Our beloved Mallika Sherawat has embarked upon the American Dream for herself. And begun rather well. With a stylish new fake amru accent. Go, Mallika Go. And please hurry! Welcome back to Amreekandesi! If you liked this post, please comment or 'like' so we know! Subscribe to our RSS feed and get regular updates...
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Tags: American Dream, fake accents, mallika sherawat, Movie Shovie
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So Shahrukh Khan says that My Name Is Khan, and that is the reason for being hassled in Newark. That incidentally also happens to be the title of his upcoming film. Not saying anything here, but people have been known to do some rather interesting things to promote their movies. As always, we jobless...
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Tags: airport, american immigration, green card, my name is khan, newark shahrukh, racial profiling, shahrukh detained at airport, Shahrukh Khan, us visa
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So the Indian students stabbed an Australian with a scew driver, and have started patrolling the streets. Soon they will march up to their seat of government, acquire it, and proclaim Australia an Indian colony. WTBF! I have been an Indian student in the US, following which i lived a happy few years before...
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Tags: attacks on indian students, australi education, indian immigrants in australit, indian protests in australia, indian students in australia
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Here’s one powerful Indian man. Manjit Singh, a 59 year old security consultant showed off his strength on reality show Britain’s Got Talent. First Singh blew up a hot water bottle, till it actually BLEW up. He followed up by pulling a car that looked like a Maruti Omni using his right ear. He...
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Tags: Britain's got talent, hot water bottle burst, manjit singh, pull car with ear, simon cowell, superman manjit
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Indian Sunita Williams was on the Colbert Report yesterday. For those not in the loop, Williams is a NASA astronaut who holds the record for the longest space flight by a woman – 195 days. That’s six months and a half of gravity-less existence. The Colbert Report is a talk show hosted by Stephen...
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Tags: NASA, space station, space station module 3, stephen colbert, sunita williams, the colbert report
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For many years commentators have lamented how India has lost its brightest brains to the west – the phenomenon lovingly referred to as the Brain Drain. It appears that we are seeing another trend these days…the brains that had gotten drained seem to be heading back to India. There’s new phraseology in town: Reverse...
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Tags: American Dream, brain drain, green card, H1b visa, immigration, indians returning to India, IT industry, reverse brain drain
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Ever since 9/11 happened seven years ago, we have seen several hate crimes committed against Sikhs, ostensibly due to the much portrayed image of the Taliban supremo. People have historically committed mistakes in identifying/recognizing people, but what do you do when Sikhs start being called Arabs? Of course, why all Arabs should be discriminated...
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Tags: air travel, Amreeka, arab, Desi, hate crime, racial profiling, sikh, TSA
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Readers might rewind their brains to many years ago, when there was this huge outcry about an American company acquiring patent rights over Basmati rice. Yes, the very same Basmati rice that we Indians have been cultivating for, for, forever. How dare they? Basmati is India, spelt in seven letters. Well, they were told...
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Tags: basmati, basmati rice patent, biopiracy, India, jasmati, kasmati, rice, ricetec, texmati
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