Comments on: We vish you a Merry Vishu and a Happy New Year! http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2010/04/14/we_vish_you_a_m/ 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: triliana http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2010/04/14/we_vish_you_a_m/comment-page-1/#comment-270968 triliana Wed, 28 Apr 2010 03:27:08 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=6138#comment-270968 <p>I have followed this blog since Day One, and it is obvious to me that all the writers here at Sepia Mutiny are the sort who research their topics and write <em>thoughtfully</em> about whatever subject crosses their desk. There is no reason that anyone should have to limit themselves to writing about their own religion.</p> <p>This is a beautiful piece, where we get to see Anna's thought process and see her learning new things. What a humble thing to post! It's not a crow of "look at me, here's everything I know" -- it is "I do not know. Enlighten me."</p> <p>And those who choose to trample on someone in such a moment of vulnerability are only showing their own insecurity.</p> I have followed this blog since Day One, and it is obvious to me that all the writers here at Sepia Mutiny are the sort who research their topics and write thoughtfully about whatever subject crosses their desk. There is no reason that anyone should have to limit themselves to writing about their own religion.

This is a beautiful piece, where we get to see Anna’s thought process and see her learning new things. What a humble thing to post! It’s not a crow of “look at me, here’s everything I know” — it is “I do not know. Enlighten me.”

And those who choose to trample on someone in such a moment of vulnerability are only showing their own insecurity.

]]> By: Anon. http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2010/04/14/we_vish_you_a_m/comment-page-1/#comment-270866 Anon. Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:48:13 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=6138#comment-270866 <blockquote> "I looooove eating pachadi, especially if it’s Paavakka-based. With tortilla chips. DON’T JUDGE ME." Like WOW! How cool! You must be the only person in the world who eats pachadi with something so un-Indian has tortilla chips! What a special snowflake! Perhaps Christians would do better not to comment on Hindu holidays and leave the Hindu holidays to those of us who celebrate them. Even if we may NOT be Desi. But is it only OK for someone to be of a non-indigenous religion if they are Desi? So that way Desis can be Christians but non-Desis cannot be Hindus?</blockquote> <p>My personal experience with non-desi hindus is that they dont really know much about the religion and what they know they seem to digest in a very formulaic and western way. You seem to have a very large chip on your shoulder which intrigues me particularly since the most devout hindus I know are the ones with the least amount of religious paranoia. Furthermore - if you have an issue with non-hindu desis "commenting" on hindu holidays then perhaps you as a non-desi should also not feel so entititled to be commenting on desi matters just the same. Or should desis just feel honored by your presence? Food for thought.</p> “I looooove eating pachadi, especially if it’s Paavakka-based. With tortilla chips. DON’T JUDGE ME.” Like WOW! How cool! You must be the only person in the world who eats pachadi with something so un-Indian has tortilla chips! What a special snowflake! Perhaps Christians would do better not to comment on Hindu holidays and leave the Hindu holidays to those of us who celebrate them. Even if we may NOT be Desi. But is it only OK for someone to be of a non-indigenous religion if they are Desi? So that way Desis can be Christians but non-Desis cannot be Hindus?

My personal experience with non-desi hindus is that they dont really know much about the religion and what they know they seem to digest in a very formulaic and western way. You seem to have a very large chip on your shoulder which intrigues me particularly since the most devout hindus I know are the ones with the least amount of religious paranoia. Furthermore – if you have an issue with non-hindu desis “commenting” on hindu holidays then perhaps you as a non-desi should also not feel so entititled to be commenting on desi matters just the same. Or should desis just feel honored by your presence? Food for thought.

]]> By: Sooraj http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2010/04/14/we_vish_you_a_m/comment-page-1/#comment-270801 Sooraj Fri, 23 Apr 2010 05:17:59 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=6138#comment-270801 <p>Pardesi Gori or whatever else you are calling yourself these days,</p> <p>Let me see if I can clear the water that seems so muddy to you. People of Kerala view Vishu as a festival of all Malayalees (it is merely the first day of the year according to our calendar for crying out loud). So it is a festival celebrated by a particular culture, not that of a religion. Thus some one who is "Pardesi" was, is and will be an outsider by definition, kapeesh?</p> <p>What if a group of Indians in India started celebrating Thanksgiving? Wouldn't that be a mockable spectacle?</p> Pardesi Gori or whatever else you are calling yourself these days,

Let me see if I can clear the water that seems so muddy to you. People of Kerala view Vishu as a festival of all Malayalees (it is merely the first day of the year according to our calendar for crying out loud). So it is a festival celebrated by a particular culture, not that of a religion. Thus some one who is “Pardesi” was, is and will be an outsider by definition, kapeesh?

What if a group of Indians in India started celebrating Thanksgiving? Wouldn’t that be a mockable spectacle?

