If you love music, our friends in Germany, Genetic Drugs have put together a nice little radio show of globetronic and tablatronic sounds. Here is the link. Notable tracks include Sitar Flavor / Nihil Nirvana; Stiff Jazz / dZihan + Kamien and Trdnapax / Nataraj XT
Citibank’s C2It payment service, mostly a way to lure desis to send money is koed by PayPal. Thank god!
You have heard about Paparazzi, but mind you they are nothing when compared to the Indianized version, Pappadazzi
The most serious issue rocking the nation today is Karisma Kapoor’s wedding. Representatives from every newspaper are waiting at RK Studios (in Chembur, Mumbai) trying to get sound bytes from anyone they can. Aaj Tak has gone one step ahead and is covering the private event LIVE. Note that none of these journalists have been invited to the wedding. If you take a look at some of the honest bylines, like in this Rediff report: Vijay Singh is standing outside R K Cottage. That’s how dedicated they are…. [Filter Coffee]
Bombay it seems is under the grip of Flash Mobs. Vala-giri or as time pass has a new tool – the cellphone and text messaging. And to those who want to get a clue, flash mobs are passe in the west and Big Apple officially called the trend over a month ago. Still let the SMS fly.
This is a recap of some of the headlines for the week ending 10.04.2003 on NotReallyIndian.com
Meanwhile, here is short list of five most popular items on NRI….
Word is that Sporty Spice Mel C is recording a song for a Bollywood movie. The ex Spice Girl was approached by Sunil Shetty for his next production ‘Rakth’ according to Internet rumors. Ex-Spicy is getting a test of the real thing it seems!
Apparently Rani “yummier than rasgula” Mukherjee is co-starring with Ben Afflek in director Dev BenegalÄôs next project, a romantic love story set in Mumbai, and California called what else -Bombay California. Such creativity is worthy of an Oscar. He in case Afflek does not work out, Ethan Hawke will be the replacement. So now you get Rani+Afflek=RAfflek
True soldier does not argue as he marches, how success is going to be ultimately achieved. But he is confident that if he only plays his humble part well, somehow or other the battle will be won. It is in that spirit that every one of us should act. It is not given to us to know the future. But it is given to everyone of us to know how to do our own part well. Mahatma Gandhi
Dr. Bob Rajcommar, a former U.S. Army major and a doctor from Florida has won his flying while brown case
While another dude won his case for being brown as well. He got $1.6 million.
