Comments on: Long overdue http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/12/26/long_overdue_1/ All that flavorful brownness in one savory packet Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:11:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: shantanu http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/12/26/long_overdue_1/comment-page-1/#comment-42812 shantanu Sun, 22 Jan 2006 23:02:29 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2787#comment-42812 <p>i think love is important n ya no peep into history n past leave it for your academic pursuits ..true love dies moment u know too much abt too much..so guyz n gals love black love white n brown n all rise above prejudices n see beyond n above narrow minded alleys..i m for interrracial n also same race ..just love dats it</p> i think love is important n ya no peep into history n past leave it for your academic pursuits ..true love dies moment u know too much abt too much..so guyz n gals love black love white n brown n all rise above prejudices n see beyond n above narrow minded alleys..i m for interrracial n also same race ..just love dats it

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By: Vic http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/12/26/long_overdue_1/comment-page-1/#comment-39918 Vic Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:07:53 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2787#comment-39918 <p>A couple of random musings.</p> <p>Perhaps there is truth to the rue that most cosmopolitan, 'smart', eligible desi bachelors are going for goris. Ever since they are born, desis are subconciously fed the line that gora color is preferable. Perhaps the bachelors want the best for their kids...hence marrying a gori will sort of ensure that their kids will be 'halfway' gora and have all the benefits associated with that.</p> <p>The person who claimed that there is no glass ceiling has not worked in an environment full of midwestern hicks. No matter how hard I try to fit in with these yahooos, I just can't get hyped to go 'hunting' in November and walk around in freezing weather with a beer and a gun in order to develop a buddy bond that's essential to move ahead.</p> <p>Human nature is same everywhere. In India, I heard that Brahmins look out for Brahmins, Thakurs for Thakures etc..., and here its the same. It may not exist to this extent on the coasts, but those who deny are living in fantasyland and don't understand human nature. I am not complaining about it, just explaining that it exists and you have to accept it, shrug it, and work around it....otherwise you will be miserable.</p> A couple of random musings.

Perhaps there is truth to the rue that most cosmopolitan, ‘smart’, eligible desi bachelors are going for goris. Ever since they are born, desis are subconciously fed the line that gora color is preferable. Perhaps the bachelors want the best for their kids…hence marrying a gori will sort of ensure that their kids will be ‘halfway’ gora and have all the benefits associated with that.

The person who claimed that there is no glass ceiling has not worked in an environment full of midwestern hicks. No matter how hard I try to fit in with these yahooos, I just can’t get hyped to go ‘hunting’ in November and walk around in freezing weather with a beer and a gun in order to develop a buddy bond that’s essential to move ahead.

Human nature is same everywhere. In India, I heard that Brahmins look out for Brahmins, Thakurs for Thakures etc…, and here its the same. It may not exist to this extent on the coasts, but those who deny are living in fantasyland and don’t understand human nature. I am not complaining about it, just explaining that it exists and you have to accept it, shrug it, and work around it….otherwise you will be miserable.

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By: dino http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/12/26/long_overdue_1/comment-page-1/#comment-39889 dino Thu, 29 Dec 2005 11:01:19 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2787#comment-39889 <p>I have just finished working on how I can determine a rock's age in just 30 seconds flat. it is going to revolutionize the rock industry. But people do not know me just because I have a big belly and a distasteful moustache ..Sniff . This is not fair. Sniff.</p> I have just finished working on how I can determine a rock’s age in just 30 seconds flat. it is going to revolutionize the rock industry. But people do not know me just because I have a big belly and a distasteful moustache ..Sniff . This is not fair. Sniff.

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By: Lord of the Deadites http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/12/26/long_overdue_1/comment-page-1/#comment-39885 Lord of the Deadites Thu, 29 Dec 2005 07:48:14 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2787#comment-39885 <p>This is amazing.I read this article on the day it was posted here on SM. And..today (29 Dec 2005) ToI has a small vignette on Manga in its Bombay Times supplement!</p> <p>Which proved my doubt...</p> <p>SM is days ahead of the desi MSM......</p> <p>Good Job guyz...sm rox for sure!</p> This is amazing.I read this article on the day it was posted here on SM. And..today (29 Dec 2005) ToI has a small vignette on Manga in its Bombay Times supplement!

Which proved my doubt…

SM is days ahead of the desi MSM……

Good Job guyz…sm rox for sure!

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By: Jai Singh http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/12/26/long_overdue_1/comment-page-1/#comment-39849 Jai Singh Wed, 28 Dec 2005 20:34:32 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2787#comment-39849 <blockquote>Jai Singh: we demand pictures, to further evaluate your conventional or unconventional hotness. make the season more festive by sharing your portfolio!</blockquote> <p>Sorry ladies, I don't want to blow my cover, and in any case (unlike Bongsie) I'm not vain enough to have an online portfolio <em>laughing</em></p> <p>I will, however, say that -- as I've mentioned before -- apparently people who don't know me very well automatically assume that I'm some kind of womaniser with lots of girlfriends all over the place, even if actually I've said or done absolutely nothing concrete to indicate this. Beyond that, I'm afraid you'll just have to carry on using your imagination ;)</p> <p>Anyway, I know what you fast girls with your fast cars and smooth pickup-lines are like -- you just want to have your wicked way with us, "loot" our "izzat", and then once we've been canoodled to within an inch of our lives, we're just kicked out of the bed/car/hotel room/shower cubicle/park bench/telephone booth, and you go and marry a nice homely boy from India who you can take home to Mummy and Papa.</p> Jai Singh: we demand pictures, to further evaluate your conventional or unconventional hotness. make the season more festive by sharing your portfolio!

