Sanjaya Malakar’s ponyhawk is apparently an all-purpose metaphor:

Here are screenshots of a four-foot-tall brat playing Yuvraj Singh Cricket 2007 on the Xbox 360. He was so much better than me, I meekly handed back the controller after usurping it when he wasn’t looking. He dismissed me by subtly inclining his head.

A British man has reportedly moved to Gujarat and is blessing devotees of a eunuch deity. But the existing eunuchs at the temple grouse that Steve Cooper of Tooting still has all his equipment:

‘Some Gujaratis in London, noticing Stephen’s eunuch-like body language and behaviour, helpfully told him about the Bahucharaji temple’… ‘He even got a […]

Leno, Letterman, O’Reilly, O’Donnell, Kimmel, CNN, Fox. ‘Maelstrom’ doesn’t begin to describe what Sanjaya Malakar’s ponyhawk hath wrought.
Bill ‘Loofah’ O’Reilly gets an Italian-American lawyer, a former Brooklyn prosecutor, to huff about whether American Idol should sue Howard Stern for supporting Sanjaya. Which is even more brainless than the show:

Larry King shows Letterman’s dig at Sanjaya, […]

My beta is a good blend of east and west

Wealthy Sikhs will attempt to purchase a marble bust of Duleep Singh when it goes on auction next month:
Fashioned by renowned British sculptor John Gibson almost 150 years ago, the marble sculpture of Duleep Singh — the dashing son of the legendary Ranjit Singh — is […]

Posters of The Namesake at downtown Bombay’s art deco Eros theater:

Being Punjabi, living in Bombay, working with customers in the U.S., I’ve figured out how to never work a day in my life. Here’s the secret:
Celebrate every holiday.
All of them. Take every U.S., Indian, Hindu, Punjabi and Maharashtran holiday and merge them until your Outlook become as sea of beautiful, striped off days.
Thanksgiving? Check. Diwali? […]

What does it say about India’s Pamela Anderson when she looks more human in tiger stripes than makeup?
Though judging from the girl I saw at a Bombay café the other day, leopard-print salwars are in.

The Big Brother star locked herself in a cell to attract people’s attention towards the atrocities [against]animals at circuses… [Link]
And there […]

Saturday Night Live parodies Sanjaya Malakar on American Idol, complete with bawling fans in the audience. Priceless!

I’m not sure why BusinessWeek is covering Himesh Reshammiya (thanks Nainish), whose catchy tunes are all starting to sound the same. But bless them for running this photo of a great man whom DesiDancer aptly dubs ‘brown Liberace.’ I believe this would be Sonu Nigam’s salmon-colored Mandarin tuxedo with cream ruffles. Technically speaking.
This is a […]

Released early this year, the novel Graffiti My Soul by British author Niven Govinden (We Are the New Romantics) is on balance an interesting read (thanks, Jana). This tightly-written, high-end melodrama revolves around a Tamil and Jewish 15-year-old from south of the Thames, his unrequited crush and vicious high school politics:

This is Surrey where nothing […]

India’s Zoom channel is running a cricket-themed comedy show for the World Cup called Yo Maan. It stars comedian Suresh Menon in blackface with a silent bimbo by his side.
Here’s Menon in real life:

He’s credited as both Kal and Kalpen in the schizophrenic Namesake

I wanted to love the Namesake movie. I loved the trailer. It’s the first mainstream movie about the Indian-American experience. This could have been my story. It’s also a trip back to immigration nostalgia. I read Slashdot at Lodhi Gardens and see Pakistani protests on […]

Here are photos from Shakira’s Bombay concert last night and the perp walk at the airport. As far as I’ve heard, there was no badly exoticized Indian dance on stage. I’m not sure what it is about Lebanese-Latinas, but my gym’s personal trainers approve.
Related post: Hips do lie

PortaGranny:

The India-Sri Lanka Cricket World Cup match last night was an infestation of intrusive advertisements. If you listened on radio, you got two ads every three minutes. On TV, you got three ads every three minutes. And not different ads — the same three ads on perpetual rotation. Soap, biscuits, motorcycle. Soap, biscuits, motorcycle.
It was […]

Jamaican police say former Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer, born in Kanpur when it was still called Cawnpore, was strangled to death during the Cricket World Cup:

Pakistan’s cricket coach Bob Woolmer was strangled in his hotel room after the team’s shocking World Cup loss to Ireland, police said Thursday…. the pathologist report found Bob Woolmer’s […]

The consensus is that Russell Peters was a hit in Bombay. He flew in a few months ago to work on local material for this city, Bangalore and Delhi. I ran into him late one night at the Taj Lands End in Bandra; he had three groupies on his arm, whom he probably expensed as […]

Sanjaya Malakar, patron saint of boy band lovers everywhere, was saved again on American Idol by the voting blocs of Vote for the Worst, Howard Stern and screaming tweens. With his combination of good looks and incompetence, he should do very well as a Bush administration appointee.

And adds a tall glass of shut the eff up!