Comments on: Everything is Illuminated

By: subir pandey

subir pandey — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:10:39 +0000

Hi,

As a brahmin male ru faceing guilty , that under ur shirt u do not have janeu (sacred thread) i do not thing so if ur real brahmin u know ur that so there is no guilty conceousness. I do not consider u as VS Naipul, his outstanding novel the house of Mr Biswas or millan of mutiniues now. the only thing common of both of ur case u both are rootless brahmin. thanks if u required janeu i can supply u free of cost from varanasi

By: Shruti

Shruti — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 02:44:46 +0000

Abhi: We are glad to hear you made it back home - safe. When we left Kathmandu they went through Yo Mom's bag with a fine toothed comb at the airport. Once I have had a customs officer at Mumbai airport blatantly asking me to hand over a bottle of Johnny Walker Black label to him in front of everybody without a shame. Obviously I told him to go take a hike. These things are very common in South Asian countries - so I am told. As fot Trip@thi Surname there are about 200 t0 300 families in Gujarat, mostly around Ahmedabad. Kush is right. Commonly Trip@thi's are from UP. It is interesting that first Gujarati Novel was written by a Trip@thi. The famous novel "SARASWATICHANDRA" was written by Govarndhanrav Madhavram Trip@thi. Someone told me that few Trip@this in UP also go by Travadis or Tiwaris. Not that it matters but our "Gotra" is KushKush, who was son of Maharishi Viswamitra. Nuff said. Love....Dad - still in India -

Respek! Yo Dad, you are a rockstar.

...and might I add, Maharishi Viswamitra is a pretty rockstar ancestor to descend from.

Congratulations to your family on the wedding! (Now that you can have grandbabies from kid #2, I guess Abhi is off the hook for a while...)

By: Kush Tandon

Kush Tandon — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 02:43:05 +0000

Johnny Walker, that is a favorite gift @ the airports.

Including Johannesburg, South Africa.

By: Kush Tandon

Kush Tandon — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 02:30:45 +0000

Thank you, Yo Dad for your wisdom.

Hope you enjoy your remaining stay in India.

Johnny Walker, that is a favorite gift @ the airports.

By: Saheli

Saheli — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 02:16:51 +0000

Congratulations Yo Dad!

Maharishi Viswamitra

How appropriate for the astronaut.

(Resists making a joke about Tabouleh.)

By: nimisha

nimisha — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 01:43:50 +0000

That was really grand. I enjoyed it thoroughly. I’ve always wanted to recap my various trips around India but can never do them with the kind of finesse that you possess.

By: Yo Dad

Yo Dad — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 01:06:30 +0000

Abhi: We are glad to hear you made it back home – safe. When we left Kathmandu they went through Yo Mom’s bag with a fine toothed comb at the airport. Once I have had a customs officer at Mumbai airport blatantly asking me to hand over a bottle of Johnny Walker Black label to him in front of everybody without a shame. Obviously I told him to go take a hike. These things are very common in South Asian countries – so I am told. As fot Trip@thi Surname there are about 200 t0 300 families in Gujarat, mostly around Ahmedabad. Kush is right. Commonly Trip@thi’s are from UP. It is interesting that first Gujarati Novel was written by a Trip@thi. The famous novel “SARASWATICHANDRA” was written by Govarndhanrav Madhavram Trip@thi. Someone told me that few Trip@this in UP also go by Travadis or Tiwaris. Not that it matters but our “Gotra” is KushKush, who was son of Maharishi Viswamitra. Nuff said. Love….Dad – still in India -

By: Quizman

Quizman — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:31:18 +0000

Upadhayaya, Acharya, Dixit, Vaidya, Sharma are common in Maharasthra too. But, I haven’t come across Shukla, Trip@thi, Trivedi in Gujarat/Maha/Kar before. Interesting!

By: RC

RC — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 23:00:05 +0000

True, Abhi's family originates from Gujarat, and no doubt goes back to hundreds and hundreds of years. Trip@this, originally, mostly come from UP/ Bihar.

Well, the brahmin last names are same in the entire North India. Trip@thi, Pathak, Shukla, Trivedi, Upadhyay, Acharya, Dixit are examples of Brahmin last names that can be found from Punjab, UP, Bihar, Rajasthan, MP, and Gujarat, Maharashtra (in some cases). So, a Mr. Shukla like a Mr. Trip@thi can be from UP, Gujarat or Rajasthan or MP.

By: Stevie

Stevie — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:28:09 +0000

Remember, the cop even in US of A is not some cosmopolitan dude, like Bono of U2. I like that Bono has become a symbol of cosmopolitanism and open erudition. It makes me giggle, rather than my normal reaction of wanting to poke his eyes out.