Comments on: Introducing DesiFilter: for all your Stalking Needs!

By: Chitra

Chitra — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 05:43:47 +0000

Anna, Just wanted to add my Jai Him for Anirvan–he’s been my webmaster for many years and a great supporter from early days of the work we did at Maitri helping domestic violence survivors. Coincidentally, I wrote about him in my blog on March 4 http://www.chitradivakaruni.com/blog/2009/03/takes-a-village.html.

By: Taz

Taz — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:22:31 +0000

Or “Ickitt” for that matter…

By: Ennis

Ennis — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:42:22 +0000

Ah yes, but does it include Slade as a desi name?

By: Priya

Priya — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:15:54 +0000

Interesting tool...great

a list of about 26,000 common South Asian names

Considering the innumerable baby name sites... desi pops & moms who are scratching heads for naming their kids may be rolling their eyes. Can the meaning of the desi names retrieved become desifilter version 2.0 ?

By: Taz

Taz — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:42:26 +0000

I am drooling.

(in my mind I'm thinking back to when I did voter outreach for SAAVY, I'd have to go through name lists one by one to filter desi names out for phone banking and thinking how much easier it would have been to have this list)

By: Rustic Sepia

Rustic Sepia — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:23:52 +0000

Definitely very interestng Idea. I catch myself stalking out desi sounding names on the web a lot of times.

Feedback: In desifilter\’s Example2, I think it missed \”S R Nathan\” president of Singapore – Indian Tamil origins – Sellapan Ramanathan – surely a desi sounding name.

again…cool.

By: khoofia

khoofia — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:44:15 +0000

It’ll likely also not catch Stalin Titty. but yea. coole idea. LOL LOL one one 1

By: Putt Chamaran De

Putt Chamaran De — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:05:58 +0000

I tried putting a few indian names in the filter and it did not catch ‘asdasdasf vijay’

By: V.V. Ganeshananthan

V.V. Ganeshananthan — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:05:41 +0000

I too was dee-lighted by this tip! Anirvan, awesome. Anna, A N N A tastic of you to blog it so fast.

By: portmanteau

portmanteau — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:51:16 +0000

Thatâ€™s why I built DesiFilter, a new web tool to help community journalists and obsessive Desi-angle stalkers:

But can it tell me if my crush is Manglik?