]]> By: Purani Pardesi Dost http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2010/04/14/we_vish_you_a_m/comment-page-1/#comment-270800 Purani Pardesi Dost Fri, 23 Apr 2010 05:00:41 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=6138#comment-270800 <p>"I looooove eating pachadi, especially if it’s Paavakka-based. With tortilla chips. DON’T JUDGE ME."</p> <p>Like WOW! How cool! You must be the only person in the world who eats pachadi with something so un-Indian has tortilla chips! What a special snowflake!</p> <p>Perhaps Christians would do better not to comment on Hindu holidays and leave the Hindu holidays to those of us who celebrate them. Even if we may NOT be Desi.</p> <p>But is it only OK for someone to be of a non-indigenous religion if they are Desi? So that way Desis can be Christians but non-Desis cannot be Hindus?</p> “I looooove eating pachadi, especially if it’s Paavakka-based. With tortilla chips. DON’T JUDGE ME.”

Like WOW! How cool! You must be the only person in the world who eats pachadi with something so un-Indian has tortilla chips! What a special snowflake!

Perhaps Christians would do better not to comment on Hindu holidays and leave the Hindu holidays to those of us who celebrate them. Even if we may NOT be Desi.

But is it only OK for someone to be of a non-indigenous religion if they are Desi? So that way Desis can be Christians but non-Desis cannot be Hindus?

]]> By: lifelong http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2010/04/14/we_vish_you_a_m/comment-page-1/#comment-270770 lifelong Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:59:58 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=6138#comment-270770 <p>The Vishukanni seems like such a wonderful tradition and easily implementable. Though I nor any of my family is from Kerala or Tamilnadu, I think we will adopt this tradition. I can't wait to see the excitement on my kids faces when I bring them to see the Vishukanni.</p> The Vishukanni seems like such a wonderful tradition and easily implementable. Though I nor any of my family is from Kerala or Tamilnadu, I think we will adopt this tradition. I can’t wait to see the excitement on my kids faces when I bring them to see the Vishukanni.

]]> By: Ranj http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2010/04/14/we_vish_you_a_m/comment-page-1/#comment-270744 Ranj Wed, 21 Apr 2010 03:51:29 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=6138#comment-270744 <p>A week late but nevertheless - happy belated Vishu. I have to echo fishEyes' sentiment of the holiday. I would lay awake on Vishu morning with my eyes squeezed shut, giggling and waiting for my mom to come take us to see the Vishukani. When I would open my eyes, it was a visual representation of all of my mother's hopes for us in the new year: health, money, knowledge, and a spiritual connection with good. Seeing my reflection in the mirror as my mother stood behind me and my sister beside me as we sang our morning bhajanas, made me feel full of optimism and hope. I have set up a Vishukani for my husband and I for the past five years and this year with our two boys, it was that much more special. I saw how the vellaku lit up Rishi's face and I realized that it was as much a joy for my mother as it was for me. </blockquote></p> A week late but nevertheless – happy belated Vishu. I have to echo fishEyes’ sentiment of the holiday. I would lay awake on Vishu morning with my eyes squeezed shut, giggling and waiting for my mom to come take us to see the Vishukani. When I would open my eyes, it was a visual representation of all of my mother’s hopes for us in the new year: health, money, knowledge, and a spiritual connection with good. Seeing my reflection in the mirror as my mother stood behind me and my sister beside me as we sang our morning bhajanas, made me feel full of optimism and hope. I have set up a Vishukani for my husband and I for the past five years and this year with our two boys, it was that much more special. I saw how the vellaku lit up Rishi’s face and I realized that it was as much a joy for my mother as it was for me.

]]> By: Vishu http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2010/04/14/we_vish_you_a_m/comment-page-1/#comment-270742 Vishu Tue, 20 Apr 2010 23:11:22 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=6138#comment-270742 <p>Anna, thanks for the informative post - now I know one more meaning to my name (most of my life it was supposed to be a mix of my parent's names) :).</p> Anna, thanks for the informative post – now I know one more meaning to my name (most of my life it was supposed to be a mix of my parent’s names) :) .

]]> By: converted by whitey http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2010/04/14/we_vish_you_a_m/comment-page-1/#comment-270720 converted by whitey Tue, 20 Apr 2010 02:02:35 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=6138#comment-270720 <p>git em idolators, yee doggie.</p> git em idolators, yee doggie.

]]> By: Vinod http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2010/04/14/we_vish_you_a_m/comment-page-1/#comment-270684 Vinod Sat, 17 Apr 2010 19:09:23 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=6138#comment-270684 <p>Anna,my family too is from the south central part of Kerala...Tiruvalla to be precise. My parents excuse of not celebrating the event was because it had a 'Hindu' Lineage and we were Christian.</p> Anna,my family too is from the south central part of Kerala…Tiruvalla to be precise. My parents excuse of not celebrating the event was because it had a ‘Hindu’ Lineage and we were Christian.

]]> By: ronnieboy http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2010/04/14/we_vish_you_a_m/comment-page-1/#comment-270673 ronnieboy Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:48:47 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=6138#comment-270673 <p>Edi mandi, happy Vishu! pavaka pachadi with tortilla chips, gotta try that.</p> Edi mandi, happy Vishu! pavaka pachadi with tortilla chips, gotta try that.

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