Comments on: Somewhere a Goth is like, totally jealous. http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/12/12/somewhere_a_got_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: Demondoll http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/12/12/somewhere_a_got_1/comment-page-2/#comment-183261 Demondoll Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:46:51 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4899#comment-183261 <p>Speaking as a Desi-Goth girl, I have to say that I'm WAY WAY WAY jealous of this cool little eaterie and wish that I could visit it and have a nice warm meal on a cold grave. <em>giggles</em></p> <p>I used to live in India as a child. I remember reading plenty of hindi horror comics which featured ghouls, people being hung on nooses, witches (choolaids) with backwards feet. So I would definitely NOT say that there is no horror literature in India. It does certainly exist. In fact, the first vampire novel I ever read was in hindi. A tv show about "Vikram and the vampire" used to be HUGELY famous in the 80s, as I recall. I wonder if anyone else on this site remembers that show? All of it had a huge effect on me as a child, and I became fascinated by the occult, which actually eventually led me to become a "Goth" in my teen years. India can be quite dark.</p> Speaking as a Desi-Goth girl, I have to say that I’m WAY WAY WAY jealous of this cool little eaterie and wish that I could visit it and have a nice warm meal on a cold grave. giggles

I used to live in India as a child. I remember reading plenty of hindi horror comics which featured ghouls, people being hung on nooses, witches (choolaids) with backwards feet. So I would definitely NOT say that there is no horror literature in India. It does certainly exist. In fact, the first vampire novel I ever read was in hindi. A tv show about “Vikram and the vampire” used to be HUGELY famous in the 80s, as I recall. I wonder if anyone else on this site remembers that show? All of it had a huge effect on me as a child, and I became fascinated by the occult, which actually eventually led me to become a “Goth” in my teen years. India can be quite dark.

]]> By: Rahul http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/12/12/somewhere_a_got_1/comment-page-2/#comment-182726 Rahul Sat, 15 Dec 2007 06:17:17 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4899#comment-182726 <blockquote>Graveyards in India are never scary places,” Alvi said. “We don’t have a nice literature of horror stories so we don’t have much fear of ghosts.”</blockquote> <p>Maybe it is just that we lack imagination? Although that theory is, er, put to rest, at least from reading <a href="http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/004904.html">comments on this other thread</a>. Maybe we have a far greater fear of live Muslims - that seems to be the real thing that inspires shivers.</p> Graveyards in India are never scary places,” Alvi said. “We don’t have a nice literature of horror stories so we don’t have much fear of ghosts.”

Maybe it is just that we lack imagination? Although that theory is, er, put to rest, at least from reading comments on this other thread. Maybe we have a far greater fear of live Muslims – that seems to be the real thing that inspires shivers.

]]> By: Saheli http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/12/12/somewhere_a_got_1/comment-page-2/#comment-182646 Saheli Sat, 15 Dec 2007 00:31:30 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4899#comment-182646 <p><i>“Graveyards in India are never scary places,” Alvi said. “We don’t have a nice literature of horror stories so we don’t have much fear of ghosts.” </i></p> <p>Wow. Bengalis have no lack of ghost stories. My parents used to scare me to pieces with them.</p> “Graveyards in India are never scary places,” Alvi said. “We don’t have a nice literature of horror stories so we don’t have much fear of ghosts.”

Wow. Bengalis have no lack of ghost stories. My parents used to scare me to pieces with them.

]]> By: pingpong http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/12/12/somewhere_a_got_1/comment-page-2/#comment-182294 pingpong Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:06:25 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4899#comment-182294 <blockquote>My parents and cousins definitely have some Spooky Tales of Small-town India they toss out from time to time.</blockquote> <p>Maybe it's not a matter of whether India has a richer or spookier collection of horror, but whether Indians scare easily or not. For instance, the very first horror movie ever shot made Western audiences run out of the movie theater in screaming terror, according to popular accounts. But I'm pretty sure that desi viewers will not be scared of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dgLEDdFddk">the movie</a> at all. More info on the movie, from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Arriv%C3%A9e_d%27un_train_en_gare_de_La_Ciotat#Contemporary_reaction">Wiki</a>.</p> My parents and cousins definitely have some Spooky Tales of Small-town India they toss out from time to time.

Maybe it’s not a matter of whether India has a richer or spookier collection of horror, but whether Indians scare easily or not. For instance, the very first horror movie ever shot made Western audiences run out of the movie theater in screaming terror, according to popular accounts. But I’m pretty sure that desi viewers will not be scared of the movie at all. More info on the movie, from Wiki.

