I was reading through a blog on a popular news channels website, a review of sivaji by an ARYAN, the article was full of digs at the DRAVIDIAN accent. And not surprisingly, the post had close to 200 comments (Note: The comments are moderated) , most of them very "uncomplimentary".
I am not sure what the author's intentions were when he typed in those "saar"s and "kanstant"s . The DRAVIDIAN readers however, took it as an insult on their kind and came up with well written abuses in fine English. I found the reaction rather funny because this is not new, every other hindi movie has a caricature of a south indian, with an exaggerated accent and for that matter, tamil movies are not far behind either. How many times have we seen the Malayalee being ridiculed, or even the mami with her accent. What is LOLA kutty based on?
Educated people stop with comments on the blog, others take it up from where they leave.
So much for the north-south divide, are the dravidians united? Hell , no. The tamil-kannada war is at its peak, with activists trying to prevent movies being screened (how silly). All this makes me look at INDIA as the US of I, rather than as one country. It is still hard to believe that we have made it together for 60 years now. You want to kick-start a riot in INDIA, not very dificult, look at the options u have:religion,caste,language,race,rivers,...my GOD. I am not sure how logical it was to make one country out of all those differences. But I have no complaints, my short life has already spanned three states whose people dont like each other. I was born in one state , educated in one, making a living in another. I have no one language as my own, I speak one which i dont know to write, I can write one which I cant speak , and use a foriegn language when I have to do both :). I use one at work,another at home, and yet another with friends.
A conservative estimate states that atlease 3/4 of INDIAs population is atleast bilingual, yet we are intolerant. Why cant we take it easy? Somebody found our accent funny, when we speak a foreign language. So.
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Saturday, July 7, 2007
Another weekend, nothing much to do, what do i do.. read blogs or write one on my own.
I am up to date with almost all the blogs I usually read (added about 5 more bloggers to the list).
Now since I am done with all the blogs, and have nothing else to do, am writing one.
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I thought I should list out all the blogs I read and what I like in each one of them.
But I will save it for another post :). For this one, read some more crap.
I live in a city tats great for socialising,particularly for people with my background. Thousands of people in the same age-group,of both gender, with the same backgrounds, and the same(not even similar) JOB!!!!...
To make matters more interesting, the roads are filled with these girls with great bodies (and outfits which leave nothin to the imagination and I donot USUALLY ogle) . I sometimes feel all the good-looking girls in the country congregate here. Good for the eyes..what say?.
All these COLORFUL observations were made as a pillion rider on my way to/from office.
I love the traffic signals on the road to the FORUM , those are my favourite hunting grounds.
Following is a list of things which make me an unsocial:
I have this job with the 40-hour week. Somehow I manage to work (or just be at the office) for atleast 60-65 hrs. Not sure If I am doing more than I should be, but I am sure my managers has no doubts - "lots of scope for improvement" he says :(.
Weekends are for sleeping and reading blogs . Infact there have been weekends when I just go to the blogger homepage and visit blogs as and when they are updated (been that jobless).
Since no time is left,I have a sad social life(even the gurkhas/shopkeepers in our locality donot recognise me). Its been 1 year since i went out, other than to the restaurants.
Thanks to my roommate who works for the same company, I have never even had to walk my way to the bus stop. So it is not entirely my fault :).
These are the sad state of things.
By the way I completed 1 year with my present employer....well the only employer till date......... on July 3rd.
At/On this momentous occassion I would like to thank all bloggers who have made my weekends woth living. A big thanks to all of you.
Just to enlighten you on how I kill time... I took 2 hrs .... "thinking/writing" this post......:) and before that 3hrs reading new posts form real bloggers.
I am up to date with almost all the blogs I usually read (added about 5 more bloggers to the list).
Now since I am done with all the blogs, and have nothing else to do, am writing one.
*********************
I thought I should list out all the blogs I read and what I like in each one of them.
But I will save it for another post :). For this one, read some more crap.
I live in a city tats great for socialising,particularly for people with my background. Thousands of people in the same age-group,of both gender, with the same backgrounds, and the same(not even similar) JOB!!!!...
To make matters more interesting, the roads are filled with these girls with great bodies (and outfits which leave nothin to the imagination and I donot USUALLY ogle) . I sometimes feel all the good-looking girls in the country congregate here. Good for the eyes..what say?.
All these COLORFUL observations were made as a pillion rider on my way to/from office.
I love the traffic signals on the road to the FORUM , those are my favourite hunting grounds.
Following is a list of things which make me an unsocial:
I have this job with the 40-hour week. Somehow I manage to work (or just be at the office) for atleast 60-65 hrs. Not sure If I am doing more than I should be, but I am sure my managers has no doubts - "lots of scope for improvement" he says :(.
Weekends are for sleeping and reading blogs . Infact there have been weekends when I just go to the blogger homepage and visit blogs as and when they are updated (been that jobless).
Since no time is left,I have a sad social life(even the gurkhas/shopkeepers in our locality donot recognise me). Its been 1 year since i went out, other than to the restaurants.
Thanks to my roommate who works for the same company, I have never even had to walk my way to the bus stop. So it is not entirely my fault :).
These are the sad state of things.
By the way I completed 1 year with my present employer....well the only employer till date......... on July 3rd.
At/On this momentous occassion I would like to thank all bloggers who have made my weekends woth living. A big thanks to all of you.
Just to enlighten you on how I kill time... I took 2 hrs .... "thinking/writing" this post......:) and before that 3hrs reading new posts form real bloggers.
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