"I see the nuns are gay..."

Every now and then I bump into some major item of popular culture that 90% of Indians would have experienced 2 years back... sometime back it was Rang de Basanti, today it was Tunak Tunak Tun, a hit song by Daler Mehendi. According to Wikipedia its become an 'internet meme'. Dig out the Wiki article, its quite cool.
It may be contempt for the familiar, but I find this video light years more palatable than the average Telugu/Tamin movie dance sequence. On a separate note, I was wondering how our rich tradition of classical music and dance have not really survived in the 21st century. A counter-example is bhangra pop of the Daler Mehendi sort which is very popular inside and outside the country. Can someone extract some insight from this ?

Talking of bhangra, time to again push
http://www.salon.com/ent/audiofile/2006/08/02/bikram/index.html
Can someone pleeease hear this song and put in your comment. Its frustrating feeling that you have discovered something pretty cool and nobody else has anything to say about it.

The earlier Buffalax video continues to enthrall me (and several others it seems). Here are the updates:

The original video is here:



It has close to 7 million views and (hold your breath) 20,000 comments. And that doesn't include comments on sites referring to it, like yours truly's blog. The video was uploaded in August 2007 and its still getting comments today from wide eyed folks like me who are seeing it for the first time and getting completely bowled over. According to a newspaper article referenced in Wikipedia, its being called possibly the hottest Internet clip. Whoda thunk it -- a satire of a Tamil movie becoming the most viewed internet video. As one of the commenters says : "Due this video, my theory of Indian people trying to take over the earth has only grown stronger.. "
I checked out more buffalax videos, but nothing comes anywhere close to this one. Its one of those things where things just come together to take something out of the realm of the ordinary. The thing is not perfect -- at several places its pretty clear that the 'translation' is a complete fake. But when it works, it works gloriously. One good bit among many : at 2:55, the background music is given words and it works sooooo well.
Again, according to wikipedia, buffalax and 'benny lava' are now internet memes. Richly deserving.

Endnote:
Today at a KFC, we ordered "a Zing Kong box and a Zinger Chicken meal". The minor indignities ...