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Jamal
and Roy nominated for top award
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The
announcements were made in New York by the National
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS),
and the awards will be presented at a black tie
ceremony to be held on Monday, September 24 which
will be attended by more than 1000 television
and new media industry executives, news and documentary
producers and journalists.
THE
JOURNALIST AND THE JIHADI: THE MURDER OF DANIEL
PEARL is a 79 minute documentary screened on HBO
which tracks the comparable lives of the passionate
journalist and British-born jihadi Omar Sheikh,
a shrewd terrorist who set Pearl up for slaughter.
Through archival footage, interviews with Pearl's
wife, Marianne and his family and friends and
insights from acquaintances of both men, the film
follows the parallel course of their lives: from
their early years in California and London, to
the defining event that led to radically divergent
career paths and their final, fatal encounter
in Pakistan in 2002 that ended in Pearl's horrific
murder.
Jamal
and Roy had wanted to make a film about why Omar
Sheikh, an educated Briton, had become a jihadi,
and his tactic of kidnapping westerners, first
in 1994, and again in 1999, when he was freed
in exchange of lives of hostages following the
hijacking of Indian Airlines Flight IC814. Meanwhile,
in Delhi in 2002, independent producer, Ramesh
Sharma, was also interested in the same subject
and the two parties decided to work together.
THE
JOURNALIST AND THE JIHADI: THE MURDER OF DANIEL
PEARL, had its World Premiere at Tribeca Film
Festival, in April 2006 and was shown on HBO Channel
on 10 October 06.
This
is the second collaboration between Jamal and
Roy, who earlier worked together on Dead Man Talking,
a factual documentary made for Channel 4 following
a murder investigation by Hampshire police conducted
over three years. The documentary was “pick
of the week” in all the national papers &
Short listed for BBC Asia Awards, “Achievement
in Media” November 1999.
''The
Namesake" - Loved the book, loved the movie!
Must see.
By Humeira(Humeira)
And, again, there's nothing to distinguish
their son from thousands of other ABCDs -- American-born
Confused Desis. Except, perhaps, his name: Gogol.
Bestowed in a pinch at the hospital, the name
is a stopgap label that becomes an ...
Desi
weddings find mainstream focus at NJWedding.com
IndiaPost.com - Union City,CA,USA
NEW JERSEY: Erik and Bent Kent, owners of NJWedding.com,
the immensely popular mainstream wedding planning
website, has launched a specific South Asian
...
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Ban cricket, urges JD(S) leader
Newindpress (subscription)
- Chennai,India
MYSORE: JD(S) Farmers’ Unit leader Mallesh
has urged that the Central government should
impose ban on cricket as it is ‘killing
the desi sports’. ...
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Tarun Shetty - An Ace Entertainer
Mangalorean.com - Mangalore,India
At present he is producer and host of the
segment 'Generation Desi,'
and travels across California in the course
of his work. In addition, he continues to
...
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Online
petition to revive MTV Desi
Andhra Cafe - Hyderabad,Andhra
Pradesh,India
New York, March 26 (IANS) A group of prominent
South Asians in the US is lobbying hard to
bring MTV Desi back after it was pulled
out from the network's ...
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Famous
Professional Crime Fighters on Indian Television
Desicritics.org - Bangalore,Karnataka,India
Lekin Woh Sach Tha was not exactly a detective
show, but more of a desi version of
X-Files. This was the show which introduced
us to such paranormal topics ...
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Rathore's
desi collection wins over audience
RxPG NEWS - Westchester,CA,USA
By IANS, [RxPG] New Delhi, March 25 - He is
known for his stylish, sophisticated and contemporary
designs, which are in perfect sync with the
contemporary ...
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Ellison
Talks Up US in Muslim Circles
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA
Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected
to Congress, to help burnish the country's
image in the Muslim world _ despite Ellison's
outspoken criticism of the ...
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Breaking
News:Muslim High School Principal Fired-Police
Trails ...
Blogger News Network - USA
Mid last month, the pupils of Muslim
Senior Secondary School went on strike to demand
payment of their teachers salaries and other
benefits. ...
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From
NYU to Harvard, Karan is Bollywood’s
brand ambassador!
By Sameer
From NYU to Harvard, Karan is Bollywood’s
brand ambassador Subhash K. Jha, IANS Karan
Johar is taking his newly discovered role as
Bollywood’s academic ambassador very
seriously. The director was last week invited
to lecture 500 ...
