Comments on: Top Fifteen of 2010

By: Aravind Menon

Aravind Menon — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 10:39:26 +0000

The Binayak Sen judgement, on Dec 24th. After all the inconsistencies in the case and the ecidence, and the pyrrhic supreme court victory of the bail application being passed early this year, the judgement was shocking and deeply disappointing. This has potential to become India’s Liu Xiabao moment. And what about the stone-pelters, the security council seat carrot-dangle and the year-long season of scams?

By: Pravin

Pravin — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:10:03 +0000

I personally like Outsourced these days. I didnt care for the pilot, but it has grown on me.

By: John Jacobi

John Jacobi — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 15:45:41 +0000

The people here at Sepia Mutiny are easily offended. Got a chip on your shoulder or something? There is nothing particularly offensive about this SNL skit or Outsourced or even Joel Steyn. The major problem with Joel Steyn and the SNL skit were that they were not funny. Outsourced is hilarious and beloved by everybody – especially Indians. And please use the word “racist” only when appropriate or it loses its bite. Racism is “hatred or intolerance of another race or other races.”. Do you really think M Night is racist? Or that he thinks white people are superior because of his casting choices?

By: Eurasian Sensation

Eurasian Sensation — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 15:04:34 +0000

That SNL skit is terrible. And completely unfunny. And a lame rip-off of “The Kumars at Number 42″. With some actual Indians and some smarts, it could have possibly become a decent skit, but it’s really, really bad. Ugh.

By: boston_mahesh

boston_mahesh — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:08:06 +0000

taz replied to comment from boston_mahesh Eww, that is totally offensive. And not funny. How did I miss this? When did this come out?

Mar 14, 2010 is probably when it was released.

By: Zyzz

Zyzz — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 07:53:00 +0000

No I actually disagree bitch

By: taz

taz — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 06:39:37 +0000

Eww, that is totally offensive. And not funny. How did I miss this? When did this come out?

By: boston_mahesh

boston_mahesh — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 05:44:55 +0000

Happy New Year’s to all of you,

Although we have all had our resentment to that Joel Stein article about Indians in Edison, NJ, there was also a clip on SNL about Indians in Edison, NJ. I personally found the SNL clip to be very offensive, and it was written with malicious intentions in my honest opinion. At least Stein was trying to be funny, but he was accidentally offensive. I believe that this SNL clip was purposely offensive (or finger-pointing) and incidentally funny.

The person who plays “Ravish Vandershekhara” is Nasim Pedrad, and she’s from a minority community in Iran. I’m sure that she, or her parents, knew what it was like coming from a minority and persecuted group. In this clip, Ravish Vandrashekeran’s family is depicted as debilitatingly money-minded, over-bearing, and gullible. Moreover, Ravish is a socially-awkward, memorizer of trivial data, and quintessentially not American.

Here is a where you can view this clip: http://www.hulu.com/watch/134725/saturday-night-live-talk-show-with-ravish

Am I the only Desi who is very offended by this clip (especially after that stupid comment about changing career plans due to Jay Leno making more money than some desi professional job)?

By: asad

asad — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 07:32:51 +0000

just adding the â™¥ that disappeared from my first comment (it’s for archie panjabi, of course).

By: asad

asad — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 07:26:12 +0000

happy new year ^_^

personally, the first time i actually felt kind of afraid of living in the US because of racism/islamophobia was this year.

saw a few neat shows: the kominas, sunny ali and the kid and shilpa ray and her happy hookers.

oh, and discovering "the good wife"/re-discovering archie panjabi <33