Damn.

yeah, seriously. I don’t roll like Mallaika Sherawat or anything, but it’s quite the on-going issue that I (gasp!) perform on stage and it’s not bharatanatyam…

It’s a double standard– it’s ok to beat off to Aishwariya Rai (or whomever), but aunties/uncles don’t want an Aishwariya in their own family, seems to be my experience.

and poking fun at some of the bizarro burn-the-daughter-in-law-whore mentalities that i’ve spied slipping into the waters around here on occasion. one time i did this some idiots even started agreeing with me!

But the half brown thing still cuts a little close to the bone!

no prob man, i apologize if offense was taken. i have stated multiple times over at my own blog that i think browns should intermarry with other groups and disappear. this is self-interested of course, i don’t want my own children to feel like they are peculiar

You can imagine the kind of hassle they would face from relatives or “the broader public” in general, at least with regards to the more conservative “middle class” — unless their lifestyles were so rarified that they had relatively little contact with the mainstream population. Although from what I can tell, your average Indian back there may be more used to being exposed to this kind of thing via the recent liberalisation evident in some music videos and Bollywood films, such as Mallika Sherawat and her genre.

(Having said that, Mallika has apparently been suffering from sexual harassment by strangers because of how she’s depicted in her films).

Just a thought. Kudos to them for having the guts to do this in a still-relatively-conservative culture, anyway.

Something tells me you guys are pulling my leg….

Such painful things I do for our readers…

seen my website?

She’s the diaspora’s answer to Heidi Fleiss.

Can’t get much more non-traditional than that.