A man carrying a Nepali flag stands atop a statue of king Mahindra, an image destined to be as iconic as the Chinese protester in Tiananmen Square. In formally voting to become a republic yesterday, Nepal became the first country to drive its monarch from office since Iran.
It was also the last Hindu monarchy, an […]
11-year-old Akshay Rajagopal from Nebraska just won $25K in the National Geographic Bee, correctly answering ‘Bolivia’ in a contest hosted by Alex Trebek of Jeopardy:
Not only did 11-year-old Akshay Rajagopal know that Cochabamba was a city in Bolivia, he also didn’t stumble when National Geographic Bee host Alex Trebek referred to it as the South […]
Several witnesses said the aircraft barely left the ground as it attempted to take off on Tuesday afternoon, but smashed through a wall and broke up as it hit shops and houses in the commercial district of Goma. A former pilot, Dunia Sindani, who was among the passengers, told a local radio station that the […]
Pravin Sathe shows us what overlapping multiple versions of the same TV news story look like in How You See It. [ via waxy]
In a cross between Election and the U.S. elections, Oxford student Krishna Omkar was banned for life from the Oxford Union debating society’s presidency because he (gasp!) lobbied people to vote for him. His opponent Charlotte Fischer, a Tracy Flick soundalike, actually brought in a barrister to force the issue. Members saw that as […]
Loins of Punjab
Four hundred years ago:
… suddenly, a tiger rushed forward… leaping straight towards [emperor Jahangir]… Bullets and arrows were showered from all sides but they went to right and left of the tiger… [Guru Har Gobind] dismounted from his horse… Just as the tiger was about to spring upon the Emperor, Guru Har Gobind […]
Minivan crashing into TV studio during the 10pm newscast: $50,000. Ravi Baichwal’s reaction all over national TV: priceless.
He is married to journalist Sonja Nordahl and has two children, Tejas and Gabriella India. [Link]
Racist fire apparently hits only desi homes, news at 11
Southern California is burning. 250,000 people are on the move. A desi techie loses his apartment in a wildfire, and what’s the first thing he saves?The only thing I managed to save was my H-1 visa
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His H-1B visa! Let his family photos burn, but damn if […]
Over a hundred Bhutto supporters are reported to have perished in the attack on her motorcade. Metblogs Karachi is liveblogging:
Several journalists including a local private TV channel cameraman have now been identified among the dead… Geo is putting the number of dead at 124 and the number of injured at no less than 545… Questions […]
So it isn’t just ‘Calcutta’ and ‘Bombay’ getting the postcolonial heave-ho
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 […]
Not only did the Queens taxi driver graciously accept a passenger’s 30-cent tip on a nearly $11 ride, but hours later he tracked her down and returned the black travel bag she left in the cab’s trunk.
It contained two small display cases with 31 diamond rings tucked inside.
He never considered keeping the sparkling treasure for […]
It’s been four days since the fifth anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks and for whatever reason, I’ve been combing the news for some substantive introspective-retrospective on the event. However, the only thing I’m finding are chronological eulogies that open with the oft-repeated phrase “In the wake of 9/11…â€
Which isn’t unusual, because […]
The Montreal college shooter appears to have been a Punjabi Sikh Canadian:
A man whose shooting rampage in a Montreal college killed one person and wounded 19 others before he was slain by police said on a blog that he liked to play a role-playing Internet game about the Columbine shootings.
The gunman who opened fire at […]