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 […]
“India in a Day” – a crowdsourced film by Google
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 […]
Review: I watched the Outsourced tv series – and loved it
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 […]
I like Barbie Kali
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 […]
6 Things All Immigrant Kids Experience by AJ+
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), […]
Amitabh Bachchan – the comic book superhero?!
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 […]
Meet the Patels?!
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 […]
Snakes and Ladders was not just a game…
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 […]
