Comments on: The Desi News Network

By: mira

mira — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 22:44:30 +0000

…and let us not forget the lovely and intelligent Sanjay Gupta!

By: delph

delph — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 16:20:58 +0000

i like aneesh raman. He is so nice and intelligent. I learn english watching him on CNN. So thank you aneesh for being so sweet and for teaching me english. Sorry if there are mistakes in my english. I LOVE CNN! I LOVE ANEESH RAMAN! I LOVE AMERICANS. delphine, a french girl.

By: amit

amit — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:33:09 +0000

India’s first complete showbiz channel, http://www.bollywoodabc.com has been launched, guys keep coming.

By: Loi13

Loi13 — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 03:25:07 +0000

I also like Aneesh Ramen.

By: Zoraster

Zoraster — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 23:26:21 +0000

All these brown folks sort of balance out the unbelievable whiteness of Lou Dobbs.

Nice to see and good for CNN to not limiting their diversity to tokenism.

By: No Desh

No Desh — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 03:45:53 +0000

"drool-worthy Rudabeh Bakhtiar is actually Irani."

Sorry - I spent a lot of time in Iran as a child, and I consider them "desi" as well.

"why not? parminder nagra is awesome on ER"

Well, granted I haven't watched ER this season or last, but in the previous seasons when her character was present, I always got the impression she was a "supporting" cast member, never a real "main" character. Personally, I'd like to see more desis (born here or moved here at an early age, so sans any accent) in the main character roles in medical shows b/c it would actually represent reality (I'm in the med world and see it firsthand...)

By: Squared

Squared — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 19:01:35 +0000

Even if we put the origin aside and assume they all were desis, its hard to think that they will be given better exposure even after CNN’s beloved anchors are back? They are just proxies.

By: wandegya_boy

wandegya_boy — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 20:58:30 +0000

i am quite sure that both Velshi and Verjee are khoja ismaili

Correct- went to see Velshi at a mini-seminar last year where he talked about his program "the Bottom line" and was most impressed with his manners and his perspective on life in general .....very down to earth type of guy- someone you would not mind to have as your brother-in-law......

By: zahir

zahir — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 20:41:23 +0000

i am quite sure that both Velshi and Verjee are khoja ismaili. verjee def is a khoja name. (i am also an east african khoja so i am familiar w/ the names within the community).

By: Al Mujahid for debauchery

Al Mujahid for debauchery — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 15:58:01 +0000

Ali Velshi might be Iranian.