Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Doors wide open

Aha!! So the immigrants are coming. Sweden is looking to tap into the Indian talent pool (You too Brutus!!). Click on report for the latest update. The entire speech of the Minister for Migration is here. Am telling you, if civilization needs to progress, we Indians got to be there taking care of the IT side of it!!

Now, you know why the Indian diaspora is almost non-extistant here (The IRF 2005 estimated only about 10,000 Indians of the nearly 2 million residents in Stockholm). Now that you can immigrate even if you are not a political asylum seeker, here’s to more Indian faces!!
Hurrah! Atleast now, there is hope of getting some genuine Indian groceries and restaurants. It’s amazing, misleading and even annoying to note that every Indian restaurant and grocery store is run by a Bangladeshi or a Pakistani. Food, at these restaurants, is super terrible and the stock at the grocery stores… don’t even get me started. If you are looking for South Indian stuff like MTR, rasam powder, sambhar powder, forget it! The only MTR item that I found in a Bangladeshi store (called ‘The Indian Food Store’ was Bhindi masala and Rajmah masala. Damn!! It’s a south Indian brand.. where’s the variety? Anyways, this is the only store that comes close to selling some genuine Indian stuff. So, go for it!

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