The Palins are in India, right now! Sarah Palin will be giving the keynote address at the India Today Conclave, a fancy conference whose past keynoters include Al Gore, Benazir Bhutto, and Pervez Musharraf. You can enjoy the unusually intense promo clip up top. Until the Conclave, though, she and Todd have some time to kill, and they're already furious at the Indian media for covering them.

Indian Congress leader Kanwar Singh Tanwar recently celebrated the marriage of his son (not the same son who was arrested for fleeing the scene of a deadly accident last summer) by inviting some 18,000 guests to a £14 million (roughly $22.7 million) celebration in Delhi. He's come under fire from members in his political party who have urged officials to live a little less ostentatiously while so many of their countrymen (and, y'know, constituents) struggle to survive. For his troubles, the groom's parents-in-law gave him a new helicopter.

India is a very resourceful place and so are its people. Watch as a man straps themselves to the back of a speeding van Spiderman style just to catch a ride.

"I'm not one of those... kids who perhaps graduated college and their parents get them a passport and a backpack and say, 'Go off and travel the world,'" Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin told CBS News anchor Katie Couric in 2008. But that was then! This is now: Sarah Palin is going to India in March. Someone get her a passport and a backpack!

Poor Indian Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna! He gave a speech to the U.N. on Saturday about poverty and social unrest—only it was actually the Portuguese Foreign Minister's speech. Luis Amado, Portugal's Foreign Minister, had spoken before Krishna but ditched the prepared remarks; Krishna, apparently, picked up one of the circulated copies of Amado's speech and, not paying very much attention, dove right in, at one point noting his "satisfaction regarding the happy coincidence of having two members of the Portuguese speaking countries addressing the 15-nation council."

[A villager rides a bullock cart in Kosi village, more than 100 miles from Patna, India. Image via AP]

A 94-year-old Indian man is claiming that his 52-year-old wife gave birth to their son last month, which would make him the world's oldest father. Sources say the man is already asking his newborn son to keep his music down.

[While the U.S. Northeast handles "Snowpocalypse," North India is dealing with "A-fog-alypse"—thick fog disrupting flight and train schedules and leaving thousands of passengers stranded. Image via AP]

Last week, India's ambassador was groped by the TSA after speaking at Mississippi State University—she says because of her sari. "I will never come back here," she said, referring to Mississippi. How long until Grope War I?

[French President Nicolas Sarkozy and super hot wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy share a laugh (probably at the President's expense) during a state visit to India today. Image via Getty]

Help us understand this big scandal in India: journalists were caught "having inappropriate conversations with a corporate lobbyist and acting more like power brokers." Huh. In America we give journalists prime editorial columns for that! Thomas Friedman's stumped. [WaPo]

Tonight, Jon Stewart discussed President Obama's trip to India. During it, Stewart questioned Obama's motivation for the trip, before—regarding Obama's dancing—saying, "You campaign with rhythm, but you govern like an old white man at a wedding." Watch inside.

[President Barack Obama, seated between India's president and prime minister, momentarily confuses hand towels with some unusual-looking local cuisine while being served at a state dinner in New Delhi this evening. Image via AP]

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs threatened to call off negotiations with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today after three U.S. reporters were barred from covering the meeting. "Angry words" were shared, but Indian officials finally relented. Image via AP.

Yesterday, the world was gifted with a video of President and Mrs. Obama bustin' some moves with children in Mumbai, India. Now, not 24 hours later, we have this remix: same video, new soundtrack (50 Cent's "In Da Club").

Michelle and Barack Obama got down in India this week, throwing shapes like a couple of ravers 36-hours in at Ibiza. Watch these two wild and crazy kids boogie down with a bunch of Indian children.

[Here's Michelle Obama leading a bunch of kids in song in Mumbai during her and Barack Obama's trip to India. Image via Getty.]

[Indian micro-artist Ramesh Sah shows off his painted thumbnail today as President Obama visits India. Image via AP]

Twenty-five workers at a labor camp in Goregaon, India, claim their penises have inexplicably begun shrinking and retracting into their bodies. The men have been treating the condition by sitting in ice-cold bathtubs. This might be the problem! (via)

President Obama's upcoming trip to India won't cost $200 million a day, and "34 warships" aren't accompanying him to the subcontinent. But it doesn't matter! It's already the hot new right-wing anti-Obama rumor.