We’ve blogged here about Bollywood Obama and I’ve written about the Japanese town of Obama’s boppy theme song “Obama is beautiful world.” Now, a couple of young musicians in Surat–Chirag Thakker, Jayesh Gandhi and Anita Sharma–have welcomed Obama into their hearts with this catchy tune that praises our new president. And, here’s a poem by a California based Punjabi poet Pashaura Singh Dhillon
Continue readingIn stark contrast to Anna’s picts of pro-Obama Pakistani kids, Reuters recently published some picts of less than happy Pakistani adults – Obama! Keep Your Hands off my “Tribs”! Supporters of the Pakistani Islamist party Jamat-e-Islami protest in Karachi, January … Continue reading
The ongoing search for all photos and documents from President Obama’s past has turned up a diary that his desi roommate kept in the early 1980s. Some of the entries are quite revealing: Aug. 28, 1981: Barack and I went … Continue reading
Someone on my GChat list had an intriguing link included in their status message. I saw “inauguration”, and since that historic event is still very much on my mind, I clicked it. I was led to the Boston Globe’s website, … Continue reading
An old college photo of Obama appeared at the NYTimes today. The photo features the man who taught Obama how to cook desi food among other things: Sohale Siddiqi (also Hal Siddiqi) was the best friend and roommate of Barack … Continue reading
An anonymous tipster emailed us about a disturbing story out of dirty Jersey: A family who had supported Barack Obama’s presidential campaign emerged from their home in the northwestern New Jersey town of Hardwick Thursday morning to find the charred … Continue reading
[Apologies this was delayed. It took me a while before I was ready to put pen to metaphorical paper on this subject] As an American without hyphen I was gratified to see a consensus emerge around Obama as the better … Continue reading
Well, whether you voted for him or not, history was made yesterday as Barack Obama was elected President of the United States by 52% of voters, a healthy electoral margin, and victories in Virginia, Indiana, Ohio, and probably even North … Continue reading
One of the largest data banks is Catalist, a for-profit company that specializes in providing data for the Obama campaign and various other liberal groups. Turns out its chief technology office is Vijay Ravindran,
Continue readingThe latest Brown Girls comic made me cringe with unease when it popped up on my blogreader this week. Swiped from my latest blog addiction, Devis With Babies, this week’s Brown Girls episode made me wonder just how many similar … Continue reading