telugu-kansan in insular california

confuzzled dude wrote:I think critics of Nithin are being too harsh. What are the odds of him deciphering the word deewAli in a first go without any surprises as deepAwaLi; none. His family probably didn't have any interaction with NIs. I'm not surprised that he found namaskar a bit odd, like I said before a Telugu raised in konaseema will find that usage a bit odd as well

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:

Propagandhi711 wrote:

nevada wrote:

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:

another synoposis: he has highly individualistic parents who asked him to ignore the crowd and find the truth.

I don't see truth in his denial of any awareness of certain things commonly known to Indians in the US. Or, maybe I am being unfair - he probably lived under a rock after-all.

nothing in kansas except steers, queers and rocks

and sri srinivasan.

Isn't there another girl who helped co-found Yahoo.. another Tambrahmi woman...would not be surprised if she is related to Sri Sri.

confuzzled dude wrote:It is just me or real that only BJP supporters are critical or annoyed with Nithin's view point

confuzzled dude wrote:It is just me or real that only BJP supporters are critical or annoyed with Nithin's view point

Propagandhi711 wrote:

confuzzled dude wrote:I think critics of Nithin are being too harsh. What are the odds of him deciphering the word deewAli in a first go without any surprises as deepAwaLi; none. His family probably didn't have any interaction with NIs. I'm not surprised that he found namaskar a bit odd, like I said before a Telugu raised in konaseema will find that usage a bit odd as well

yeah. some guy in konaseema that cant read a newspaper. not a university edumacated "southeast asian" that travelled to 40 countries

Propagandhi711 wrote:

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:

Propagandhi711 wrote:

nevada wrote:

I don't see truth in his denial of any awareness of certain things commonly known to Indians in the US. Or, maybe I am being unfair - he probably lived under a rock after-all.

nothing in kansas except steers, queers and rocks

and sri srinivasan.

Isn't there another girl who helped co-found Yahoo.. another Tambrahmi woman...would not be surprised if she is related to Sri Sri.

why are you two చంకలు గుడ్డు కోవటం over this northindian abcd fool whose claim to fame is representing jeff skilling?

Propagandhi711 wrote:

confuzzled dude wrote:I think critics of Nithin are being too harsh. What are the odds of him deciphering the word deewAli in a first go without any surprises as deepAwaLi; none. His family probably didn't have any interaction with NIs. I'm not surprised that he found namaskar a bit odd, like I said before a Telugu raised in konaseema will find that usage a bit odd as well

yeah. some guy in konaseema that cant read a newspaper. not a university edumacated "southeast asian" that travelled to 40 countries

bw wrote:

confuzzled dude wrote:It is just me or real that only BJP supporters are critical or annoyed with Nithin's view point

it is just you. i don't find modi ji good looking and his sartorial taste is weird, imo.

nithin guy blinks at "diwali" and later says this:

One was for Diwali, and the other two bewildered me. Garba? Bhangra? I thought I knew my culture well; after all, I could speak Telugu and knew how to cook some Andhra dishes. But what was this? I turned to the girl sitting next to me.

why would he spell it diwali? is diwali called something else in telugu? i haven't read all his posts but it seems like he has just trying to create a certain image for himself and is using all the cliched examples. he has a point that outside india, north indian culture and north indian food and bollywood are largely identified as "indian". i agree with him and often do make it a point to correct people of this notion. at the same time, why act as if he has never heard of those things? he hasn't heard of daal? that would imply that he has never been to a typical NI restaurant in the US in all his years of stay there. quite bizarre unless he was fed perugu annam and pappu whatever at home all his life.  he could have made his point in a sensible way instead of feigning ignorance.

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:

Propagandhi711 wrote:

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:

Propagandhi711 wrote:

nothing in kansas except steers, queers and rocks

and sri srinivasan.

Isn't there another girl who helped co-found Yahoo.. another Tambrahmi woman...would not be surprised if she is related to Sri Sri.

why are you two చంకలు గుడ్డు కోవటం over this northindian abcd fool whose claim to fame is representing jeff skilling?

1. he may have been born in Sardarji Land, but he has 100% Tambrahmi blood...

2. He is not ABCD (you forgot its expansion)

Bonus: This guy was the point guard at high school with Danny Manning as center. Manning paid very high tribute to this guy for their school's state championship.

Propagandhi711 wrote:

confuzzled dude wrote:It is just me or real that only BJP supporters are critical or annoyed with Nithin's view point

well you do suffer from paccha kaamerlu (seeing saffron and yellow in everything)

confuzzled dude wrote:

I'm sure he is aware of naan/daal but I'm willing to cut him some slack

Propagandhi711 wrote:

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:

Propagandhi711 wrote:

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:

and sri srinivasan.

Isn't there another girl who helped co-found Yahoo.. another Tambrahmi woman...would not be surprised if she is related to Sri Sri.

why are you two చంకలు గుడ్డు కోవటం over this northindian abcd fool whose claim to fame is representing jeff skilling?

