Update: Kavya Shivashankar is Spelling Bee 2009 Champion Folks, two rounds of the Spelling Bee 2009 are already over. And so far, our desi kids have covered themselves with glory. As we type this post, Round Three is going on in Washington DC . There are at least 31 Desi students among the 293 contestants who […]
Tamil babe Padma Lakshmi, yeah, she of the Hardee’s Western Bacon Thickburger ad fame, is making news these days for posing in her God-given attire for Allure magazine. For all you lecherous, ogling, drooling types, here’s our Tamil ‘ponnu’ Padma Lakshmi wearing nothing but a sultry expression. Just in case you didn’t know, Padma Lakshmi […]
Good times are a coming, folks. Yes, good times are on the horizon. Media reports increasingly suggest that the days of Desi Butcher a.k.a. Vikram Pandit, the CEO of Citigroup, are numbered. Here are some of the headlines for the greedy Desi Butcher, who massacred tens of thousands of jobs at Citigroup while drawing an […]
IIT Kharagpur alumni and quality guru Subir Chowdhury has won the ‘Outstanding American by Choice‘ award handed out by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service to recognize the outstanding achievements of naturalized U.S. citizens. Here’s what the 42-year-old Subir said on hearing the news of the award: Whatever I have dreamed, America has always […]
Desi butcher and Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit has joined the disgraceful gallery of America’s Worst CEOs. Describing Vikram Pandit as one of the 20 Worst CEOs, here’s what Conde Nast’s Portfolio had to say on our ‘desi butcher’: Pandit didn’t create the mess Citi is in, but he is the financial-services equivalent of the Titanic’s […]