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Does anyone else find it ironic that most of the brownies including some of us self-proclaimed un-NRIs are hassled (including full cavity body searches) and then the Bushies appoint a brownie, Amit Yoran, as the “nation’s new cybersecurity chief to lead government efforts to combat online hackers and terrorists.” Amit is by the way a VP at Symantec.

Yoran, vice president for managed security services at Symantec in Cupertino, will also be chief coordinator of the U.S. government’s international efforts to protect global computer networks. [ San Jose Mercury News ]

Wonder what could be the next big smash hit from one of the Asian Underground Acts? Well folks rev-your Real Players for we are giving you five songs to stream for….

• Asian Dub Foundation “1000 MIRRORS” ft Sinead O’Connor Visionary Underground Re-mix (Now out as a single release) Lo-Fi or Hi-Fi
• Nitin Sawhney’s Eastern Eyes from album Human. (This one needs a Windows Media Player.
• Bally Sagoo returns with Hanji and this awesome track – Bottalan Sharab Dian[ MP3 player needed ]
• Navdeep’s Immigrance
• BrownSounds’ Midnight in Utopia

Jennifer Siebel, an ex-girlfriend of George Clooney and star of a forthcoming Jack Nicholson-Diane Keaton film, is hiding out in India. No nothing criminal – except she is producing and starring in a Hinglish movie titled Catching India and is in town to shoot for American Daylights.

American Daylights is currently being shot in Delhi with the site alternating between a call centre and hotel, the Grand, according to The Times of India.

So what about Catching India?

”The movie is about an American girl who, after flying down to India for seven days with $7 in her pocket as part of a reality show, loses her way and finally stays with an Indian family.’While 15 per cent of the film will be shot in LA, the rest will be canned in India. As for me, I’m ready to roll!”

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There was once a time when Lollywood, Pakistan’s movie industry centred at Lahore, rivalled Bollywood, India’s moviemaking powerhouse. That was long ago. [Plastic]

Here we go again on the whole H1-B thing. In case anyone is really interested!

Okay this is getting totally whack! Carrie and her friends are going to India this October – Sex and the City will debut on October 4, 2003 at 11.30 pm – where else but HBO. Wonder what Samantha would do with all those h****y boys in Bombay!!