Diversity, thy name is India.
"Your lunch is not very different from what we eat!!"
Its funny, and actually amazing for I do not know of any other country where the food habits are so varied. India, I was taught, is a land of unity in diversity. The first thing or perhaps one of the first things that an Indian would ask another fellow Indian in the very first meeting is, "So where are you from?"
What is really interesting is that a person can be easily pinned to a state based on his language/dialect/lunch box, perhaps even looks. A name will almost always give away the state of a person.
"Ah Neil Armstrong. He must be from ....errrr.... Alabama? Arkansas? I dunno...."
Meet an Indian now.
"Mr. Krishnan. You must be from Tamil Nadu."
"Dr. Reddy. You must be from Andhra Pradesh."
"Patel Bhai, which town are you from in Gujarat?"
"Oye Singh Saab, where in Punjab?"
Yesterday while taking lunch, my project manager saw the contents of the lunch box and she said "Your lunch is not very different from what we eat!!"
Well indeed she was surprised. Because in India, you can tell the state of a man from the food he eats.
This is an amazing country. It really is.
Its funny, and actually amazing for I do not know of any other country where the food habits are so varied. India, I was taught, is a land of unity in diversity. The first thing or perhaps one of the first things that an Indian would ask another fellow Indian in the very first meeting is, "So where are you from?"
What is really interesting is that a person can be easily pinned to a state based on his language/dialect/lunch box, perhaps even looks. A name will almost always give away the state of a person.
"Ah Neil Armstrong. He must be from ....errrr.... Alabama? Arkansas? I dunno...."
Meet an Indian now.
"Mr. Krishnan. You must be from Tamil Nadu."
"Dr. Reddy. You must be from Andhra Pradesh."
"Patel Bhai, which town are you from in Gujarat?"
"Oye Singh Saab, where in Punjab?"
Yesterday while taking lunch, my project manager saw the contents of the lunch box and she said "Your lunch is not very different from what we eat!!"
Well indeed she was surprised. Because in India, you can tell the state of a man from the food he eats.
This is an amazing country. It really is.
posted by F-ftOS at 7:47 PM
16 Comments:
what about the name purgas? where is that from?
Never heard it earlier. But the closest I can match it to would be Punjabi/Sindhi. At any rate not a south Indian name.
my boyfriend's name. he doesnt really know where he's from. his mum is punjabi, but from malaysia, his dad Hindu from mauritius. they think they may be from calcutta
Isnt it fascinating to discover the roots. I am always fascinated by who my ancestors were in 1500 A.D, why even B.C. But then those are the answers one almost never gets.
i have spanish ancestry, and english, and god knows what else. it would be nice to know!
The interest in Arts? From the spanish side?
Would you believe...only today I was saying to my mother how it intrigues me that we're related to people 1000 years ago.
My maternal grandpa's family - from Goa.
My father's ancestors are from somewhere in India.
And my maternal grandmother's grandfather - from Arabia.
Can I still call myself East Indian? I hope so.
We must all be related.
Yep.. incredible stuff..... Atleast computers and the internet has given us the chance to make sure our descendants.... 500 years from now..... 1000 years from now... can know about us, if they want to.
dunno where the arts comes from. not dad, he's a doctor. not mum, she's a housewife
from me!
Yes, Anoop, India is a truly amazing country. I went to a fair here a few weeks ago, held by a group of folks from India. It boggled my mind that even mundane objects, even a pen, can be decorated, colourful.
And Piu, your blogging about art inspires me! The art must be flowing from some ancestral gene.
Anoop while in New York this week, I was blessed to meet a man from India who designs ink pens for some very famous people. He owns a lil shop in downtowan Manhattan and was very proud of his heritage. We spoke at length and he was very open about how hard he worked to get where he was....I love diversity and learning all I can about other cultures. I'm surrounded by some many different ethnic groups now, and what's cool is I didn't even have to leave the country to do it....but one day I will. Indian people seem to be very peaceful and aware of their surroundings.
GG, few Indian states have excelled themselves in the form of art on wood and clothes. You should check out Rajasthani stuff and Kashmiri stuff.
Icy, I would disagree with that. Indians are anything but at peace with themselves. I know I can not really generalise such a thing but unfortunately, Indians have quite a few traits that they can do very well without.
Icy, don't get fooled...Indians are just like everybody else! Humans are humans are humans.
Right Anoop?
Right?
Yes GG. Very true. Humans everywhere display some terrible qualities. And with in safe limits of generalisation, we can associate a few with the citizens of a country.
Indians --- Terrible civic sense. Absolutely no sense of hygiene.
no Traffic sense.
Big hypocrites when it comes to God/religion, treating women with respect and respecting a human being.
Americans --- Very ignorant of the world affairs. (GG would contest that so loudly ;) ). And this really is the cause of their growing isolation in the world.
As an American who only recently became interested in world affairs, I can say this can be very true. It was only a few short years ago when I began writing that it occurred to me, that the world was bigger than the street I lived on. As a black woman, I see a lot of this in my community. People are busy trying to make it, not really taking the time to see what's really going on in the world. (There must be balance)
Those Indian cab drivers in New York. Lawd have mercy, I thought I was gonna have a heart attack one night.
Precisely Icy... and There is a whole lot of psychology that can go into explaining why they are/were like that.
I always tell my friends that when People or such mags, comes out with "Worlds most beautiful women" they have no idea how many pretty faces from the east they have ignored just because they never knew about it.
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