1. he may have been born in Sardarji Land, but he has 100% Tambrahmi blood...

2. He is not ABCD (you forgot its expansion)

Bonus: This guy was the point guard at high school with Danny Manning as center. Manning paid very high tribute to this guy for their school's state championship.

oh in that case, continue with the cankalu guddukone exercise celebrating tambrahmi supremacy

arent you like an outsider basking in reflected glory tho?

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:

Propagandhi711 wrote:

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:

Propagandhi711 wrote:[
xlation: I am ready to forgive and understand your lies and go with someone's central thesis as long as it fits with my own prejudices. 

as i said, i have way more sympathy for young people trying to navigate their way in the world than i have for old farts close to me in age who should know better.

for a scientist, you are remarkably forgiving of things that dont add up in his story and accepting of his final conclusion. for some of us tho, the whole story rings false and made up to justify why he stayed away from his indian roots and was/is hanging around asians. nothing wrong with that, ppl are free to hang around with who they like but making up tall tales of oppression and alienation by the oppressive majority will elicit derison from the rest that dont share certain prejudices that a few old farts seem to belabor under.

i don't see what your problem is.  i can identify with his irritation at others making certain assumptions about his cultural antecedents. this is no different from what you yourself said somewhere else in this thread. i am also not sure where you are reading this narrative on "oppression" and "alienation".  are you absolutely sure you are not reflecting some of your own insecurities and feelings onto what he actually wrote?

Kayalvizhi wrote:

confuzzled dude wrote:

I'm sure he is aware of naan/daal but I'm willing to cut him some slack

Why are  you sure?
I know what daal is from this forum. What is naan?

bw wrote:

Kayalvizhi wrote:

confuzzled dude wrote:

I'm sure he is aware of naan/daal but I'm willing to cut him some slack

Why are  you sure?
I know what daal is from this forum. What is naan?

exactly - what am naan? who am naan? deep existential questions from you, KV!

indophile wrote:

bw wrote:

Kayalvizhi wrote:

confuzzled dude wrote:

I'm sure he is aware of naan/daal but I'm willing to cut him some slack

Why are  you sure?
I know what daal is from this forum. What is naan?

exactly - what am naan? who am naan? deep existential questions from you, KV!

Reminds me of a Station Master of a small railway station in British India. The British officer asks,

"Who is the station master?"
"Sir, I is the station master."

"Oh! Are you the station master?"
"Yes sir, I are the station master"

Then, in order to get the right answer out of the station master, the British guy asks -
"Am you the station master?"
"Yes sir, I am the station master."

swapna wrote:

indophile wrote:

bw wrote:

Kayalvizhi wrote:

confuzzled dude wrote:

Why are  you sure?
I know what daal is from this forum. What is naan?

exactly - what am naan? who am naan? deep existential questions from you, KV!

Reminds me of a Station Master of a small railway station in British India. The British officer asks,

"Who is the station master?"
"Sir, I is the station master."

"Oh! Are you the station master?"
"Yes sir, I are the station master"

Then, in order to get the right answer out of the station master, the British guy asks -
"Am you the station master?"
"Yes sir, I am the station master."

is there a pun here?

Propagandhi711 wrote:

well you do suffer from paccha kaamerlu (seeing saffron and yellow in everything)

smArtha wrote:

Propagandhi711 wrote:

well you do suffer from paccha kaamerlu (seeing saffron and yellow in everything)

LOL@paccha kaamerlu

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:

smArtha wrote:

Propagandhi711 wrote:

well you do suffer from paccha kaamerlu (seeing saffron and yellow in everything)

LOL@paccha kaamerlu

does that mean jaundice? in tamil it is manjaL (often corrupted to manja) kAmAlai. i assume paccha means green? manjaL is yellow.

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:

smArtha wrote:

Propagandhi711 wrote:

well you do suffer from paccha kaamerlu (seeing saffron and yellow in everything)

LOL@paccha kaamerlu

does that mean jaundice? in tamil it is manjaL (often corrupted to manja) kAmAlai. i assume paccha means green? manjaL is yellow.

smArtha wrote:

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:

smArtha wrote:

Propagandhi711 wrote:

well you do suffer from paccha kaamerlu (seeing saffron and yellow in everything)

LOL@paccha kaamerlu

does that mean jaundice? in tamil it is manjaL (often corrupted to manja) kAmAlai. i assume paccha means green? manjaL is yellow.

Yes it is jaundice. 

there are a few qualified pacchas in telugu

pasidi paccha => Golden Yellow
pasupu paccha => Turmeric Yellow
aaku paccha => Leafy Green
chilaka paccha => Parrot Green
mAmidi paccha => Mango Yellow (ripe mango implied here)

Paccha is also the name for Emerald and so an unqualified 'paccha' should generally imply Emerald Green. But the qualifier sometime is implied from the context as in kAmerlu (jaundice) here. So in the above usage it is Yellow.