Boo!& BooHoo Another ABJECT SURRENDER- India Cricket team- Indian American org Blog

NOV 26 Boo HOO! ANOTHER “ABJECT SURRENDER” By INDIA’s CRICKET TEAM- in SOUTH AFRICA
In OTHER SPORTS NEWS- CRICKET- “Once More “Abject Surrender” in 2nd One Day Match

The Indian Cricket Team in South Africa seems Undercooked, UnderPrepared and Quite Well Done already!
What was declared as Abject Surrender in South Africa after the capitulation in the first ODI… or More to it than meets the Eye??
The Indian Cricket team visiting South africa put on a pathetic dislay while losing by a HUGE margin in One day Cricket. This was soundly bythe media and public alike and eservedly so. And fo course many did speak about being a one time thing (!!) etc But Not quite!
Soon came the latest second ODI- which ended today Sunday nov 26th and South Africa did expose the flaws in all aspects of the Indian Cricket team….….. Basically Undercooked, Underprepared yet Pampered team at the whims of a Coach and Selection committee whch has crammed in a scedule barely fiving time for the cruiclkceters to relax, rehab from their individual nagging injuries.
The idea about “pay on performance” makes sense especially when Cricket garners all the lucrative commercial and advertising contracts- while other sports are awy behind! With Indian and the Indian Sub continent being one of the largest market and revenue producing nation, the impending trouble between the Int’l ICC and local Indina Cricketing Board will hopefully take into acount players welfare and scheduling issues- which seems to be affecting the Indian Cricket team more than others.
With India’s Cricket Coah Greg Chappel lauded when Indian was winning 5 day tests, the problems of the Indina team in playing the limited over One day cricket has again surfaced. Remember Pakistan tour esp ODI following Sri Lanka etc?
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WORLD BOXING CHAMPS-WOMEN- INDIA!!- Nov 25 Indian American org Sam Rao blog

NOV 26: WORLD CHAMP’s IN WOMEN’s BOXING- INDIA!! Surprise Beating out Strong teams from Europe including Russia and Romania etc- INDIA emerged as the Team Champs in Womens World Cup Bocing ! With Four Gold, One Silver and Three Bronze medals!they beat Russia, several EU countries!! Three Time WORLD CHAMP Ms MARY KOM of Manipur India & Teammates of TEAM INDIA WIN @ World Cup Womens Boxing 2006 On November 23- India’s Women Boxing team won Team Gold by beating out teams like Russia, Romania, Korea etc – powerhouses in Boxing! India’s final tally of four gold, one silver and three bronze out of 13 weight categories secured them the Title of Best team in Women’s Boxing!! 25-year-old Mary Kom (Three-peat Champ!!) beat Romanian Steluta Duta in the 46 kg for the Gold Medal as did Sarita Devi (52 kg), Ralte Jenny (63 kg) and Kozhummel Lekha (75 kg),a Silver for N Usha (57kg) and Bronze medals for Chhotu Laura (50 kg), Aruna Mishra (66 kg) and Renu (80kg). Team India tallied 34 points and beat Russia by Six points! Yes India as Champs in Women’s Boxing!! Of the thirteen countries weight classes, Russia won 3 Gold and 3 Silver and over all EU teams- which are traditionally regarded as the Best in the world- managed only Eight victories. North Korea claimed two Gold and 1 Bronze, while Canada, Turkey, Ireland and France claimed one Gold each in the 13 weight categories championship READ MORETechnorati Tags:Boxing, Women, IWorld cup, Woman, ndia, Asian, Sports, ,Asian Indian, Indo American, South Asian, Women Desi, NRI, Tags: Boxing, Women, World cup,woman, India, Asian, Sports, Badminton,Asian Indian, Indo American, South Asian, Women Desi, NRI,

Its SAINA this Time with SANIA- World Jr. Badminton Silver-Indian American Org

NOV 25: ANOTHER WOMAN ON THE RISE In INDIA SPORTS- SAINA NEHWAl- Badminton
Similar in Spelling to Sania Mirza ( Indi’as top ranked Tennis Player), 16 year old Saina is th Ranked 27th in the World after getting a Silver at the World’s junior Badmintion