Sorry ladies, I don’t want to blow my cover, and in any case (unlike Bongsie) I’m not vain enough to have an online portfolio laughing

I will, however, say that — as I’ve mentioned before — apparently people who don’t know me very well automatically assume that I’m some kind of womaniser with lots of girlfriends all over the place, even if actually I’ve said or done absolutely nothing concrete to indicate this. Beyond that, I’m afraid you’ll just have to carry on using your imagination ;)

Anyway, I know what you fast girls with your fast cars and smooth pickup-lines are like — you just want to have your wicked way with us, “loot” our “izzat”, and then once we’ve been canoodled to within an inch of our lives, we’re just kicked out of the bed/car/hotel room/shower cubicle/park bench/telephone booth, and you go and marry a nice homely boy from India who you can take home to Mummy and Papa.

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By: Msichana http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/12/26/long_overdue_1/comment-page-1/#comment-39844 Msichana Wed, 28 Dec 2005 19:13:55 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2787#comment-39844 <blockquote>Msichana- be kind to the half-breeds, please ;)</blockquote> <p>Hey...I am all about the half breeds! I want to be in the United Colors of Benetton ads too!</p> <p>I remember my mom (pure Guju) lamenting of how so and so's son went to the 'west' and brought home a 'dhoiri' (white girl in guj) and how it spoilt chances for other good girls. This just reminded my of her..bless her heart. I think she prays extra every day to make God make her kids marry brown and stay brown.</p> Msichana- be kind to the half-breeds, please ;)

Hey…I am all about the half breeds! I want to be in the United Colors of Benetton ads too!

I remember my mom (pure Guju) lamenting of how so and so’s son went to the ‘west’ and brought home a ‘dhoiri’ (white girl in guj) and how it spoilt chances for other good girls. This just reminded my of her..bless her heart. I think she prays extra every day to make God make her kids marry brown and stay brown.

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By: DesiDancer http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/12/26/long_overdue_1/comment-page-1/#comment-39843 DesiDancer Wed, 28 Dec 2005 19:09:57 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2787#comment-39843 <p>Msichana- be kind to the <a href="http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/002766.html#comment39134">half-breeds</a>, please ;)</p> Msichana- be kind to the half-breeds, please ;)

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By: Bong Breaker http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/12/26/long_overdue_1/comment-page-1/#comment-39842 Bong Breaker Wed, 28 Dec 2005 19:04:08 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2787#comment-39842 <p>DD...that wasn't what I was hinting at, I was going to be far more controversial and say that brown women just don't cut it! ;)</p> <p>Please don't lynch me, I make joke.</p> <p>Seriously, what I meant is that one often hears black women lament that 'the good ones' go for white girls. So I was wondering if the same phenomenon is happening amongst desi 'good ones'.</p> DD…that wasn’t what I was hinting at, I was going to be far more controversial and say that brown women just don’t cut it! ;)

Please don’t lynch me, I make joke.

Seriously, what I meant is that one often hears black women lament that ‘the good ones’ go for white girls. So I was wondering if the same phenomenon is happening amongst desi ‘good ones’.

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By: Msichana http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/12/26/long_overdue_1/comment-page-1/#comment-39840 Msichana Wed, 28 Dec 2005 18:58:51 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2787#comment-39840 <blockquote>Aamir Khan's getting married again too. I only mention this cos someone said 'chocolate box looks'.</blockquote> <p>Yup..except his lady doesn't have the 'conventional' girl chocolate box looks, so they are cool. It's a nice balance.</p> <p>It is kind of painful..to see all these elligible indian men wind up with 'Goris'. Then again, I know a lot of our brown hotties end up with others too. So, it's all fair game eh?</p> Aamir Khan’s getting married again too. I only mention this cos someone said ‘chocolate box looks’.

Yup..except his lady doesn’t have the ‘conventional’ girl chocolate box looks, so they are cool. It’s a nice balance.

It is kind of painful..to see all these elligible indian men wind up with ‘Goris’. Then again, I know a lot of our brown hotties end up with others too. So, it’s all fair game eh?

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By: DesiDancer http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/12/26/long_overdue_1/comment-page-1/#comment-39839 DesiDancer Wed, 28 Dec 2005 18:52:25 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2787#comment-39839 <blockquote>Can someone else read something into that so I don't get beaten up?</blockquote> <p>Are you fishing for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_vigor">Hybrid Vigor</a> comments? I keed, I keed!</p> <blockquote>Some men are born Gupta, others achieve Guptaness and others have Gupta thrust upon them.</blockquote> <p>because how cool is it to be a kid, growing up outside of India, and be able to give reference to your <em>family dynasty</em> in any major encyclopedia. Kids on the playground bowed in awe of the Guptaness.</p> Can someone else read something into that so I don’t get beaten up?

Are you fishing for Hybrid Vigor comments? I keed, I keed!

Some men are born Gupta, others achieve Guptaness and others have Gupta thrust upon them.

because how cool is it to be a kid, growing up outside of India, and be able to give reference to your family dynasty in any major encyclopedia. Kids on the playground bowed in awe of the Guptaness.

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