Some years back, deep in the heart of the Midwest I went with some friends to a hard-core evangelical music concert, which filled the basketball stadium of a large big-ten school. During the concert, a guy stopped to give a spiel about family, love, blah...blah. Then he concluded by saying how "our god Jesus" was great and he was not phony like Krishna or Gandhi. My highly educated friends did not say anything about it. Now, I wasn't particularly offended, but I couldn't help but laugh because he couldn't tell the difference between and Krishna and Gandhi. The awareness level of the hard-core evangelicals is pretty low, but their commitment and passion is rather scary. Besides, the concert was complete crap because after a while they run out of ideas to talk about--oh, I mean sing about.

Amit,

You mean something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQJKeHepD6w&mode=related&search=

Amit, Since I can't leave a comment on your blog, I will take the liberty of doing so on Manish's blog. It is kinda wierd putting a face to the blog. I had my own vision of how you would look. See, I always had a vision of how Jason Bourne would look...Matt Damon?! Congrats and good luck with the award.

uhhhhhhh....gghhhhhh....silk smitha....i can only think about thunder thighs....wuh, wuh.

http://indulekha.com/moviegallery/2006/07/silk-smitha.html

Don't forget ladies/gents that this country was founded on extreme violence. An entire group of peoples (the other Indians) were made nearly extinct, their indigenous cultures wiped out, and their lands appropriated. Early "Christian" settlers deliberately gave clothing infected with poxvirus to the Native Americans who had no natural resistance to it. Right after that this country started capturing and enslaving another race, it took a civil war to win emancipation, and hundred years later civil rights to win equal freedoms. If all desi's in this country were here in the late 1950s or 60s, I don't think we could have shared a drinking water fountain with the goras. Well, all of this was justified in the name of religion. Look at the idiots who populate the Senate, Trent Lott (a certified racist and bigot), who paid homage to another certified racist and bigot—Jesse Helms, and Lindsey Graham from South Carolina, what a f#@$# lun-bin. Many of the founding fathers were screwing their African slaves, while talking about god and freedoms. Let me save my comments on the 2000 years of intra-Christian conflicts, the crusades, the savagery in the name of god, and the holocaust for another day. Christianity has a proud history of blood in its hands.

It has always been my theory that the birth-place for modern Islamic radicalism is in UK and Pakistan assisted by Saudi money. If you look at Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq, the madrassa culture is rather weak (or was rather weak).

The Saudi royal family does not want to do anything with radicals, because these guys want to rip Saudi's of the control over the Holy mosque in Mecca, it would be ruin of the Saudi royal family, so they have spread their good work outside their boundaries. Radicalism in Pakistan was engendered by American policies/Saudi money, and the UK radicalism was engendered by instances of overt racism against Pakistani settlers. Now, it has morphed into a powerful force that attracts Indians, Africans, Pakistani, and anyone else.

Feroz Khan kho burah muth kahoo...yaar, woh ishtyle king hai.

you should the clips in the youtube, apparently this dress style was inspired by Johnny Deep in the Pirates.

From Sunday NY Times, Letters to the Editor

To the Editor:

Re “America the Generous: A Lost Story of Citizenship,” by Lawrence Downes (Editorial Observer, May 27): When my four grandparents immigrated to this country, every immigrant who was in good health was granted admission at Ellis Island.

Today their grandchildren are making important contributions to our country. Among us are one cardiologist, one Ph.D. researcher, two teachers and two business people.

The energy, motivation, talent and intelligence that immigrants bring to our shores did not end with my grandparents and their progeny. Two years ago my mother’s life was saved by a brilliant, committed geriatrician — who was also a new American citizen of Indian birth.

When we say no to those who are willing to give up their homes, extended families and languages to join us in this great adventure called America, we cut ourselves off from an incredibly vital source of renewal. It is that renewal which is at the core of our greatness as a nation.

Denise Gelberg
Ithaca, N.Y., May 27, 2007

In the last 8 months I have dealt with four different desi doctors, two female and two male under different circumstances, and I have to admit they were fantastic! Now, that cannot be said for all desi doctors, I have met some terrible ones. One thing to keep in mind with desi doctors born and trained in India is that they are blunt. They will say things and ask you questions that White doctors would dare to pose!!

Congrats, UB guys...what can UB do for Us in the coming years...that is the question. Have you guys heard from Macca Aunty yet?