Great Strides considering that she started the year in 150th place and now is 27th!!
Saina,won the India international tournament in Mumbai before reaching the final of the World Junior Championship,losing to Chinese counterpart.Earlier she showed her brilliance by capturing a Bronze a the CommonWealth Games and she created history when she became the first Indian woman player to win a four-star badminton tournament,at the Philippines Open at Pasig City, Manila.
Next comes the Asian Games campaign in Doha. Way to Go Saina. We wish you All the Best!
Other Badminton rankings of India ( Men’s) : Chetan Anand 31; Anup Sridhar(National champ) 39; Nikhil Kanetkar 43; P Kashyap 46
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Indian American Org Sam Rao Blog Nov 15 ANU NATARAJAN 1st Indian American City Councilmember Fremont

 Nov 15: US ELECTION 2006
NOV 15:ALL POLITICS IS LOCAL Join me in Congratulating ANU NATARAJAN - City Councilmember of Fremont in SF Bay Area, California.  POD CAST   and INTERVIEW Below
  This is the FIRST Time that an Indian-American has been ELECTED to City Council of a major city in Sf Bay area. And  a Strong Woman at that!!! Yay!!

         PODCAST  EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Podcast Nov 12
ANU NATARAJAN (MP3)                                    PRINT INTERVIEW (Pdf)   Nov 14 
    The Best part was ANU managed to forge a Broad based support spanning across ALL communities and ethnicities AND THE BEST PART- SHE MANAGED TO BRING ALL FACTIONS OF INDIAN-AMERICANS TO THE SAME ROOM! and be UNIFIED & SHOW SUPPORT!!!      Me thinks – This is one of the best achievements I must say- along the lines of Assemblymember Upendra Chivakula of New Jersey!

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SEND CONGRATS TO ANU NATARAJAN-  Go to www.indian-american.org
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Indian American Org Sam Rao Blog May- November 10

US ELECTIONS 2006:  A Momentous decision indeed- as in any election.   However, this mid term election was especially monumental as last two times, the US Elections were actually quite deadlocked and with controversy…..  Remember 2000 with a tie for George Bush Jr and Al Gore Jr!!  and them the Florida controversy  and with Kerry and the rest… anyway, with the Theme this time being ” Its the War Stupid” – people clearly spoke AGAINST the Unilateralism of Dick Cheney, George Bush and Rumsfeld  and its clear that DONALD RUMSFELD was left out to dry.    About time too…  Now I wonder how much of arrogance and spunk is left in the Bush Cheny admistration or should I say mean spiridtedness! for after al they have 2 more years to govern albeit with a Democratic controlled House & Senate.

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CONGRATULATE THE  INDIAN AMERICANS
WIN in 2006 ASSEMBLY and CONGRESS
Bobby Jindal R-  Congress Louisiana
Satveer Chaoudhary D– State Senate– Minnesota
Kumar Barve- D-  Assembly – Maryland
Swati Dandekar D- Assembly – Iowa
Nikki randhawa- R- Assembly – South Carolina
Jay Goyal- D- Assembly- Ohio
Raj Goyle- D- Assembly – Kansas-
and a few more in local races across the country

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     As one can tell overall with a Democratic Wave overwhelmed many Republicans especially who got crossover votes in the last two major elections….
Which brings us to WILL THE REAL DEMOCRAT STAND UP? and WHo are th Real Democrats and Their Platform?    Kudos to Howard Dean and his forward loking DNC for bringing a consensus out of people but will policies also follow suit??
Good Luck Nancy Pelosi- The first Woman speaker of The House ( Ma is USA Behind the times) and Senator Harry Reid from Nevada and rest of the Gang and God Help US And US ALL!
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Indian American Org Sam Rao Blog Nov 3 baby Elephan Houstin Zoo – Sulekha

Nov 3:  Help Select the Name for Cute Male Baby Indian Elephant- Free Entry

Sundar or Janu ?? CLICK to Vote

NAME THAT BABY ELEPHANT @ Houston Zoo Entries being Accepted. The Cute Male Baby Elephant has 5 Choices-  2 Indian Names ( SUNDAR  OR JANU )

