The Royal Wedding, prince William, Kate Middleton and Sridi Sai Baba

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Now of Kate Middleton, 18-carat sapphire-and-diamond engagement ring. Formerly of princess Diana Spencer, Prince William’s mom – photo.

Nihal’s programme on the BBC Asian Network, a page about Sai Baba and one of the most important events for the UK. And the same post here. Here, here and here pages about this event.

Thursday April 28, 2011

Updated on Friday April 25, 2011

Nigella Lawson, the Olympics and the extensions

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Nihal’s programme on the BBC Asian Network about Nigella Lawson, Asian girls and losing weight, extensions and the Million Pound Drop and the Olympics in Stratford, East London. And this post here as well.

Friday April 29, 2011

Michael Jackson’s mum, Shakira, George Michael and Coldplay

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Music, pop and MJ

Please read always and carefully the contract or end user licence agreement before downloading music.

Please be careful before downloading music. Sometimes you can’t play a song you legally downloaded on all your equipment.

– Your favourite travel destination – A poll

– Which is your best song? – A poll of mine

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Shakira’s video and interviews. Will you see or have you already seen the video of Shakira’s Give It Up To Me with Lil Wayne? At 3pm on Monday, November 16th, abd there is also an interview with Carolina Bermudez from Z100 in New York on Facebook.

Another interview – this time by the British newspaper The Observer – is here where she speaks of Luciano Pavarotti and her albums. Is she wrong maybe about “Dark Ages” and politicians?

MJ. BBC’s Asian Network Reports with Rozina Sini and Michael Jackson’s mom – please listen to this programme’s episode.

New votes or texts? Please get to know about it through my profiles in PlurkI Like, Bebo, Friendfeed, Twitter and Facebook. And do you listen to BBC Asian Network (videos)?

No sound for Asian Britain? Save the BBC Asian Network! From a blog and a deejay:

Trust has received 1000 complaints to keep Asian Network open. This is ridiculous. The station is key to the Asian music scene.  Seems apathy has reared its ugly head in regards to Save BBC Asian Network. Come on everyone, we can do better than 1000 complaints. EMAIL srconsultation@bbc.co.uk NOW to Save BBC Asian Network. Just be honest. Keep it simple or state your reasons for not closing it down.

26.08.09 – David Guetta and the UK. David Guetta will be on Saturday, August 29, at the Festival SW4 in Londres (UK). Guetta will also be in the same day at the Festival Creamfields in Cheschire (UK). On Sunday, August 30, there also will be Leeds for Guetta at the Kissdafunk.

The States and the Depeche Mode. Depeche Mode will be on Tuesday, September 1st, in Atlanta, at the Lakewood Amphitheater. Who will be the other musicians that night? Peter Bjorn and John…

29.08.09 Depeche Mode will be on Saturday, August 29th, in Dallas, Texas, at the Superpages. As in other dates, there will also be Peter Bjorn and John. On Sunday, August 30th, they will also sing in another important city of this state, Houston, at the Woodlands Pavilion. And next month other concerts in the States. Please be patient and return to this page on September, 1st…

25.08.09 Depeche Mode will play on Tuesday, August 25th, in Salt Lake City, Utah, at the E Center. Before them there also will be Peter Bjorn and John. Denver for them on August, 27th…

Coldplay, The Netherlands and UK. Coldplay will be on Thursday, September 10, in Nijmegen, the Netherlands and on Saturday, September 12, in Manchester, UK.

Sweden. Coldplay will be on Saturday August 22 in Stockholm, Sweden, from 5 pm at the local Stadion…

Television – The a-ha. Will you see a-ha’s concert with Simple Minds in Neuwied, Germany? In television at ARTE at 10:45 pm on Saturday August 22.

In London… The a-ha, the pop group, at The Roundhouse in LondonCamden’s venue – at the iTunes Live Festival on Friday, July 24. They will play after 6 pm and the Reamonn will also be on stage…

– Shakira’s new single, “She Wolf”

Interested at music by George Michael and the Coldplay? You may download for free George Michael’s new single “December Song”, but only till midnight of today, December 26. More time to download a remix of Coldplay’s success “Viva la Vida” till January the 5th.

Chevelle. Chevelle will be on Sunday, August 30, in Pennsylvania at the Festival Pier at Penn’s Landing. On Monday, August 31, she will be at the Champlain Valley Exposition in Essex Junction, Vermont.

25.08.09 Do you know who Chevelle is? A singer, probably… She will be on Tuesday, August 25, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at the Amphitheatre at Station Square.

Mudvayne. Mudvayne will be on Tuesday, September 1, in San Diego, California, at the Sports Arena.

28.08.09 Mudvayne will play in California – on Friday, August 28, in San Jose, California, at the San Jose Civic Auditorium and on Saturday, August 29, in Bakersfield at the Rabobank Arena. And on September 1st… Please be patient and read again this page on that day…

25.08.09 Why this name of the group or singer? On Tuesday, August 25, Mudvayne will be  in Eugene, Oregon, at the Cuthbert Amphiteatre.

The EELS. Songs free by the EELS…

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Friday December 26, 2008

updated on Saturday September 18, 2010

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The Indian Coffee House in Kolkata, Howard Johnson and College Street

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Video and a text here. The rise of Indian coffee exports and BBC Asian Network’s breakfast programmes here.

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1st collector for The Indian Coffee House in Kolkata, Howard John…
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Monday January 3, 2011




Sikh Guramit Singh, Moroccan mint tea, Rabbi Nachum Shifren, gays and Mohammad Ayoud

Save BBC Asian Network & BBC 6music

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BBC Asian Network

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BBC Asian Network’s Nihal, EDL, Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims. Or an article with a video by Catrin Nye: Sikh EDL member Guramit Singh, Tea Party activist Rabbi Nachum Shifren and more.

