Comments on: The Story of Oil

By: maria

maria — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:59:40 +0000

The version of Crude aired on the History Channel is re-versioned for a US audience. This means that some of the original interviews with International scientists were replaced with those of US scientists. This doesn’t diminish the film’s validity but it does present a different program than the original.

For those interested in the original Australian version, and more, the website to visit is: http://www.abc.net.au/science/crude.

By: Salil

Salil — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 02:08:16 +0000

Harminder #25,

Is Singapore as racist and repressive as its reputation? Are Desis restricted in their place to live? Too many cannot live in an apartment complex. Does the government routinely taxes/fines people for political speech? Is there no freedom of assembly? Are political publications are highly regulated?

By: brownelf

brownelf — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:32:40 +0000

Harminder (#25), I can totally relate . “But I knew someone else who was from Malaysia, and they looked nothing like you!” Right, because all us natives must surely look alike, yes?

By: Fuerza Dulce

Fuerza Dulce — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:42:17 +0000

Yeah – but it wasn’t Iron Chef.

By: Ennis

Ennis — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:25:01 +0000

You know Padma Laxmi had her own show on the Food Network back in the day.

By: Fuerza Dulce

Fuerza Dulce — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:22:57 +0000

Oh My God. So as excited as Vinod was to see a desi interview on the History Channel (I'm a super History Channel ~~nerd~~ afficionado myself), the only other channel that could make me as excited to see brown representation is the Food Network. I am watching the Iron Chef: America right now - it's Battle: Daal (Lentils) and one of the judges is a fellow brown lady - Monisha Bhardwaj. I have to admit - I felt a little something jumbly in my tummy when I saw a brown lady judging on one of my favorite shows on the Food Network. (I do with they still showed the original Iron Chef as well though.)

By: harminder

harminder — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:07:39 +0000

as a desi singaporean, i’ve often been told that i “don’t look singaporean” Leaves me wondering what to say without being rude…

By: Boris

Boris — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:36:42 +0000

Didn’t she also write a book about pharmaceutical companies and medical experimentation on the third world poor?

By: najeeb

najeeb — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:35:46 +0000

It seems like an interesting documentary – i’d love to see it.

By: SP

SP — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:37:10 +0000

Vinod–thanks for an excellent post. Apart from her writing a book on a fascinating subject in general (oil), with an all-too-doubly-entendre’d title, Shah’s writing style seems catchy. To combine oil with the ordinary.. no easy task!