Naachgaana.com 2.0 estyle - http://www.naachgaana.com
Sikhs
work through delays in temple rebuilding
amNewYork - New York,USA
When Gurmail Singh got an early morning call
from his uncle five years ago today telling
him the Sikh Cultural Society temple
in Richmond Hill was on fire, ...
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Fighting
prejudice
Times Now.tv - Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
On the five year anniversary of 9/11, five Sikhs
were chosen and actively helped by Grassroots
Initiative and the Sikh Coalition, to
run for office, ...
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Holy
showdown
Vancouver Province (subscription)
- Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
Followers of Harnek Singh Grewal, a Sikh
holy man who controls a $100-million global
religious empire from Edmonton, do not want
him sent back to face an ...
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Hindu
prayers at Nevada University
IndiaEduNews.net - New Delhi,India
New York: Readings and prayers from Hindu
scriptures will be part of the second annual
Interfaith Baccalaureate service of the University
of Nevada in May. ...
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Hindu
student faces religious trials solo
ASU The Appalachian Online
- Boone,NC,USA
Lavani was born in the United States, but her
parents grew up in India and were matched by
an arranged marriage, a popular Hindu
tradition. ...
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Colorful
Hindu festival draws crowd
San Jose Mercury News -
San Jose,CA,USA
The bland industrial neighborhood east of Highway
101 in Sunnyvale was brightened Saturday as
more than 200 Indo-Americans celebrated Holi,
the Hindu spring ...
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Masala
Bhangra
By sparwani
Sarina1 This video is of a news spot filed by
a New York TV station featuring Masala Bhangra.
Taught by Sarina Jain, Masala Bhangra
is an aerobics workout in bhangra style.
Sarina teaches Masala Bhangra in New
York City but you can get ...
Desi Videos - http://desivideos.ratedesiblogs.com
ISA
holds first Bhangra Night in many years
LSU The Reveille - Baton
Rouge,LA,USA
"Bhangra is a lot like Indian hip-hop,"
Shah said. "It's a dance that makes
people go crazy and want to get up on their
feet and jump around." ...
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Mira
Nair opens Cinequest with 'The Namesake,'
a story of Indian ...
Silicon Valley's Metro
- San Jose,CA,USA
Nair's ambitious The Namesake is her adaptation
of the National Book Award-winning novel by
Jhumpa Lahiri, telling of the journey of an
Indian-American ...
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South
Asian accent a hurdle
in US
Times of
India - New Delhi,India
Increasingly, Indian and other
South Asian migrants
in the US are taking the help
of professional speech trainers
to improve their accent. ...
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Indian
music and film gathers followings
in Seattle, other cities
Seattle
Post Intelligencer - Seattle,WA,USA
Bollywood films -- Indian
Hindi-language commercial films
that derive their industry name
from the fusion of the words
Hollywood and Bombay -- have
become ...
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Indian
music and film gathers followings
in Seattle, other cities
kgw.com
(subscription) - Portland,OR,USA
A line of sleek 20- and 30-somethings
snakes around the outside of
the night club, but bright colors
from traditional Indian
clothes break up the usual ...
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BUG
- The Brotherhood of Unwelcome
Guests
Desicritics.org
- Bangalore,Karnataka,India
Suffice it to say that those
involved was a desi family
well known to us. Giving away
much more would not be in the
interest of my domestic harmony.
...
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Pakistani
charged with illegal donations
United Press
International - USA
WASHINGTON, March 3 (UPI) --
A Pakistani businessman
living in California has become
a fugitive to avoid prosecution
for illegal contributions to
prominent ...
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US
DESI RELATED HEADLINES - FEBRUARY
2007
Two
American states impose curbs
on Pakistani bank
Malaysia
Sun - Malaysia
Karachi, Feb.28 : Two unnamed
American states have reportedly
imposed restrictions on a Pakistani
bank, also unnamed, over fears
of terror-related financing
...
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Hot
dudes Yahaan!
Hindustan
Times - New Delhi,Delhi,India
The tranquil beauty of Yahaan
fame Minissha Lamba who turned
sensuous in Honeymoon Travels
Pvt Ltd. rates our desi
dudes on her style-o-metre.
...
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United
Colours of Holi
Times of
India - New Delhi,India
If you thought Holi was a strictly
desi phenomenon - think
again. There are foreigners
who come here exclusively to
play Holi and there are others
who carry ...
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Desi
docs bitten by phoren bug
Economic
Times - India
It isn’t only reel-life hero
Munnabhai MBBS who had to go
to Hollywood for his MD. In
a sixties phenomenon that is
making a comeback, Indian doctors
are ...
