IT'S CHAI TIME
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QUOTA OF QUOTES
August 2011 - “People say, ‘You are supporting Muslim kids; they are terrorists.’ I say, ‘We're giving them a free lunch. I believe in humanity. That is my religion.’”—Jaya Basu, a Los Gatos, Calif., woman who founded Promise Worldwide.
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Prepone Your Appointment
August 2011 - Daniel D’Mello, a Mumbai-based writer for CNNGo.com, has put together a list of what he calls “10 Classic Indianisms.” The most famous Indianism of all time, he contends, is “prepone,” a word that he’d like to see in all English dictionaries.
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MISSED CALLS
August 2011 - If someone says to you, “Give me a missed call,” you’d probably be confused—unless you’ve recently lived in India, where many people find the missed call quite useful.
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Desi Satire: The Challenge of Being a Stay-at-Home Dad
August 2011 - I mostly write emails to my wife with questions such as: “Why isn’t the baby drinking from the bottle? Doesn’t she like Coke?” and “Is it okay if the baby watches Law & Order with me? She seems to like it.”
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The Vikas Swarup File
August 2011 - “The second book is always the most difficult to write—there’s the ‘second book syndrome’—especially when the first book has become a big success. The pressure on the second book is much more.” (SPOT Philippines)
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Desi Fun Online
August 2011 - Cheesy Proposal? / Geometric Art
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Did That Really Happen?
August 2011 - True or False? 1. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s pregnancy was announced on Twitter by her father-in-law, Amitabh. ...
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The Maulik Pancholy File
July 2011 - “When I was an undergrad at Northwestern, there was definitely a part of my cultural identity that I shied away from, that I was very distanced from – and that was the Indian part of me.”
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Desi Satire
July 2011 - Bollywood actors enjoy great fame and adulation in India, but when they visit Western countries, they often go unrecognized. Such was the case for several who walked the red carpet at the recent Cannes Film Festival.
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QUOTA OF QUOTES
July 2011 - “Bollywood girls are much slimmer than their counterparts down South. The size zero phenomenon would not be appreciated in the South. The men like their women to be fleshier.” – Actress Priyamani