Things that go fatwa in the knight

(Caricature by Riber Hansson) In search of more information on Salman Rushdie’s knighthood and the angry sputtering from Iran and Pakistan, I made a rather interesting discovery. Did you know Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II records Royal podcasts? They are infrequent but available. Her last was on Commonwealth Day, which falls on March 12. [...]

The senator from Illinois vs. the senator from Punjab

(Photo credit: Associated Press/Ron Edmonds) Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is facing an onslaught of criticism from the Indian-American community after it released a memo Friday tying Hillary Clinton’s stance on outsourcing to her and her husband’s financial dealings with businesses in India. The memo, released on the condition that it not be attributed to the [...]

More on the globalization of Father’s Day

Just received this from Columbia University’s Sree Sreenivasan in an emailed update from SAJAForum, a daily news blog by the South Asian Journalists Association: “It’s Father’s Day in the U.S., but I am in India right now, where it’s not as big a deal. In fact, I didn’t even realize it’s celebrated at all. But, [...]

The Google of job sites

Forgive my gushing, but I just came across Indeed.com and it is the coolest and simplest job search site. Ever. It is the Costco of job sites, everything from your tomatoes to your tires under one roof. It is the Google of job sites. It is the stop-checking-a-dozen-job-sites-a-day-dear-put-your-feet-up-and have-some-tea of job sites. It looks like [...]