http://blog.sabasearch.com Houston's South Asian Community Blog Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:38:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The new Batman movie, The Dark Knight, opened this past weekend. This movie has broken all kinds of records so far. It had the best midnight showing for a Thursday and it raked in over $155 million over the whole weekend to make it the biggest opening weekend at the ... http://blog.sabasearch.com/the-dark-knight/ Living in the United States all my life, I've noticed through the years that Indian style tattoos (specifically the Om sign and Hindu gods) have really become popular among Tattoo bearing individuals.  Nowadays, its hard to walk through a mall or a college campus without seeing a Ganesh, Krishna, Vishnu, ... http://blog.sabasearch.com/indian-south-asian-hindu-tattoos-body-art/ Good morning my fellow sabasearchers, over the weekend I was doing some reading when I came upon an article: Kumari Mayawati, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, India's largest state, has emerged as the most important low-caste politician in India's history, and she is asserting herself as a rainbow coalition leader, ... http://blog.sabasearch.com/people-are-watching/ Hey everyone, welcome back to Weekend Weedeos, Episode 5!  We hope everyone is having a great weekend. Brace yourself folks, this weekend's video will knock you out of your chair!  This one is out of control HILARIOUS!  Sanjeev Patel and Dustin Grove star in this Youtube video that features a young Indian ... http://blog.sabasearch.com/weekend-weedeos-episode-5-desi-men-love-white-beaches/ India tourism from the United States rose 10% from 2006 to 2007. Check out why this may be in the CNN article below. Keith Lotman went to New Delhi on a two-week business trip. But a quick day of sightseeing in India's capital city left him enthralled and ready to ... http://blog.sabasearch.com/india-has-recently-started-attracting-a-different-class-of-visitors/ TATA, India's largest car manufacturer, has done it again!  First with the World's Cheapest Car, and now with the world's first AIR fueled car.  Our bets are on TATA for coming up with the world's first flying car....but i guess that will be a blog post for later. TATA is being ... http://blog.sabasearch.com/tata-air-car-minicat-coming-to-us-by-2010/ Well... not so much in my pants... but they're everywhere else! The other day, I was working in my office at home and heard my wife scream. I really didn't think anything of it cause, well she over reacts to the smallest things... but still, I came down to check on ... http://blog.sabasearch.com/ants-in-my-pants/     It doesn't matter who you are, you need to be on LinkedIn.  LinkedIn is the Facebook for professionals and is growing faster that you can ever imagine.   Generation 1.0 social networking sites like Facebook and Friendster have provided awesome opportunities and platforms for friends to connect, share pictures, post events, share ... http://blog.sabasearch.com/are-you-linkedin-south-asian-desis/ Dayana Mendoza, Miss Venezuela, took the crown of Miss Universe 2008 in Sunday night's pageant from Nha Trang, Vietnam.  Even though she won the title, she was over shadowed by the performance of our very own Miss USA.  Crystle Stewart, Miss USA, is from Missouri City (that's right, she's a Houston girl) and put ... http://blog.sabasearch.com/miss-universe-2008/ That's right folks, we're giving away 2 FREE tickets to one lucky winner to go see Amitabh, Abhishek, Ashwairya, Priti, Madhuri and more LIVE in Houston on the Unforgettable Tour Concert show! If you've already gotten your tickets, register to win 2 more so that you can take your friends!  If ... http://blog.sabasearch.com/2-free-tickets-to-unforgettable-tour-concert-in-houston/