It took something like this to bring us back from our summer vacation!

Build your own!
UPDATE:
And when you’re done making it, eat some rice!

From the book “Race Types” in Maury’s New Complete Geography, copyright 1906. It classifies East Indian Raja, Anglo-Saxon, Arab and Hebrew as Caucasian. [ via bb]

Design Within Reach has a tiffin set for, get this, $80. It must come with a tiffin wallah for a few months for that price.

Sudhir Venkatesh sits down with real gang members to review episodes of our favorite show The Wire.

Now that the requisite period of mourning is over for Bhutto’s assassination, we thought it would be interesting to watch one of the assassination attempts on Indira Gandhi caught on film. Note the bravery of security detail (seated in the front row). Note the lack of security on stage left. Note the cat-like […]

A selection of articles about Pakistan from the Atlantic.

One of quite a few that we are sure will surface soon.

Chris Sharma, a sales associate in men’s furnishings at Nordstrom in Tysons Corner shows us the proper way to tie a bow tie.

Some great origami made from money from around the world. Our favorite is Abraham Lincoln wearing a turban.
Thanks PCLD!

VH1’s Best Week Ever has a list of professions that are one step away from extinction. At number four is the job of “Acting and Being Indian - Kal Penn”
There’ll always be bit parts for Indian actors as doctors and goofy telephone operators, but Kal Penn has blazed a trail for the Indian lead […]

Allegedly there’s a new from from M. Night Shyamalan coming out in June called The Happening. After seeing his last few flicks, we can only hope this film has Raj, Dwayne and Rerun as zombies or ghosts or mermaids or a comic book loving guy in a wheelchair living with hippies in a commune […]

Super 7 has just released four new shirts (Ganesha, Kali, Devi and Krishna) from Sanjay Patel and Ghee Happy just in time for the holidays. Right now only children’s and women’s sizes are available. If you are a male hipster, I’m sure you could wear a women’s size and no one would question […]

Looking for that perfect gift this holiday season? May we suggest “Match Book - Indian Matchbook Labels” from Tara Publishing. A great collection of the miniature artwork found on Indian matchbooks. Over 500 illustrations are showcased in this book shaped like, what else, a matchbook.
This book makes the perfect companion piece […]

When Ramesh Venkatesan realised that he wanted to be a woman as a teenager he was too ashamed to tell his family and friends.
He even pretended to be in love with a girl at his college in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.
Today, aged 28, he not only wears a sari and make-up openly […]