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 […]
* Prabhakaran dead, war on LTTE over: Lanka (Times of India) * Sri Lankans Say Rebels Crushed and Leader Killed (New York Times) * Sri Lankan rebel leader ‘killed’ (BBC) * LTTE chief Prabhakaran dead (Hindu) * Prabhakaran shot dead while trying to break army siege: Army (DNA) * Sri Lanka: Tamil leader has been […]
After being squashed by the Sri Lankan Army, the LTTE says its guns are silenced (in plain English, the LTTE is conceding defeat). If true, this is wondrous news indeed and a day the suffering Tamils have been waiting for decades. For nearly three decades, the LTTE monsters have wantonly massacred several thousand people including […]
Folks, here we are for the quarter-century edition of Incredible India. So all ye schmucks in ignoranceville think our President Barack Obama faces a threat only from the Al Queda or the right-wing extremists in the U.S. Shows how little you know. You see, the Biharis are second to none when it comes to violence. […]
Whoever said America is the Land of Opportunities is wrong. Dead wrong. Folks, America is the Land of Coupons. The dominant motif of this land is a discount coupon. No more, and certainly no less. But even we – yes, cynical we, who think we’ve seen it all – were surprised at what we found […]