US TROOPS RESPONSE TO John Kerry’s remark about Uneducated US Troops

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Nov2:   Sulekha.Com gets $10 Milion from NorWest Venture Partners
Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) invested $10 million in Sulekha.com Inc., one of the ost visited Indian online social media The site caters to people of Indian origin and local commerce site for people in or from India.
NVP ‘s  investment is Sulekha’s first institutional round of funding. < style=”font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;”>Sulekha.com has grow over the years offering a variety of interactive services in the areas of social media such as blogs, groups and networking and local commerce such as classifieds, yellow pages and events in 25 cities worldwide, including eight in India.
NVP said Sulekha.com has more than 2 million unique visitors to its site each month, and features over 10 million pages of content, almost all of it contributed by members.
.Sulekha.com plans to use the new capital to extend business development and marketing, primarily through alliances, and expand its service offerings into new vertical markets.
Serial entrepreneur Promod Haque, managing partner at NVP, has joined the Sulekha board of directors, as part f the deal.
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Indian American Org Sam Rao Blog Oct 30- Safest City Cities FBI

Oct 30- Top and bottom SAFEST Cities in the USA 2006  by FBI (caveat only cities which reported crime make the list)

FBI Nomenclature   1= SAFEST and LAST ( 371) = MOST DANGEROUS

SAFEST       CITY		MOST DANGEROUS CITY		NOTABLE CITY RANKINGS	NOTABLE CITY RANKINGS	NOTABLE CITY RANKINGS
<>1. Brick, N.J. 2. Amherst, N.Y. 3. Mission Viejo, Calif. 4. Newton, Mass. 5. Troy, Mich. 6. Colonie, N.Y. 7. Irvine, Calif. 8. Cary, N.C. 9. Greece, N.Y. 10. Coral Springs, Fla.		361. Richmond, Calif. 362. Gary, Ind. 363. Youngstown, Ohio 364. Oakland, Calif. 365. Cleveland 366. Birmingham, Ala. 367. Camden, N.J. 368. Compton, Calif. 369. Flint, Mich. 370. Detroit 371. St. Louis For a complete List  CLICK HERE (Text doc)		23. Edison, N.J. 38. Sunnyvale, Calif. 50. Boca Raton, Fla. 51. Livermore, Calif. 53. Fremont, Calif. 56. Tracy, Calif. 57. Bellevue, Wash. 67. Santa Clara, Calif. 68. Daly City, Calif. 73. Alexandria, Va. 74. Virginia Beach, Va. 75. Ann Arbor, Mich. 112. San Jose, Calif. 113. Honolulu, Hawaii 132. Chesapeake, Va.	142. Concord, Calif. 145. New York City 158. Austin, Texas 162. Raleigh, N.C. 172. Lexington, Ky. 186. San Diego, Calif. 216. Louisville, Ky. 220. Spokane, Wash. 221. Reno, Nev. 247. Salt Lake City, Utah 248. Jacksonville, Fla. 249. Portland, Ore. 250. Los Angeles 262. Seattle 270. San Francisco 300. North Las Vegas, Nev.	302. Las Vegas, Nev. 303. Denver 314. Boston 316. Tampa, Fla. 317. Jersey City, N.J. 318. Milwaukee 319. Miami Beach, Fla. 320. Indianapolis, Ind. 321. Shreveport, La. 322. Sacramento, Calif. 325. Houston 336. Stockton, Calif. 343. Philadelphia 350. Newark, N.J. 353. Washington 354. Cincinnati 355. Atlanta

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OCT 27: Ex Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh Heckled
Ex Foreign Minser Jaswant Singh, presumeably on his book promotion tour, was hecked and protested by a group of Sikh and other activists at UC Berkeley’s International House.
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Indian American Org Sam Rao Blog Oct 30 Hijab Wear Afghani Woman shot Dead Hate Crime

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Hijab wearing Afghani Woman shot Dead in Fremont SF Bay Area A Hijab (head covering) wearing Afghani woman was shot dead in Fremont in broad daylight at abot 3PM. Th motive is not clear but chillls has gone down the immigrant community and community at large. First a killing in broad daylight is bad esp in a “safe city” like Fremont     Second, if a Hate Crime- ALL Asian and Miidle Easterna and NOT JUST Muslim Women are targets. As Indian Muslim women as wel as many other wear Hijabs. plus Amny Hindus, Sikhs wear Salwar Punjabi dress- with head covered. It should be apparent to most people that the hate Crime perpertrators are really not the most knowlegeable- so they would easily “mistake” their targets. This was clear at the Memorial service and also as many calls and community action to counter this has started taking pace READ MORE

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Indian American Org Sam Rao Blog Oct 27 Sunnyvale Diwali

OCT 27th Sunnyvale Diwali draws 10,000
Sunnyvale Diwali on Friday Oct 21 to Sunday Oct 23- drew about 10,000 .
Though the daytime activities were sparsely attended, attendance picked up each evening for the Bollywood music show.
Singer Debojit on Friday went well with audience tho’ star Abhijeet was his arrogant self on Saturday and sang ONLY his won songs but redeemed himself with the audience by accepting requests etc and singing Old Kishore Kumar, Rafi favorites asw ell.

