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Re: Recessive gene

Shubhojit — Wed, 16 May 2007 07:25:33 -0000

This sure was a wonderful piece of humour although you might not have meant it to be. Ha, warding off marriage proposals. I've been doing that for the past 3 years and now my mom has decided that giving me the silent treatment may work. We can have an arrangement though to keep both parents happy :D! Kidding!
But of all what you've said, its so much prevalent in other states too. I never stayed or grew up in Bengal so many a times I find some of the things they do so ridiculous. But at the end of it all, its our roots which do give us an identity. What we should continue doing is assimilating others too, like u've done staying in Mumbai. & ofcourse, food is never to be missed :)

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ideasmith — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 07:25:52 -0000

@ 'nonnymus: What's this...the 'playing hard-to-get' on the blogsphere game? Plizz to comment as often and as freely as you like...in case you haven't guessed, bloggers lurrrrrve comments! Also, I didn't grow up in Delhi (NOOOOO!!!!!), I was only born there and immediately whisked off to Mumbai (thank goodness!). Yup, the stereotypes sure are funny when seen in that light, it's when they become de rigeur for life that its painful.

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'nonnymus — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 23:37:59 -0000

Lol... Ok... I've gone on a reading binge it looks like.. and a commenting binge too!!
To b honest, seeing the number of my consecutive comments, I refrained myself from commenting again too soon... but what the heck.
Funny aint it? You grew up in Delhi and I grew up in Chennai!! And I damned love it(Chennai I mean)... cant stop laughing at 'typicalism'.. It sounds kind o incredulous dosent it?? Civilization itself? When we see how rigid, dogmatic and conventional humans can be?

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ideasmith — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 07:06:40 -0000

@ Echo: :D...thats chweet..

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An Echo — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:49:27 -0000

I simply love the way u write. I am ur ac dc fan cooler ..... :-)

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ideasmith — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 01:16:14 -0000

@ Adrianne, Sofia, Univ of Michigan(?): Thank you!

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Sundar — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 09:17:00 -0000

lovely wordsmithing...-->

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Prabu Karthik — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 17:23:00 -0000

I am a person who has never ever been outside tamil nadu except say for a few days in all these 29 yrs...

You can imagine better if i say my hindi vocabulary starts with "kya?" and ends with"Mein Hindi nai maalum"

like it or not, we a have stereotypes in one way or the other...

and let me not get started on my girl searching which looks likely to go on till India wins World cup soccer (not in another 30 yrs for sure :D)

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The ramblings of a shoe fiend — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:32:00 -0000

as a card bearing tam myself must admit was a bit miffed at some of your comments ... a tam trait - don't really wnt to acknowledge what's true! but was very pleased towards the end! also may i add - mani ratnam over yash chopra/kamal and rajini over any khan and thayir sadam over any food ever made :D there i'm done

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Me — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 22:10:00 -0000

Hey did you know that the Tamil race has over 5000 years worth of heritage. That's much older than your average aryan clan.

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gvenum — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 01:48:00 -0000

LMAO. That was hilarious.

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Bonatellis — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 19:54:00 -0000

first time I came by ... must say enjoyed every word ....
and most impressed by the number of blogs that u have ...

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Nandu — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 18:49:00 -0000

Lovely post. I completely identify with the feelings about Tamilian software professionals!

Nice blog, am here for the first time! Will be back......

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Anonymous — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 13:59:00 -0000

btw... AWESOME the way you remember all the saree-descriptions... (unless you wrote this WHILE you were at the wedding !!)

-anon1

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Anonymous — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 13:58:00 -0000

So I'm in Iyer-land for a while.. (2 weeks.. ) and I made friends with my course instructor who's a Mumbai-born-brought-up-Tamilian married to a Punjabi-dude-from-Delhi who feels more at home in Chennai than she does...

I'd show her your post.. but she jus left for home (apparently her "bachcha" at home...is crying for "Mamma" !!)

She had a lot to say about life in Chennai.. stuff that you have already mentioned in your blog...
But the things that have troubled her most of all in CHennai are (that):
- She has to be conscious of what she's wearing to work/to the market.. unless she wants to be the "Talk of the Town"
- She has practically NO social circle, just not as easy to make friends as it was in Mumbai..
- Most women at work chat only about "SUN TV" or gossip about other women..
- If she spends too much with time with the "guys at work" then she's again abt becoming the "talk of the town" or that they might get the "wrong impression" about her..

I don think this is something you can experience until you actually LIVE here for an extended period..

Ok.. Im writing all this..coz I have lots of free time.. M waiting for my cab to take me back to my Hotel.

cheerio,
-anon1

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Frigid Midget — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 06:33:00 -0000

Guess where I am right now?
Yes, you guesse it right!

Feels good to be back here though.

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Nish — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 09:20:00 -0000

Tht ws really fun to read...cant believe getting ur kid married to the "right" boy is still such a big deal. I'm not tamilian but wud u believe I'm close friends with about 10...most of them are mixes tho as in tam/srilankan, tam/malaysian and even tho they've been outside/never been to their country..they tell me they are prepared for an arranged marriage (somewhat)...its v weird..but i guess its culture.

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Aekta — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 12:37:00 -0000

Yet another interesting perspective to you :-)

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NoHairBrain — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 17:58:00 -0000

GArfy: Come one over .. I will make the Dosas for you without the fattening :D
Smity: the offer of carnatic music, Kaapi , hot sambar and not-so-eligible bachelor , not-really-a-software professional still holds :D

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garfy — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 15:20:00 -0000

Right on about the fattening bit. Everytime I visit my best friend's house (shes a Tam), her mom just has to get me to eat something and then she worries about me not eating enough, not eating frequently enough, not having enough fruits... but you know what? I just love her mom for that! I havent seen anyone as persistent and active enough to make dosas for me in under 5 minutes just cos she knows I love southie food!

=)

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The Lone Rangers — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:47:00 -0000

I agree with Ava, idea, a very revealing post. It's the same in Italy, Italians are the most prejudice people against other Italians that you will ever find in one nation.

The southern Italians are "ignorant dirt farmers", the northern are "stuck up, rich Germans" etc. And the ones in central Italy, well we just keep to ourselves, and judge them all. lol

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A Cynic in Wonderland — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 11:31:00 -0000

aiaiyoh rama!! a cultural identity crisis..why does that sound familiar?

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manuscrypts — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 16:29:00 -0000

nothing wrong with the dream.. however reality bytes :)

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nish — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 18:18:00 -0000

do you have boyfriends? ha. that killed me.

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seriously_frivolous — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 08:14:00 -0000

Upon reading this discussion about a tamilian and his idiosyncrasies, I am tempted to mention about this sign board I read while driving on NH enroute to Bangalore. It read...
"Long Live Classical Tamil" :)