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OctoberOct 29 Thursday 09
Jessica Simpson Goes Native
Jessica Simpson was in India filming for her new reality show “The Price of Beauty.” We were going to write something snarky about her going native but others did a better job.
She’s also sporting a bindi which is the final nail in the coffin for her country …
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OctoberOct 17 Saturday 09
Kanye East
Like the Beatles before him, Kanye West will chill out in India for a while, presumably to return with a kaleidoscope double album’s worth of classic new material. Following his no-show at Saturday’s BET awards, multiple sources report that he has decamped to an …
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SeptemberSep 24 Thursday 09
Vascular Embolisms
Fox TV’s musical-themed Glee has a character named Mr. Figgins played by Iqbal Theba who gets blackmailed for his Mumbai Air vascular embolism commercial.
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SeptemberSep 19 Saturday 09
Some Updates
While we were on our break, memsaab made sure she posted her Bollywood film reviews. Here’s what you missed:
Kunku (1937), Afsana (1966), Smuggler (1966), Neend Hamari Khwab Tumhare (1966), Wardat (1981), Insaniyat (1955), Ram Balram (1980), Raaj Mahal (1982), Ziddi …
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Do Dil (1965)
At last! I have seen a film where I liked Biswajeet! He suits his role here perfectly, and the movie is good fun despite nothing really new story-wise. The music is wonderful, by Hemant Kumar, and it co-stars the lovely Rajshree, the ever-elegant Durga Khote, …
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SeptemberSep 15 Tuesday 09
Not Available On iTunes
The British Library revealed it has made its vast archive of world and traditional music available to everyone, free of charge, on the internet including these from India.
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SeptemberSep 14 Monday 09
Teabaggers’ Delight
The teabaggers’ march last Saturday was infiltrated!
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SeptemberSep 12 Saturday 09
Let The Beat Rock!
Mohammad Boota, a Ramadan drummer in Brooklyn, plays to wake Muslims before their daily fast.
[ via ] [ audio ]
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SeptemberSep 9 Wednesday 09
I Should Have Had A We Eight
Indian policeman Daya Shankar Singh fixes his mustache in Allahabad, India, on Wednesday. He is paid $2 as allowance for his mustache from the office of the Allahabad Police Department’s Deputy Inspector General, according to Singh. [ via ]
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SeptemberSep 7 Monday 09
The Big Picture – Recent Hindu Festivals
Boston.com’s The Big Picture has a feature on recent Hindu festivals. The comments are almost as good as the photos.
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AugustAug 25 Tuesday 09
Hollywood Cracking Down On Bollywood
MUMBAI — For years, Indian producers have paid Hollywood the ultimate compliment: knocking off American films scene-for-scene and turning them into Bollywood blockbusters.
Now, Hollywood is paying Bollywood a compliment of its own. Instead of ignoring the plagiarism, …
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AugustAug 18 Tuesday 09
Sliding Doors
Allegedly a Pakistani engineering student.
This is the interwebs so anything is possible.
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Rural Art In Mumbai
Art lovers in Mumbai can get a glimpse of a rarely seen contemporary art form at two galleries this month: work from rural or tribal areas of the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
In the exhibit “Now That the Trees Have Spoken,” the Pundole Art Gallery (369 …
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AugustAug 10 Monday 09
India’s Bravery Boys
“In a shocking incident, a government elementary school in Villupuram district recently organised an event that exposed school children to serious harm — in the name of celebrations to mark the birth centenary of the former Tamil Nadu chief minister K Kamaraj.” [ …
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AugustAug 5 Wednesday 09
Flashmob in Times Square
Technically not a real flashmob since it was a publicity student for IFC’s upcoming mini series Bollywood Hero.
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JulyJul 26 Sunday 09
Vintage Pulp
A treasure trove of old pulp novels in Malayalam!
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JulyJul 13 Monday 09
A Little Break
The dog days of summer have made us very tired. We’re going to pause for a while.
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Silkscreen Prints.
Here are some posters I just sent out to some *PMH believers!
If you haven’t gotten yours yet you should, order a poster or (3) three!
SRK has his!
Hand silkscreen prints for ONLY ! I only screened a 100 of each.
Here are the details.
Asha // Fast …
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JuneJun 14 Sunday 09
Bakin’ Maharajah
Seen at The Brooklyn Flea in Fort Greene, Brooklyn this weekend.
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Dil Ki Rani (1947)
This story would not even take up one handwritten purse-sized address book page, it is so lacking in substance. How then does it drag on for two hours! It was interesting for about the first half hour only because it stars a very young Raj Kapoor (he’s 23) and an …
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