa. Yippee. Yes, sir. Our own Rashmi Sinha is in the Playboy’s Top 10 Sexiest CEOs. Uncork the Dom Pérignon. The picture of Rashmi on the Playboy web site is not that cute but she looks better below. […]