Mooove over, Coke and Pepsi: India develops cow urine soft drink

BY Rosemary Black DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Friday, February 13th 2009, 4:33 PM

Holy cow: A new soft drink made with bovine urine is under development in India, and if that country's leading Hindu cultural group has its way, the beverage will be marketed as a "healthy" alternative to Coke and Pepsi. The soft drink, called "Gau Jal" – that's Sanskrit for "cow water" - is undergoing lab tests and could be launched "very soon, maybe by the end of this year," Om Prakash, the head of India's cultural group, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), told the London Times.
"Don't worry, it won't smell like urine and it will be tasty, too," he said in ...read more

Obama Should Visit India--Soon

It's time for the Democrats to cement America's major new alliance.

My fellow columnist Gordon G. Chang made a piquant point in this space last week in his preview of Hillary Clinton's trip to East Asia--her first trip abroad as secretary of state. Chiding her for what he regarded as a scheduling misjudgment, he wrote that "she should have reserved time for a stop-over" in India. I agree with him 100%.

Ironically, even as Mrs. Clinton was packing her valise for Beijing, a senior spokesman for the Congress Party, which heads the ruling coalition in New Delhi, made an impassioned freelance appeal for George W. Bush to be awarded the Bharat Ratna ("Jewel of India"), the country's highest civilian award. The Bharat Ratna is a big, big deal in India and has been awarded only 41 times since its inception in 1954--and only twice to non-Indians, one of whom was the sainted Nelson Mandela. The Congress Party quickly distanced itself from its spokesman's appeal, no doubt regarding it as a particularly ...read more

'Slumdog Millionaire's' Freida Pinto gazes beyond India

With the success of the movie, it's the Indian actress' moment, and she's seizing it in style.
By BOOTH MOORE, Fashion Critic February 15, 2009
A black SUV sidles up to the curb on Pioneer Boulevard and out climbs Freida Pinto in Chanel shades and a royal blue Moschino dress, with her makeup artist, the makeup artist's assistant and her publicist in tow. It's quite an entourage for sleepy Artesia, home to Southern California's Little India, where mom-and.... read more

Martin Luther King, III Pays Tribute To Gandhi In India

In other international headlines, Martin Luther King the Third, paid tribute to India's icon Mahatma Gandhi at his memorial today commemorating the 50th anniversary of his parents' pilgrimage to the country to study non-violence.
King, accompanied by his wife Arndrea, laid a wreath at the spot where Gandhi fell to assassin's bullets on January 30th, 1948 in the Indian capital of New Dehli.

Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King, travelled to India just four years after he successfully led the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama to end segregation on public transportation. Read More