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I
love Shah Rukh: Penelope Cruz
By bollywooddreamz
Oscar nominated Spanish actress
Penelope Cruz is very keen on
Indian movies and says she would
love to work opposite Bollywood
superstar Shah Rukh Khan. Cruz,
who has been nominated for an
Oscar in the best actress category
for her role ...
Bollywood Dreamz - http://bollywooddreamz.wordpress.com
Mayor
Newsom's Stalker Has Bollywood
Connection
By DW Alliance
LLC http://www.dwalliance.com
The Korean-American man accused
of stalking San Francisco Mayor
Gavin Newsom claims to be the
true life partner of Bollywood
star Aishwariya Rai reports
India West.
news.newamericamedia.org - http://news.newamericamedia.org
FREE Bollywood Dance
and Aerobics Workshop
By nobody@evdb.com
(evdb)
Free Workshops in Southern California
- Feb 25 2007 Due to space considerations,
please limit your registration
to one location only Bay area?s
largest Bollywood dance
company is now launching its
classes in Southern California.
...
Eventful results in "Los Angeles,... - http://eventful.com
Diaspora
designs on a shrinking world
Financial
Express - Bombay,India
Bollywood has a false
sense of success because its
blockbusters routinely break
into US and UK charts. But is
that all there is to the game?
...
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Pakistani
loses appeal of fistfight
Denver Post
- Denver,CO,USA
Washington - The Supreme Court
today refused to consider the
case of a Pakistani man
living in Colorado who is facing
deportation because of a fist
fight. ...
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Indian
Americans hold key positions
in US universities
Indian Muslims
- San Diego,CA,USA
New York, Feb 20 (IANS) Over
8000 Indian professors
are enriching university campuses
all across the United States
with many holding top positions
in their ...
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Indians
in US find new sideline: Bollywood
moguls
Daily Review
Online - CA,USA
Now, at 38 years old, she has
an unusual new occupation: She
is one of a wave of Indians
in America pouring money into
Bollywood movies here
in India's film ...
NY
could get first Pakistani
as city council member
The News
- International - Pakistan
NEW YORK: The City Council could
make history on Tuesday by gaining
its first Pakistani or
Haitian member. But a former
UN ambassador for St Vincent
and the ...
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USDA
agrees to import Pakistani
mango
FreshPlaza
- Netherlands
Bajwa said that government of
Pakistan has succeeded in convincing
USA to allow export of Pakistani
mango to USA. He said PHDEB
is establishing two ...
Bollywood
rubs shoulders with Hollywood
on mobile screens
Hindu -
Chennai,India
This was more than evident at
the recently concluded 3GSM
Congress in Barcelona, where
Bollywood showcased its
potential to deliver films on
mobile phones. ...
US
and Pakistani Scholars
Renew Collaboration
Washington
File - Washington,DC,USA
Washington – US scholars visiting
Pakistan report a surge of interest
by academics and the Pakistani
government in nurturing research
at universities and ...
Satrang
draws crowd to witness Indian
music, dance
MSU State
News - East Lansing,MI,USA
Performing a multitude of dances
to a combination of music, 25
members of the MSU Bhangra
team and the MSU Raas team took
the stage in the program's
opener. ...
Indian
Actress in American Lesbian
Film - Post Bollywood
Controversy!
Yahoo! News
(press release) - USA
Bollywood actress Perizaad
Zorabian made international
headlines when she turned down
the role due to her "own
personal inhibitions about playing
a lesbian ...
The
Namesake - a flag of desi creative
power
nowRunning.com
- India
Several other Desis also have
a role to play in the film based on
the best-selling novel of the same
name by Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Jhumpa Lahiri. ...
MTV
shuts down Asian channels
Hyphen Magazine
- San Francisco,CA,USA
MTV should get credit for making the
effort and trying the niche in creating
MTV Chi (for Chinese Americans, MTV
Desi (for South Asians) and
MTV K (for ...
RSS
bid to make US-born Indians ‘confident’
Hindustan Times
- New Delhi,Delhi,India
This confusion led to the ‘American
Born Confused Desi’ tag for
an NRI. Now RSS is trying to change
it into ‘American Born Confident
Desi’, Kumar pointed ...
Yet another desi film to hit
US theatres
Hindustan Times
- New Delhi,Delhi,India
Another desi film "Indian
Cowboy" is to hit theatres in the
US later this month, close on the heels
of two such successful earlier releases
- "American ...
