All governments violate the basic rights of their citizens in the interests of the powerful and the wealthy. Nothing new about it. Right through history, it’s been that way whatever be the form of government in any country you look at. India, China, Nazi Germany, Vietnam, Argentina, Chile, Cuba, South Africa, Pol Pot’s Cambodia, the […]
Korean rapper PSY’s Gangnam Style music video is already the third most viewed video on YouTube. I think the “Dress Classy and Dance Cheesy” video is nonsense, albeit amusing nonsense. But way more entertaining than Dhanush’s Kolaveri junk. By the way, is there an Indian parody of Gangnam Style? Related Content: Gangnam Style, Original and […]
On the few occasions I’ve watched Fareed Zakaria’s show on CNN, I’ve hated the bozo. His weekly shows on CNN are awful, even for those like yours truly who love to watch an Indian face on TV in America. Unlike my favorite yesteryear ABC journalist and TV host Sam Donaldson, Fareed Zakaria behaves like a […]
We got to do something about these Asians coming in and opening up businesses and dirty shops … They ought to go. I’m going to say that right now. But we need African-American businesspeople to be able to take their places, too. – Former Washington DC Mayor, former Crack Cocaine User, former Prisoner, Current member […]
There is no such thing as “Indian food.” It’s a fabrication of the West. Each state has its own regional cuisines: Maharashtra, Gujarat, Bengal. And then even the states have subcategories — there’s coastal Maharashtrian, inland Maharashtrian, Muslim-influenced. Sadly, what most of the world knows today as Indian food is bastardized, trivialized — tandoori chicken, […]
We’ve always considered SI readers a notch above readers of other blogs and generally above other bipeds. So, we’re conducting a simple quiz to test your General Knowledge (as it’s known in India). With sleep eluding us, we got up from bed a few minutes back, picked up a bottle of Arizona Blueberry White Tea […]