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The Indian Experience in America

Aziz Ansari Goes to India

March 3, 2016 by Arp Laszlo 2 Comments

Aziz Ansari in India

I just finished watching Parks & Recreation last week (boo hoo :() and developed a much greater appreciation for Aziz Ansari over the last few months. The guy is effortlessly funny and entertaining as hell. He just wrote a short article in the New York Times about going back to India for a family wedding that’s worth a […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: Aziz Ansari, Aziz Ansari Goes to India, Aziz Ansari in India, New York Times, Parks & Recreation, Tom Haverford, Trivandrum

“India in a Day” – a crowdsourced film by Google

February 9, 2016 by Arp Laszlo 2 Comments

I came across this recently and it’s a really cool idea. A crowdsourced, user-generated film all on one day – October 15, 2015: India in a Day is a user-generated film all about India, shot in a single day, by you. On Saturday 10th October 2015, you will have 24 hours to capture your story […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: Anurag Kashyap, crowdsourcing, first look, Google, India, India in a Day, mobile video, Richie Mehta, Ridley Scott, rural internet

Review: I watched the Outsourced tv series – and loved it

December 1, 2015 by Arp Laszlo 2 Comments

We got a trial of Hulu a month ago and while seeing what they offered, I noticed Outsourced. It rang a bell; I have a faint memory of seeing the 2006 movie that inspired it but had no idea there was a tv show (we haven’t had cable for at least 10 years). It was […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: arranged marriage, call center, comedy, entitlement, Geetika Tandon Lizardi, globalization, head wobble, India, Indian, Indian-American, Mumbai, Outsourced, Outsourced (tv series), outsourcing, racism, The Office, tv, white privilege

I like Barbie Kali

October 26, 2015 by Arp Laszlo 2 Comments

Naturally, there are plenty of Indians offended by this art but I’m not one of them. My only quibble is the blond hair, which just doesn’t work with the blue skin. I’m curious how many other Indian-Americans out there just thought that our gods & goddesses were kooler than Jesus (see what I did there […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: Amar Chitra Katha, Catholicism, Christianity, deities, Durga, Ganesh, goddesses, gods, Hanuman, Hanuman to the Rescue, Hindu, Hinduism, Jesus Christ, Kail, Kali, Kooler than Jesus, Lakshmi, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Shiva, superheroes, vajra, Virgin Mary

6 Things All Immigrant Kids Experience by AJ+

October 19, 2015 by Arp Laszlo Leave a Comment

Yep – I related to most of these, particularly the name thing. My parents chose a name (“Arpan”) that wasn’t spelled anything like the pronunciation (Or-pone) – and it’s pronounced differently depending where in India you are. And while I didn’t have school lunch issues (my mom usually made bad Western sandwiches I didn’t eat), […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: AJ+, AJPlus, Al Jazeera, Arpan, camping, immigrant, immigration, mispronunciation, names

Amitabh Bachchan – the comic book superhero?!

October 13, 2015 by Arp Laszlo Leave a Comment

Apparently, my childhood is incomplete because I completely missed a comic book starring Amitabh Bachchan. This man was my idol back when I watched Indian movies – and I only watched his movies, for the most part. I figure that I missed it because it sold out and TV was very limited there in the […]

Filed Under: Culture, News Tagged With: Amar Akbar Anthony, Amar Chitra Katha, Amitabh Bachchan, Bollywood, Deewar, Don, Gabbar Singh, India, Lalo Schifrin, movies, Seinfeld, Sholay

Meet the Patels?!

September 11, 2015 by Arp Laszlo Leave a Comment

How did I not know about this – an actual movie about Indian-Americans in the theatre?! This is total date night material. In other news, yes – I’ve been awol. Work has kept me busy and now I realize why comic creators have buffers – a completed number of comics that keep things from stopping in […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: buffer, documentary, Indian, Indian-American, Meet the Patels, movie

Snakes and Ladders was not just a game…

June 11, 2015 by Arp Laszlo Leave a Comment

Anyone who’s spent time in India with family has surely played Snakes & Ladders (and not the wussified Western Chutes & Ladders). It’s a simple game of chance where you roll a die, move the number of spaces defined by the roll and – if you land on square at the bottom of a ladder or a […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: board games, cuture, family games board games, games board games, giant snakes ladders, karma, morality, play snakes and ladders, play snakes ladders, religion, snakes and ladders board game, snakes and ladders game, snakes ladders games, snakes ladders instructions

Love this Aziz Ansari bit on thanking our parents

June 4, 2015 by Arp Laszlo Leave a Comment

I discovered Aziz Ansari only in the last couple of years. Yes, I’ve been living under a rock – also known as I don’t have cable. He’s funny as shit and like all great comedy there’s truth behind it. I certainly have it easier than my parents did (though I did move to Costa Rica for […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: Aziz Ansari, parents, progress, third culture kids

Sikh Captain America rocks!

June 1, 2015 by Arp Laszlo Leave a Comment

So does Hari Kondabolu. I’m going to keep posting this stuff for days…

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: Asian Thor, Black Black Widow, Black Widow, Brown Jesus Christ, Captain America, Gay Hulk, Hari Kondabolu, Hulk, Jesus Christ, race, Sikh Captain America, superhero, Thor, Vishavjit Singh

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