Comments on: This man made this table

By: linksoflondon

linksoflondon — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:19:23 +0000

good for you!

By: bob

bob — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 23:10:54 +0000

i think you should be appreciative of the fact that someone chose to help your countrymen instead of having this item mass manufactured in china.

the man imaged heads up the group that hand makes these. trust me.

By: Sourav

Sourav — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 01:42:25 +0000

I hate this whole “exotification” thing – as V.S. Naipaul puts it, the idea of holy poverty.

I’ve come across two extreme views on this – on the one hand, there are people who do not think of India as anything more than a poor, third-world country (stuff that would be attributed to a sub-Saharan African country, for example), while on the other hand, there are those who find something very exotic about abject poverty.

By: ss

ss — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 07:05:00 +0000

Buy his tables and put some food on the poor man’s table. He looks starved.

That Rs/- 2 that he received for his craftsmanship will at least buy him 2 paans.

I’m sure he submitted that photo with his furniture pieces… here is me in my loongi! Ridiculous tactic on the part of Overstock.

On a sidenote… be selective on Overstock and SmartBargains. Quality perceived is not always quality received. Howver, you can return for free within 30 days.

By: ikea

ikea — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 23:16:20 +0000

Buy his tables and put some food on the poor man’s table. He looks starved.

By: tamasha

tamasha — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 18:16:59 +0000

Sepia Mutiny is now my go-to source for all types of hilarity:

Maybe the guy comes with the table? I could use another grandpa, or "dada", as us Gujarati's call them. We can hang out, eat pan, play cards, and watch Wheel of Fortune.

I would totally go see this film:

Don't buy it! It's a BLOOD TABLE! Would you buy this table knowing that it cost a Rajasthani grandpa his, um...his...dhoti?

OR his lead?

Plot Outline: Abhi, Siddartha, and syndicate of Sepia Mutineers led by Ennis match wits over the possession of a priceless handcrafted table crafted by, um...Kishu Nana (played by Djimon Hounsou, of course).

By: CinamonRani

CinamonRani — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:32:00 +0000

Hey Abhi, try smartbargains.com they have some nice stuff as well. I would buy the table it’s cute and the dada who made it would rather you have it than some…… (insert racial epithet here) As always support the brown.

By: Umang

Umang — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:23:23 +0000

Does seeing a picture of the man who supposedly made this table make me somehow more inclined to buy it?

Quite simply, yes. It makes it seem more authentically Indian and less mass produced.

By: Vikram

Vikram — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:18:14 +0000

It is our kryptonite

Pelosi's years in CA must have definitely exposed her to the red variation...

By: Kurma

Kurma — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 16:29:17 +0000

At a passing glance one might get the impression that lead is only toxic to CA residents...

It is our kryptonite.