Growing
Up ABCD
East West Magazine
- Scottsdale,AZ,USA
These were just some of the minor differences
between me—the ABCD (American Born
Confused Desi)—and my “American”
American friends. ...
The right accent
Economic Times
- India
And even the Oxford English Dictionary
now includes words like “bindaas”,
“ tamasha”, “kitty party”
and “desi”, under a new
collection of linguistic ...
Serving
lonely hearts
Times of India
- New Delhi,India
Some gigolos have revealed that at
least 20 of them are operating individually
and there is also a group called 'Desi
Club' with 10 members, ...
LETTER
FROM LONDON: Embarrassment of dishes
—Irfan Husain
Daily Times -
Lahore,Pakistan
But few people today know that when
he opened Okra some ten years ago,
Ayaz used to serve excellent desi
fare. So when Ijaz came to Karachi,
I asked Ayaz to ...
Malls
in, small shops out
Afternoon Dispatch
& Courier - Bombay,India
Desi malls are attracting huge
crowds. Small shops are closing down.
And desi malls will face formidable
competition when FDI in retail trade
is allowed ...
Wah wah vroom Mahindra!
Hindustan Times
- New Delhi,Delhi,India
In the words of a local gas-station
owner, "there is no dearth
of money or nationalism amongst
us desis- I am surely going
to see a lot of Scorpios (the ...
Desis
love dough, foreigners dope
Daily News &
Analysis - Mumbai,India
MUMBAI: Indians travelling abroad
mostly prefer to smuggle foreign
currency, while foreign nationals
leaving the Indian shores prefer
to smuggle out drugs, ...
Dawn raid drags Pakistani family
from home
Workers World
- USA
DRUM (Desis Rising Up &
Moving), a community-based social
justice organization of working-class
and poor South Asian immigrants
in New York City, ...
Three
Desis in Scientific American
50
IndiaPost.com
- Union City,CA,USA
NEW YORK: Three South Asian names
are among the "2006 Scientific
American 50", the leading scientists
and science influencers in the US,
chosen by editors ...
All
ready to mingle
Calcutta Telegraph
- Calcutta,India
In the US, where Americanised desis
balk at the idea of their families
arranging their marriage to a stranger,
these purportedly more independent-minded
...
The
Other Side of Dubai: Where Desis
Die for a Living
INDOlink - San
Ramon,CA,USA
These are the desis whose
Dubai dreams are turning into nightmares.
Francis C. Assisi monitors human
rights abuses affecting Indians
overseas. ...
Desis
at Greater Risk for Heart Attack,
even after immigrating
INDOlink - San
Ramon,CA,USA
South Asians or Desis have
heart attacks at a younger age compared
to other ethnic groups because of
higher risk factors for cardiovascular
disease - and ...
Pakistani
family in US alleges intimidation
Pakistan Dawn
- Karachi,Pakistan
The Desis Rising Up &
Moving (DRUM), a civil rights group,
held a demonstration in support
of the family. After hearing the
judge’s decision, ...
Five
Desis Enter Elite Science
Competition Finals
INDOlink - San
Ramon,CA,USA
Four Indian-Americans and one Pakistani-American
are among the 40 finalists selected
January 31st in the ongoing Intel
Science Talent Search competition
...
Beautiful
article on Desis away from
our motherland...
Most of us left the Indian shores
to come here. We have bid our farewells
with teary eyes to our mothers.
We hugged our fathers and left without
turning back. We silently took leave
from that girl next door peeping
from behind the ...
Diary of satya singh - http://satyaiitk.rediffiland.com/
today...was a rough one..lol
i still have to get the pictures
from desis last year calander
for her walls. i spent a dollar
to get her a calender last year
that has horses on it, but its got
great pictures in it still. so im
going to take them all out, ...
Ericka's way of Living on
less... - http://Erickasmoneymatters.spaces.live.com/
Cool Meanings
By UD
Cigarette: A pinch of tobacco rolled
in paper with fire at one end &
a fool at the other. Love affairs:
Something like cricket where one-day
internationals are more popular
than a five-day test. Marriage:
...
USDESI bloggers connecting desis - http://usdesi.blogspot.com
Life is good…
By Tushar Thole(Tushar
Thole)
I had asked him to arrange some
sort of gathering and around 20
desis turned up for the potluck.
We had a helluva time from 830pm
to 2am (That is when I left the
party went on even further) watching
‘Darwaza Band Rakho’, ...
