According to this People magazine story updated a few hours ago, Jaime Pressly (best known as Joy on the NBC sitcom My Name Is Earl (she won an Emmy for it) has got engaged to Simran Singh, an entertainment lawyer.
The name…
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News! Now US State Department has an office of Special Representative to Muslim Communities (SRMC), and Hillary Clinton has appointed Farah Pandith as its head. So, who is Farah Pandith?
According to the State Department press release,
Pandith, a Muslim, immigrated…
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Jimmy Kimmel, the late night comedian, apparently has this annual routine where he invites the year’s spelling bee winner to his show and goes head to head with them in a weird spelling test. Although he has been apparently winning…
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A bunch of thirteen year old kids of Indian origin ruled the roost at the Scripps National Spelling Bee tonight. Out of 11 finalists, more than half (Ramya Auroprem, Aishwarya Pastapur, Sidharth Chand, Neetu Chandak, Anamika Veeramani, Tussah Heera, and…
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Anoop Desai was great this week.
My skeptical attitude in last week’s post about Anoop Desai’s re-entry into American Idol has proven wrong. He got mauled by the judges last week, but survived in audience voting. This week, he was back with…
I have not been watching American Idol regularly, but seeing desi kid Anoop Desai on the show had sparked some interest in me. Then in last week’s episode, I turned the TV off when he was not one of the top twelve…
Google’s TV Raman is one eye-opener of a personality. Dr. Raman cannot see, and his occasional blog posts about features of web accessibility for the visually impaired are really useful and interesting, also for the rest of us. In his latest…
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Listening to Sanjay Patel’s interview on NPR’s The World last week was a pleasant experience. Sanjay seems to be one hell of a creative person. He works on cartoon characters for Pixar. Having worked on hit animation films like “Monsters, Inc.“,…
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Continuing the series of Indian names heard in America, I am profiling Dr. Natwar M. Gandhi today. Dr. Gandhi is the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for the District of Columbia (Washington DC). Born in Savar Kundla, Gujarat in 1941 in…
Under this category, InhiA (Indian names heard in America) I will be talking about just that – Indian names heard in America, and finding out how much of Indian origin the person is. What better name to start with than…
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