Unfortuneately, seem most of the NRI’s with kids and ffamily continue to view the Bollywood dose including the Childrens programs- which has an overdose of Bollywood songs and dances- as the ONLY CULTURAL & HERITAGE FIX of INDIA.
Most almost 75% of the audience did not even bother to go to the Temple portion and were content to stay in the Mela and concert portion of the premises.
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Indian American Org Sam Rao Blog Oct 10- Oct 27

OCT 27: Spoony Singh- Hollywood Pioneer dies
Spoony Singh (83) died few days before his 84th birthday. Singh was the proud owner for over 40 years of the Hollywood Wax museum on Hollywood Blvd.The museum was open Feb 10, 1965 and remained an very popular tourist destination
Although peoples fascination with wax figures is sort of wierd but is accepted as normal because of museusms like Spoonys andd Madam Taussad’s

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OCT 24: India’s Finance Misiter  Chidambaram visits Silicon Valley followed by  Ex Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh
Silicon Valley will see couple of powerful Indian politicians and lawmakers visit this weekend.

Current Finiace minister (before any reshuffle that may take place)- is in preset Cabinet and oversees the emergence of Indian as a potential Superpower in the near future.

The same week, Ex Foreign minister Jaswant Singh- will be making his rounds aswell- in time to promote his book- whch was a sunject of a small well planned “controversy”.
Singh- who speaks in clipped British accented English- is known for his command of the klanguage and not much else- esp he is known to say a lot and not convey much.  This wa pointed out in no uncertain terms bu the US officials- when important discussions were often siderailed by Mr Singh- who seemed to love his oen voice.
Fieldi ng a lot of flak from his own political party for never being elected (rather being appinted< Singh further alienated people with his dislcosure of “inner secrets” of a Working Mole spy” in the Indian Cabinet!

LA Yoga Guru Bikram Choudhury fined $8000 by Los Angeles City
Bikram Choudhury- the LA Yoga Guru who specializes in teaching “HOT YOGA” was fined $8000 by Los Angeles City officials 
  The HOT Yoga teacher was convicted of Operating without a permit and Business licence and cited for a variety of violations in his studio.  However, the lawyers of Chiudhury (Yoga Inc.) filed a “No-Contest” plea- where they accept the judgement/fine but without admission of guilt.
The settlement is for paying the fine of $8000 and all other charges were ropped.
Last reports indicate that Bikamji will move to Hawaii.  Earlier he had reconted that LA officials had a “vendetta” against him
It may also be recalled that Bikram Chudhury- who has massed millions teaching Yoga to Wetserners and  Hollywood celebrities etc- tried to “patent” and “copyright” 26 Asanas which he teaches.  This was in an effirt to collect franchise fees from his diwnlie teachers of Bikram Hot Yoga.  The arguements AGAINST Choudhury – taken up by seevral including Yoga Collectives was that one cant copyright a 5000 year old heritage  ( DUH!!)
This case was also settled out of court.  (Sorry Hawaii)
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Oct 18th- Mumbai Cricketer Wears West Indies Uniform
In case you didnt catch it- In India Cricket hstory was made when an severely under manned West Indies team used a LOCAL CRICKETER as a fielder for the West Indies Team!
In a rare incient, Mumbai wicketkeeper Vinayak Samant, donned the West Indies colors as a sustitute when 4 players were indisposed during the Australia vs West Indies Champions Trophy 2006 in India.
With Collymore back to W. Indies, Chandrapaul injured, Lara’s back cramps- when Runako Norton wanted to go off field, W. Indies were left with only 10 players ( almost like Mumbai Gully Cricket- where we would use a “jack” or “Spare” or “Tapori”  :-0

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