TNT for the brain! - http://tntforthebrain.blogspot.com/index.html
Super
Bowl XLI Ads - The Budweiser Collection
By Patrix
This year, one ad even featured
an accent training seminar filled
with desis, Chinese, and
East Europeans. Funny! Especially
the end - Bood-lite indeed.Here
is the entire Budweiser Super Bowl
Ad collection in one video: ...
Nerve Endings Firing Away - http://www.ipatrix.com
The ugly Indian
This myth was particularly strong
before I came to the States, and
continued to occasionally make appearances
after I came to the States, in some
gatherings of desis. Sure,
there remain plenty of Americans
who don?t know that Sri Lanka ...
sports - http://s48.sports-guru.com
Support
groups help South Asian community fight
domestic violence
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
Support groups such as this play a vital role
in the South Asian community by providing
language-specific and culturally sensitive services
to women who ...
Kite
Flying, Pakistani Style Comes to Phoenix
PR Web (press release) -
Ferndale,WA,USA
Pakistan Information and Cultural Organization
(PICO) will have its 5th Annual Basant Mela
(Kite Flying Festival) on Saturday, March 17,
2007 from 11:00 AM ...
Crosswords, Crossing
swords, and Another Brainy Desi Guy
By amardeep
One of the side characters in the recent documentary
Wordplay is a desi crossword puzzle aficionado
named Kiran Kedlaya, who came in second at the
2006 American Crossword Puzzle Tournament (the
Crossword Superbowl, if you will). ...
Sepia Mutiny - http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/
Bollywood
Glitz in a Times Square Debut
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
The red-carpet event was for a movie called
"Guru," and was rare American treatment
for a feature from Bollywood, the Mumbai-based
film industry. ...
Countdown
begins to 9th Bollywood awards in US
Indiantelevision.com - Andheri,Mumbai,India
NEW DELHI: The ninth annual Bollywood Awards
slated to be held in New York in May have got
underway with fans of Indian cinema all over
the world getting an ...
Bollywood
Goes Broadband: BODVOD Co-Founder Vinod Bhat
Eyes South ...
ADOTAS - New York,NY,USA
Despite the fact that Bollywood is arguably
the most productive film industry in the world,
its appeal here in the States is scattered.
...
 On
the night of 27th Sept. 2003, Nabeel Siddiqui,
24, a recent graduate of New Jersey Institute
of Technology (NJIT), was brutally and mercilessly
beaten with a baseball bat by three individuals,
in the township of Orange, NJ. This attack had
left him fighting for his life due to severe
brain damage. He was in an extremely critical
condition at UMDNJ’s Surgical Intensive
Care Unit. Unfortunately, Nabeel Siddiqui passed
away at 4:46pm on Oct. 6th, 2003.The Essex County
(NEWARK) Prosecutor's Office yesterday added
felony murder to the charges against three teenagers
held in the Sept. 27 beating of an Orange pizza
deliverer who died Monday from his injuries.
Acting Prosecutor Paula Dow said her office
was filing a motion to have the three juveniles
-- two 16-year-olds from Orange and a 17-year-old
from Woodbridge -- tried as adults in the slaying
of Nabeel Siddiqui.A petition has been created
to enact this, to add your signature to the
petition click the below link:www.petitiononline.com/nabeels/petitionSiddiqui,
a 24-year-old Pakistani immigrant who graduated
from NJIT in May, was beaten with a baseball
bat after the teens allegedly lured him to a
quiet Orange street with a bogus pizza order.
He died Monday in University Hospital in Newark.
The teenagers, who are being held in the Essex
County Juvenile Detention Centre, originally
were charged with aggravated assault, robbery,
weapons possession and carjacking. Police said
the motive for the beating was the theft of
Siddiqui's 1995 Nissan Altima, according to
sources.Siddiqui's friends and family, including
his mother, who made a 20-hour, $2,500 flight
here from Karachi, Pakistan, on Saturday, remain
devastated over their loss. "We are very
sad," said Asim Khan of Westchester, N.Y.,
Siddiqui's uncle. "His mother is obviously
shattered." Siddiqui, who graduated with
a bachelor of science degree in computer science,
only took the part-time pizza delivery job while
he searched for a permanent job here in his
chosen career field, so he could earn enough
to help his financially strapped parents and
bring them to America to live with him, Nabeel's
funeral arrangements are pending his family
finding an airline to transport the body back
to Karachi today, Khan said.
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