Caste, Technology and Religious Conversions in India

harimau,

too much caffeine lately or just a fresh pair of energizer batteries?

go look at water.

Ref scout #: 85

[too much caffeine lately or just a fresh pair of energizer batteries?]

Just energized by the lack of intellectual honesty amongst certain Indians.

[go look at water.]

I have been looking at it for a couple of days.... the solidified form of it. You won`t believe it but I just fought my way out of Buffalo, NY.

Ref Zafar al-Talib #: 87

I said [A South Indian politician once said that the only two major pieces of literature in Hindi were the Ramayana by Tulsidas and the All-India Railway Timetable and Guide. So let us not confuse the two!.....]

You replied [Must have been a Brahmin....]

Bingo! Only they have a wit sardonic enough to make such statements.

This one was by Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari, the first Governor-General of independent India.

Reportedly another is supposed to have said that Gandhi`s dearest wish would be to die by an assassin`s bullet... some years before the fact.

Ref 12-head-Shah #: 88

[Of course i know Arabic some which they dont know b/c i went to madrssah also .]

Listen, if your madrassah education was anything like your medical degree from Magadh University, I wouldn`t brag about it.

anarayan,

i do believe in the freudian dictum that ``one who threw an abuse at the other instead of a stone is the father of civilisation``.

malayalam is relatively poor in abuses compared to tamil, and as a corollary I accept that tamil is more `cultured`` than malayalam.

An extreme example is thai, it has only one abuse, and the violence in the society is unbelievable. It is accepted for the supervisor to be shot for illtreating a subordinate, a little like the honour killing in pakistan. You are likely to know only a few seconds before death that a thai was mad at you. Well i survived for nearly a decade.

The specific fish frying abuse i havnt heard and it is quite unlikely to be a kerala abuse because there is no equivalen of gandoo, gand marna type of usages in kerala. may be because of the long association with the muslims, homosexuality among men is accepted, and as such might have lost the abuse connotations.

regards

Jay

Ref Prem #53:

Let us see what Gail Omvedt actually said:

[But there are divisions among the new {Dalit} radicals, both at the personal level and at the levels of class and profession, apart from the traditional levels of caste. There are the traditional antagonisms of Mahars versus Mangs in Maharashtra, Madigas versus Malas in Andhra, Chuhras versus Chamars in Uttar Pradesh, Paraiyas versus Pallars in Tamil Nadu and this continues in new names and forms.]

Soy Sauce (why Chinese soy sauce, why not the native kari-kuzhambu as your handle?), in your beloved Tamil Nadu, it is Paraiyas versus Pallars.... both castes are Untouchables.... what are they fighting for.... probably for crumbs left over after the Mudaliars and Chettiars have grabbed all the opportunities supposedly given to the Scheduled Castes and Tribes.

Let me tell you a little bit more about all these idiots who cry themselves hoarse over how Tamil as a language is discriminated against and how Tamilians are at the bottom of the heap. Let us take the Nattukkottai Nagarathars, Chettiars by caste. They consider themselves to be descendants of North Indian immigrants (specifically, the Seths). And marry among themselves so that they can keep their wealth ill-gotten by charging DAILY interest rate of 2.5%. And the people who paid these atrocious interest rates? The landless laborer of Tamil Nadu who borrowed money for weddings, etc. Where were the Muslims with prohibitions of interest? I would gladly hand over these Chettiars to them to behead.

These Chettiars and immigrant Reddys and Naidus (Telugu-speaking) and Naickars (from Karnataka) name their kids Tamil Mani (Tamil Jewel), Tamil Arasan (Tamil King), etc., so as to seem to be native Tamilians while continuing to speak their mother-tongues in the home environment. At the rate the various combinations of nouns with the prefix Tamil is being used up by these guys, the native Tamilians will be left with just one possible name: Tamil A$$hole. Which will suit them just fine because that is what they have shown themselves to be. You of course can have the other unique name of Tamil Thayoli.

What a bunch of pathetic losers!

Gail also has this to say [In some regions, the hatred is not between Dalits and Brahmins, but between Dalits and OBCs.]

Not just in some regions, in almost every region.

Ref 12-head-Shah #: 93

[Thats right you god knows who(brahmin,christian,dalit,wannabe brahmin shudra..who knows)most of your brahmins ,i have out witted,outperformed & competed out from Pondicherry to Pillani.]

I breathlessly await the day your name is announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine.

By any chance, if you are in Michigan, do you think you can join the Headshrinker to form Quacky & Wacky PC?

unkaljay:

``A mechanical net nanny award to punch anNy when she uses, ji, unkal etc``

i love you very much also