Monday January 31, 2011

Updated on Tuesday February 1, 2011

British gay men, hammams and the chicken

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A Saag chicken recipe from India. For an Asian “lunch” please see also below.

BBC Two’s Great British Menu. Great British Menu on BBC Two. A video playlist of mine about food.

Asian Music. Bheegi Si Bhaag Si by Raajneeti – listen. I can’t stand it any more. And you?

Gay men in the UK. Robin McKie, science editor for the Observer, writes about the new surrogacy law in the UK that eases gay men to become legal parents.

BBC Asian Network. Maybe these other posts could be interesting for you: Mela in Glasgow and the web, bananas from Bengali, chicken and mayo, the UK, bhangra and Luxembourg, Water, Gorillaz, P!nk and Love Bollywood, Kama Sutra, sexy films and Aku.

Oktapodi.

Dave Grohl and… Foo Fighters studio plans. Lauren Laverne, BBC 6 Music and the Australian solo artist Sarah Blasko. Laureen Laverne is on air weekdays from 10 am to 1 pm on Freeview and Freesat 707, DAB digital radio and online. Have an excellent lunch with her or them or follow her on Twitter

– Stephen ‘Scissor Hands’ Merchant

Homosexuals and lunch. Asian Network Reports with Rozina Sini weekdays from 12:30 to 1 pm and from 6 to 6:30 pm. Have an excellent Asian lunch – or with news from an Asian point of view – with her….

Yorkshire. Racism problems and gay Asians in Yorkshire.

UK Asians ask BBC to save Asian Network. Singer Jay Sean and closure plans of this radio station.

– Tommy Sandhu and bhangra by Pudsey.

Pink. She performs I Don’t Believe You from her CD Funhouse at The Oprah Winfrey Show (video).

Bruce Cockburn and Canada. Bruce Cockburn’s guitar lesson for CBC Radio 2, a Canadian radio station. He plays country music and If I Had A Rocket Launcher.

Schedule by this channel includes also Radio 2 Drive and Tonic.

It’s the UK’s capital… Hammams in “Paul’s Travel Blog” and World Travel Market in London. Your favourite travel destination? Please see at the end of this text.

And have you seen Andrew Earnes’ list of the world’s top five train journeys for The Observer? There is a photo of the Bernina Express in Switzerland and first and second connections are the Trans-Siberian Express and the Caledonian Sleeper (in the UK, from London Euston). The shown links lead to the websites of Poezda, GW Travel, Great Rail Journeys and ScotRail, but I would ask you whether you travel by train and how much you do it.

– Queen Elizabeth II travelling from London King’s Cross –  an article by Helen Pidd and photos for The Guardian. I have known fom this article the Queen travelled to King’s Lynn and Sandringham and in the past to Ely Cathedral in Cambridgeshire and Milton Keynes.

Morrisey, music and a Sunday paper. Morrissey and The Observer. Would you like to vote him below?

Novels, Pinocchio and literature. Pinocchio will also be broadcasted on tv in some English-speaking country as well as in Italy. Or maybe it has already been broadcasted… And where?

Robinson Crusoe and Alice in Wonderland. I found that the producer is Power, a British corporation that has also produced Alice, Alice in Wonderland, Crusoe and A Bear Named Winnie. Flood on ITV1 last year and London… Like the Maldives – ehm, unprobably, we hope – in some years…

Pink, Dave Grohl, Bon Jovi and… What’s on in UK‘s television on Monday, November 1st? You may see Discovery Travel & Living with Virgin Media and BT Vision…If you like pop music, you may see – with Virgin Media – Pink: Greatest Hits on VH1 at 9 pm, followed by Pink: Essential an hour later. There are also Pink: 10 Biggest Hits on MTV Hits at 8 pm and the Official UK Top 40 an hour later, Dave Grohl – The Official All Time Top 40 at 8 pm on MTV Two, The Seventies at Seven at 7 pm on VH1 Classic and, after it,  The Eighties at Eight one hour later, All Time Top 10 Videos two hour later and Bon Jovi: Unplugged three hours later.

Duran Duran. In the USA there is Duran Duran Live at Wembley Arena on VH1 Classic at 4 pm (EST).

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Monday March 8, 2010

updated on Tuesday April 27, 2010

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Roop Kumar Rathod, Sonali, East London, bhangra and the Baishakhi Mela

BBC  Asian Network

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Roop Kumar Rathod, Sonali and BBC Asian Network’s Sonia Deol (page with a  video).

BBC Asian Network’s Bhangra Breakdown with Dipps Bahmrah and Sonia Deol. Music from this programme was also played by other radio programmes – like music by JK, Twin Beats and Offlicence (also played by the presenter Nihal on BBC Radio 1) and Bally Sagoo (also presented by Don Letts on BBC 6 Music).

And why not listening to the news from the Baishakhi Mela in East London?

Do you listen to BBC Asian Network (videos) or 6 Music (videos)?

B21 at London Mela 2009.

No sound of Asian Britain? Save the BBC Asian Network! From a blog and a deejay:

Trust has received 1000 complaints to keep Asian Network open. This is ridiculous. The station is key to the Asian music scene.  Seems apathy has reared it’s ugly head in regards to Save BBC Asian Network. Come on everyone, we can do better than 1000 complaints. EMAIL srconsultation@bbc.co.uk NOW to Save BBC Asian Network. Just be honest. Keep it simple or state your reasons for not closing it down.

Blog. Why signing up to my blog? To read someting else about music, pop and Christina Aguilera. Please see the right side of this page.

My profiles in NetLog, Plurk, I Like and Bebo.

Music. A playlist of mine.

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Sunday May 23, 2010 – updated on Monday November 22, 2010

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