The foreign ministers of India and Pakistan are attempting to revive stalled peace talks.

[Tibetan monks prepare to serve sweetened rice at the 75th birthday party for the Dalai Lama in Dharmsala, India, today. He has been living in Dharmsala since 1959, when he fled Tibet after a failed uprising against China. AP]

Adolf Hitler is enjoying a surge of popularity in India, where a movie is in production, his autobiography is doing brisk sales and the genocidal dictator is "idolized and admired, mostly by the young." Wait, what?

[More than 100 people have died already in India's hottest recorded summer, not to mention scores of bats, crows, and peacocks, as temperatures consistently top 100 degrees Farenheit in Delhi and elsewhere. Guardian; pic via AP]

Eight officials from Union Carbide were found guilty in the deaths of over 15,000 people from a gas leak in Bhopal, India, in 1984. An estimated 600,000 people were affected. They face two years in jail. [BBC, AP]

Two trains have crashed in India, killing at least 65 in a suspected Maoist attack.

23-year-old Pakistani Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab, the only surviving gunman from the November 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack, was today sentenced to death by hanging on charges of murder and waging war against India. [Guardian, pic]

Want to know how paranoid you should be? Google's new toy lets you see how many times your government asked Google for private information. Citizens of Brazil, Germany and India: Fetch your tinfoil hats (chapéus de papel laminado)!

Here in America, Starbucks has already transformed itself from a safe haven for aspirational faux-yuppies into a place for hobos to hang out. But abroad, Starbucks' slate is still clean. China and India: Starbucks is coming for your culture money.

Not only might it get her banned from the country but her documentary about child trafficking drew only 224,000 viewers when it aired on BBC April 1. More people watched an old Gene Kelly film at the same time.

The We We Live Now: Better than we used to. Assuming "we" are farmers in India. And we are, because the only industries left here in the USA are life insurance, and robbing life insurance agents.

The unemployable starlet's only gig was helping children in India, and that may be in jeopardy now that the country is thinking of banning her due to visa violations and talking shit about the country on Twitter.

Most circuses don't include Nissans from the 90's driving at high speeds on a wall so broken down and flimsy that you can see daylight through it. Then again, this isn't like most circuses, because this circus is in India.

An 8000-person tribe is angling to become a cause célèbre via Avatar. "Appeal to James Cameron. Avatar is fantasy... and real," their ad in Variety implores. The Dongria Kondh's land is being mined and polluted. Luckily, their publicist is shrewd.

If you order a Big Mac, does the cook start flinging buns around with fervor and enthusiasm? No, you just hope it comes without spit. Well in India they do fast food the way it's meant to be done.

Sometimes it takes a wacky comedy show montage to remind you how completely ok casual racism still is on the TV. Last night's Daily Show featured this Glenn Beck classic, on how dirty and stupid Indians are.

The showbiz news cycle has ground to a halt. But you'll be glad you stuck with it, because two stories in today's trades reveal very conclusively that sex does not sell but Indians dancing do. Use this knowledge wisely.

When opening the first outlet of your chain of ice cream stores in India here is a hint: Do not use a catch-phrase in advertisements which specifically bars Indians from entering the store. Haagen-Dazs did, and they are in trouble.

Men in England have a new plan for getting laid. They go to India, marry women, tell them they'll bring them back soon (but that they should have lots of sex first) then fly home, abandon them and stop calling.

It's great that Google has contests awarding money and computers to schoolchildren. Less great: It gives the victor in India 1/20th of what an American kid gets for winning the same contest.