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Equal opportunity porn
The other day I watched, for educational purposes only, Skins on MTV. This is the show that’s been under a lot of controversy for basically being underage porn. It takes place in a high school and the kids portray “normal kids problems”. In the episode I saw, some blonde teacher (who from what I could [...]
Posted by Shubha on March 17, 2011
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Google autofill in India
Excessively bored I decided to try more google autofills from different country’s google sites. In India I typed “Why do Indians…” but that wasn’t exciting, although it was confusing. Apparently Indians want to know why they celebrate Divali, and stare a lot. But I loved the autocorrect for “Why do Americans…”
Posted by Shubha on March 15, 2011
http://shubhabala.com/archives/1047
Stupid kinky multiculturalism.
Gopal Krishna, apparently the Vice-President of the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition, when introducing the potential 2012 Republican Presidential candidates. … I’m mostly insulted by his awful hair. It makes us all look bad.
Posted by Shubha on March 14, 2011
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How to make Chai
In honor of President’s Day, I decided to explain how to make chai, since a few people have recently asked me. First chai is Hindi for tea (in case you didn’t know..). I was at a tea tasting recently where I learned that chai‘s etymology is Chinese. Basically all languages either call tea some variation [...]
Posted by Shubha on February 21, 2011
http://shubhabala.com/archives/1013
Diversity in news
I’ve been recently occupying a lot of my brain thinking about diversity in the news – what is it’s purpose and goal, and how do you achieve it? (I’m specifically referring to ethnic diversity) I, of course, think about ethnic diversity all the time. Diversity in London, in Toronto, New York, and now, excitedly, Minnesota. [...]
Posted by Shubha on February 7, 2011
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Upperclasswoman
My non Mac open-Office proposed spelling corrections for my last name, “Balasubramanyam”: #1 – Anagramatically #2 – Antisubmarine #3 – Upperclasswoman
Posted by Shubha on February 5, 2011
http://shubhabala.com/archives/982
In India, right?
My latest Minnesotan Indianism… I was really excited to happen across a band the other day with a tabla player! Since there are so few tabla players here (I assume), I waited till the set ended so I could go over and introduce myself and find out if there’s a tabla community. He was a [...]
Posted by Shubha on January 22, 2011
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Quantity or Quality of Indians?
My friends Unny, Mahi, and I make up three of the four Indian amigos (if I could say ‘friends’ in Tamil I would put it here). The fourth is Kedar who left us for his MBA…talk about Indian. When we get together we occasionally talk about non-Indian things, like veganism or winter biking, but often [...]
Posted by Shubha on January 14, 2011
http://shubhabala.com/archives/964
Why are Hindus so laisse-faire about Christmas?
An e-mail from a friend (that I’ll reply to soon) reminded me that this blog is partly for discussing Hinduism. I want to pose this discussion Unny and I have been having to all of you. For work, I wrote a short blogpost about how so many Hindu families celebrate a traditional Christmas (without church), [...]
Posted by Shubha on January 8, 2011
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