Comments on: The Family Gold: An open letter to South Asian parents

By: Diamond Rings - Engagement Rings

Diamond Rings - Engagement Rings — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:56:32 +0000

Moms are always such type, ultra sensitive… Lord has made them with special kind of material. Thats why Moms have highest place among all relations…

By: PS

PS — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:30:10 +0000

With the price of gold going up, and with people familiar with Desis hoarding wealth in their home, these burglaries most likely are being committed by fellow opportunistic Desis. This is nothing new.

lol, well at least some of the robbers aren’t desi robbing desis – looks like we’ve got some opportunitistic folks from other races, except unlike the opportunism you see among the overwhelming statistics of Indians in this country, it doesn’t come from high education performance and high socioeconomic indicators, it comes from greed, theft, and laziness.

http://www.fairfaxtimes.com/cms/story.php?id=592

My take is that greed, theft, laziness and stupidity (a negative form of opportunism) has nothing to do with ethnicity and more to do with indiv experiences .

By: Gustavo

Gustavo — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:03:17 +0000

The attachment assigned to material wealth will only lead to suffering.

This is the premise of Buddhism, which was a break from the Vedic tradition.

I may be a Muslim, but I find many guiding principles encoded in Buddhism, a religion where the question of God and the existence of God is not important.

With the price of gold going up, and with people familiar with Desis hoarding wealth in their home, these burglaries most likely are being committed by fellow opportunistic Desis. This is nothing new.

By: shoba

shoba — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:50:41 +0000

Hey Abhi…… very thoughtful of you to share this out, great article!!! Honestly one doesnt need one more thing in life to stress over. One has to play safe and look after their possesions in the right manner (lots of ideas above)but you know what??? If it has to go it has to go, like everything else, whether stolen, lost or sold… nothing is permanent!!! I take it as a karmic debt been paid off….

By: snark

snark — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:23:02 +0000

In colonial times, the British refused to let women inherit land or houses. ( Eg Jhansi Rani’s kingdom was taken away by force after her husband died.) Dowry, especially gold and money became important, as woman’s only protection and often to hold family land when land taxation was exhorbitant and unrelated to income. You do not hear of dowry deaths before colonial times. Traditional streedhan, standard practice all over Bharat, let a woman own anything and it was hers to gift to whoever she chose. Also taking the man’s name and becoming a part of the husband’s property was demanded by Brit law as per Europe.

By: bookworm

bookworm — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:49:48 +0000

excellent post! it’s important to keep track of the gold jewelry that is in our families. the robbers looted one of our family friends’ homes and it was traumatizing for them because not only of the monetary value but the sentimental value as well.

By: Saheli

Saheli — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:00:26 +0000

Hmm. I’m catching up on the Mutiny. I too have a sinking feeling my mom has already read this or will read it soon and then I will spend several days with a camera documenting everything. Abhi, I’m with Yo Dad. What have you wrought???

By: boston_ashraf

boston_ashraf — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:10:04 +0000

“Got my mind on my desi gold, and my desi gold on my mind.”

By: patm

patm — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:06:12 +0000

I had always understood "curry" as referring to the liquid part of a dish otherwise referred to as "gravy." A "curry" dish would be a dish that is served swimming in its stew.

This is my understandingt, too. And I've always seen and heard the word in India as well so obviously it's not a case of it not being "authentic".

By: Anon

Anon — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:24:44 +0000

I guess thinking outside the box ain't so special, Anon.

Look, Im not defending robbery here but if I was a thief I I'd want to strategize a little bit. Whats wrong with using the old noggin? Good for them, and poo on you for stashing your gold next to your tighty-whities. At least get a damn safe...