]]> By: Kunjan http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/12/12/somewhere_a_got_1/comment-page-2/#comment-182276 Kunjan Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:45:49 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4899#comment-182276 <p><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=23%C2%B01'39%22N+72%C2%B034'51%22E&ie=UTF8&ll=23.027479,72.581348&spn=0.004552,0.009956&z=17&iwloc=addr&om=1">Location of Lucky on google maps</a></p> <p>Yo Dad: yep its right across Sidi Saiyad Mosque.</p> Location of Lucky on google maps

Yo Dad: yep its right across Sidi Saiyad Mosque.

]]> By: Neal (with no 'e') http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/12/12/somewhere_a_got_1/comment-page-1/#comment-182231 Neal (with no 'e') Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:55:56 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4899#comment-182231 <blockquote>“We don’t have a nice literature of horror stories so we don’t have much fear of ghosts.”</blockquote> <p>Really? What about all the ones that hang around with Shiva? Or the vampires all <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vetala">fallin out of trees</a> and shit?</p> <p>My parents and cousins definitely have some Spooky Tales of Small-town India they toss out from time to time. You're supposed to avoid getting too close to wells or standing under certain trees, if I recall correctly.</p> <p>And I mean... even if you wanna say India doesn't have a nice "literature" of horror stories, what about that giant Bollywood Horror Boom? It's a little old now, but surely it lives on in the hearts and minds of morbid folk everywhere. I just cannot believe that there isn't some Goth infrastructure out there, people.</p> “We don’t have a nice literature of horror stories so we don’t have much fear of ghosts.”

Really? What about all the ones that hang around with Shiva? Or the vampires all fallin out of trees and shit?

My parents and cousins definitely have some Spooky Tales of Small-town India they toss out from time to time. You’re supposed to avoid getting too close to wells or standing under certain trees, if I recall correctly.

And I mean… even if you wanna say India doesn’t have a nice “literature” of horror stories, what about that giant Bollywood Horror Boom? It’s a little old now, but surely it lives on in the hearts and minds of morbid folk everywhere. I just cannot believe that there isn’t some Goth infrastructure out there, people.

]]> By: diyazme http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/12/12/somewhere_a_got_1/comment-page-1/#comment-182217 diyazme Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:34:59 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4899#comment-182217 <p><i>You got a problem with that? Humm?</i></p> <p>Nah, I am a Sachhi Amdavadi too, will be there before you do ;)</p> You got a problem with that? Humm?

Nah, I am a Sachhi Amdavadi too, will be there before you do ;)

]]> By: Yo Dad http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/12/12/somewhere_a_got_1/comment-page-1/#comment-182214 Yo Dad Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:26:10 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4899#comment-182214 <p>Kunjan: I believe it's at the end of the Relief Road at the west end near Lal Darwaja across "Agashy" restaurant. I was at the world famous Sidi Syed's Mosque on Christmas 2005 ( I still have not figured out how to post it here). This place Lucky should be right around the corner. Yes there are many Amdavadi's on SM site. You got a problem with that? Humm? Like late poet Avinash Vyas has said in a song: Sachho Amdavadi - koiee thi na jaay ganjyo. There must be something in the water of River Sabarmati - which late "Mahatma" even recognized, and established his famous Gandhi Ashram on it's banks.</p> Kunjan: I believe it’s at the end of the Relief Road at the west end near Lal Darwaja across “Agashy” restaurant. I was at the world famous Sidi Syed’s Mosque on Christmas 2005 ( I still have not figured out how to post it here). This place Lucky should be right around the corner. Yes there are many Amdavadi’s on SM site. You got a problem with that? Humm? Like late poet Avinash Vyas has said in a song: Sachho Amdavadi – koiee thi na jaay ganjyo. There must be something in the water of River Sabarmati – which late “Mahatma” even recognized, and established his famous Gandhi Ashram on it’s banks.

]]> By: diyazme http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/12/12/somewhere_a_got_1/comment-page-1/#comment-182211 diyazme Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:01:09 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4899#comment-182211 <p>I second Rev.Bayes @35, I realize it was a mistake ANNA :)</p> <p>On a different note, reading all the comments above made me realize there are soo many Amdavadis here on SM! (Yes,the city is Ahmedabad,and we are Amdavadis, peace!)</p> I second Rev.Bayes @35, I realize it was a mistake ANNA :)

On a different note, reading all the comments above made me realize there are soo many Amdavadis here on SM! (Yes,the city is Ahmedabad,and we are Amdavadis, peace!)

]]> By: Ennis http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/12/12/somewhere_a_got_1/comment-page-1/#comment-182206 Ennis Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:30:17 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4899#comment-182206 <p>E tu Shashwati with the new spellings?</p> E tu Shashwati with the new spellings?

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