The legend of the samosa

Published in September 13th, 2009

Vir Sanghvi has written this scrumptious piece on the origin of the ubiquitous samosa. And he says it is not originally Indian. Check this one out!

Face-bhook or twitter

Published in September 10th, 2009

Posted by Anshu in Our life and times, Web stuff

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Either way, it is Amul which has the last say! Amul

Buffalaxed!

Published in September 9th, 2009

Posted by Anshu in Film, Music, Waxing lyrical, Web stuff

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Buffalaxing is a concept where a song in a non English language is given subtitles based on what the foreign words SOUND like, not what it means. This word comes from a genius on YouTube whose username is Buffalax. He (or she) created the concept of Buffalaxing and is REALLY good at it. Watch this [...]

Tick tick tick tick!

Published in September 9th, 2009

Posted by Anshu in Film, Music, Web stuff

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Enjoy this ‘English song’ from the Kannada film Operation Diamond Rocket. Starring the legendary Rajkumar. No, you don’t need to know Kannada to understand the lyrics here, you need to understand Kinglish! Dorrrrling! English songs in Indian films

Anshu’s Amitabh Bachchan Trivia Quiz 2

Published in September 3rd, 2009

Posted by Anshu in Music, Quizzes

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Time for an Amitabh Bachchan Trivia Quiz again! My favourite topic! Have the following singers ever provided playback for Amitabh Bachchan? If so, name the movies. 1. Bappi Lahiri 2. RD Burman 3. Laxmikant 4. Hariharan 5. Sukhwinder Singh 6. Which song sung by AB has been indirectly inspired by Meher Baba? 7. This music [...]

Talent which caught our attention

Published in August 27th, 2009

Posted by Anshu in India, Television

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In the recently concluded television show, the deserving troupe of brick kiln labourers from Behrampur, Orissa, the Prince group touched our hearts. I had posted one of their acts earlier. Here are the other two. The other act which caught my eye was Sneha and Richard’s amazing salsa. And this with a recently operated leg. [...]

Who says prayers are not answered

Published in August 27th, 2009

Posted by Anshu in Film, India, Our life and times, Web stuff

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This came to me by email:

The tissue is the issue

Published in August 20th, 2009

Posted by Anshu in Our life and times

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Cuba has run out of toilet paper. Yes, the isolated island nation, which has survived economic sanctions for nearly 50 years, has finally been laid low by a key shortage of lavatory paper. State-run company Cimex, which manufactures lavatory paper, has warned that the global economic meltdown as well as a series of devastating hurricanes [...]

Sample Shekhar Suman as Sidhu

Published in August 2nd, 2009

Posted by Anshu in India, Television

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There’s this show on SAB TV called Tedhi Baat with Shekhar Suman (Monday to Thursday 10.30 pm). It is a rip off on Prabhu Chawla’s Seedhi Baat. The adorable sardar Gurpal Singh plays the interviewer, and Shekhar Suman dons different avatars. I caught the episode where Shekhar mimicked Navjot Singh Sidhu. Hilarious mind blowing stuff– [...]

Salsa!

Published in July 29th, 2009

Posted by Anshu in Television

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Caught this amazing performance on AXN last night where Janette floored me with her salsa on ‘So you think you can dance’. Phew! I haven’t stopped raving at the way she let’s herself fall!

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