Posts Tagged ‘India’

Where the Red Fern Flows  Photo: Aakashnihalani.com

Street artist Aakash Nihalani’s geometrical tape art creates optical illusions using the urban landscape. He often chooses extremely bright tape as his medium, and makes designs that appear 3D  by [...]

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Mallakhamb. Screen Grab from YouTube

The YouTube community is going ape over a video dubbed “Indian Pole Gymnastics,” where young Indian men perform feats of awesome pole-climbing strength. Jokes immediately circulated the bewildered Internet, including [...]

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Some offices allow employees to wear jeans. Some require suits. But what country wears the sharpest wardrobe to work? How about the most sluggish? Reuters conducted a poll between 24 [...]

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Hazratbal Shrine in Srinagar. Photo Credit:AFP/Getty Images

Once in awhile, murder and protests in Kashmir cause ripples in the media. Last week a 17-year-old Kashmiri student was killed by a tear gas canister that blasted into his [...]

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Photo Credit: NBC

In 2006, ShadowCatcher Entertainment released Outsourced, a movie about an American from Seattle who finds himself training a group of employees at a call center in India. A year later, [...]

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June 29th, 2010 by Kishwer
Photo Credit: Chakpak

Heads up, Bollywood fans. Sunil Shetty’s latest movie, Red Alert: the War Within is serious business. According to the film’s website: Red Alert: the War Within is based on the [...]

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June 28th, 2010 by Kishwer
Bollywood star Akshay with Canadian comic, Russell Peters

Move aside, Dudley Do-Right, it’s aboot time for Singh is Kinng Bollywood star Akshay Kumar  to take over Canada. The star wined and dined with Canadian and Indian notables, including [...]

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Hariharan singing live on AR Rahman's Jai Ho: A Journey Home 2010 tour Photo by MTV Iggy

“Many have said that my voice is rather husky compared to other popular playback singers such as S.P. Balasubramanium or Mano. Perhaps this is to my advantage and I have [...]

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Photo Credit: Kisaso

It didn’t take Bollywood long to adapt the story of Indian tennis player Sania Mirza’s romance with Pakistani cricketeer Shoaib Malik and translate it to the big screen. Plans were [...]

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May 26th, 2010 by Kishwer
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You Bollywood cinemaphiles already know that Kites, the recent Bollywood release directed by Anurag Basu and produced by Rakesh Roshan almost didn’t happen after the main star, Hrithik Roshan, had [...]

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Rai with hubby Bachchan. Photo Credit: Bollywood Style Diaries

As the 63rd Annual Cannes Film Festival wrapped up in France this past Sunday, there were three Bollywood actresses who glammed up the red carpet at various screenings: Aishwarya Rai, [...]

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May 25th, 2010 by Kishwer
Lindsay Lohan (L) poses with Indrani (R). Photo Credit: New York Post

Wild child Lindsay Lohan is in the news again with yet more fodder for the gossip rags. According to reports, the 23-year old Lohan’s found a new, much-older lover, the [...]

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Shahid Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor

Only because the saga continues do I feel I must post this blog… I hear Kareena Kapoor has been giving the producer of Milenge Milenge sleepless nights by constantly postponing the [...]

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Aishwarya Rai and Martin Scorsese: Charmed, I'm sure.

Aishwarya Rai in a Martin Scorsese film? Wow, this should be good (thank God she finally learned how to act!) Apparently he loved her in Sanjay Leela Bansali’s Devdas. Scorsese [...]

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May 18th, 2010 by Adriane
Yeah, that's the white guy as hero in the foreground. Foolish Indians behind... Photo Credit: NBC.com

Earlier this year, we looked forward to a plethora of sitcoms on American TV that will star Indian American faces. Now, we’re wondering if it’s too late to take it [...]

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May 12th, 2010 by MissMalini
Salman Khan and Deepika Padukone

It’s nice to see Salman Khan finally being so mature… NOT! Apparently Sallu isn’t too keen on romancing Deepika Padukone in brother-in-law Atul Agnihotri’s next film. (And earlier he dropped Anees Bazme’s project [...]

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May 12th, 2010 by MissMalini
DJ Pearl (photo courtesy: Girish Mansharamani)

Last Saturday night, the Smirnoff Experience made a comeback at the Renaissance, Powai after a two-year hiatus. Nikhil Chinapa, DJ Pearl, Jalebee Cartel (did they play? I didn’t see them…) and Cosmic [...]

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Photo Credit: The Sa Dance Company

“If you’re looking for snap, grace and crackle in dance, then look no further than The Sa Dance Company,” said one of our favorite film directors, Mira Nair, of her [...]

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May 7th, 2010 by MissMalini
Saif Ali Khan on GQ India's May issue

So you saw Deepika Padukone on the cover of Vogue, now check out Saif Ali Khan gracing the cover of GQ! Psst! Saif shares the new rules of dating & divorce and [...]

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Beijing's MIDI Music Festival Day 3

What’s really going on in China? Nothing like taking it to the streets to this year’s MIDI Music Festival in Beijing to find out. Read about the festival here, and [...]

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