Odds & Ends
Who do you think will win the 2007 World Cricket Cup?
India, Australia and Pakistan, in that order, are favored to win the 2007 World Cricket Cup in Little India's online reader's poll. Here's how the
Chennai Chicken
1. 8 pieces of boneless chicken breast 2. Plain yogurt - 4 cups to marinate the chicken3. Ginger root chopped fine - 2 inches4. Garlic, 6 cloves, chopped5. Mint leaves
Pairing Dosas And Wine In San Francisco
What would you drink with your dosa and sambar? How about Peñalolen Sauvignon Blanc '05 Limarí Valley, Chile or Serra Da Estrela Albariño '05 Rias
Marriage Goes To The Dogs
Sorry folks. These nine marriages have been called off. It's not that the couples developed cold feet. But in the wake of criticism from animal
Bill Zhou
Almost half of all Americans believe the next Bill Gates will come from China or Japan. An Internet Attitudes poll by Zogby and 463 Communications
Here Come The Cinema Angels!
If you're an unknown, emerging film-maker you might find it very hard to get a Hollywood producer like Deepak Nayar of Bend It Like Beckham
Vikram Chandra's Sacred Games
It's been seven years in the making and reportedly bagged a seven figure advance after a heated bidding war on three continents. A $300,000 marketing
Recipes
Balti Paneer Sit-Fried Homemade Cheese(Serves 6) 1 tablespoon soriander seeds2 tablespoons cumin seeds1/2 teaspoon whole peppercorns1/2 tablespoon fenugreek seeds2 tablespoon vegetable oil1 tablespoon unsalted butter2 onions, minced2
Win One for the Ripper
Arnold Schwarzenegger's language of subtitles is the language of revolution of the immigrants.
Measuring Up
Sorry folks, we don't know how quite to tell you this, but a two-year study by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has conclusively
A Touch Of India With Daniel Boulud
He was named America's Outstanding Restaurateur and Best Chef in 2006 by the prestigious James Beard Foundation. In fact, Daniel Boulud is a name gourmands
Man Of The Year
Shekar Ramanuja Sidarth, the University of Virginia senior, who shot to public fame after Republican Sen, George Allen ridiculed him as macaca at a campaign
Nuclear Warmth
Perhaps it took India going nuclear, but Americans seem to be warming up to India. The "Global Thermometer" index by Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, measuring the
Most Difficult Gift
A recent survey found that most Americans found it most difficult to identify an appropriate gift for Dad. Well for Indians, the greatest difficulty is
The Tree Hugger Of Kansas
Simran Sethi may not need to actually go and hug trees to save them from being chopped, but she's doing all that she can to
Can't Cheat On That Check
In what is sure to send shivers down the spine of every college smoocher, three computer science graduate students at Carnegie Mellon University have figured
Vegetarians Are Smarter
This has got to stop. First they said it was the curry, now it's the vegetables that allegedly make you smarter. A study of 8,000 people
The Pizza Twins
Twins have double the fun and surely double the energy - so no wonder Miki and Radha Agrawal, 27, are involved in a dizzying array
Kabbadi Cops!
Who would have expected kabaddi, the 4,000-year-old indigenous sport of India, to be taken up by Canadians - huge, powerfully built, mostly white cops no
Mumbai Favorite Indian Metro
Mumbai edged out New Delhi as the favorite Indian metro among overseas Indians. Bangalore trailed in third place, followed by Ahmedabad. Which of the following metros
Don Makes A Killing
There's money in them remakes! Don, which stars Shah Rukh Khan, harks back to the cult favorite of the same name starring Amitabh Bachchan, and
Marx Man
A Marxist Californian may be the first foreigner to win a student election in India. Tyler Walker Williams, a Berkeley native and a student for the
The Tax Collector Is A Eunuch
Frustrated city officials in Patna have struck upon a novel scheme to shake down tax deadbeats by recruiting scores of eunuchs to collect on the
Curry Makes You Smarter
Ever wonder what makes Indians so damn smart? According to a study in the American Journal of Epidemology, Singapore researchers might have struck upon the
Indian Millionaires Row
The road to UK's Indian super-rich runs through Aston Road in Northwood, a west London suburb. The London Times reports that Indian millionaires are snapping up
Meet The Papdits
CBS's broadband network Innertube has begun streaming The Papdits, a wacky 20-minute comedy originally created, but later nixed, by Fox in 2004. The Papdits follows
Mind Your Language
Are you a badmash, inclined to airdash? Are you guilty of timepass during working hours? If you speak Hinglish you know that of which we speak.
Pocket Sari
A Chennai store has introduced what it is boasting is the world's first sari with a pocket, which can hold your mobile phone, keys and
Imagine No Google
Indians are behind almost a quarter of all immigrant start-ups in America. A study, American Made: The Impact of Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Professionals on US Competitiveness
Technology To The Rescue
Two Rochester Institute of Technology scientists are using high tech imaging technologies used to digitize the Dead Sea Scrolls to create digital copies of a
When The Kapoors Were King
Who would have known that Indira Gandhi once toyed with a possible marital alliance between her son Rajiv and Ritu, the daughter of Raj Kapoor?
Waxing People
Spoony Singh works on a wax figure of Marilyn Monroe in his Hollywood Wax Museum in Los Angeles in this April 19, 1966 file photo.
Desis Don't See Red
If you have done a double flip at Gap's campaign featuring Penelope Cruz with the word Desi(Red) emblazoned on her, you are mistaken in your
Sholay!
Amitabh Bachchan is trading places with his nemesis, the bloodthirsty Gabbar Singh in a remake of Sholay, India's greatest movie classic. Amitabh Bachchan poses in front
Spicing Up America!
Fusion was a word not unknown to Floyd Cardoz, the celebrity chef of Tabla, when he was growing up in Bombay in a Goan family
Most Corrupt B2B
Indian businesses are rated as the most corrupt in the world for bribery, according to a new report by Transparency International, an advocacy group against
Treading Two Worlds
The literary world is abuzz over Kiran Desai, 35, bagging the prestigious Man Booker prize for her second novel, The Inheritance of Loss, becoming the
