It seems I am suffering from what is popularly known as writers block. Though I have to admit that the title of writer really is a bit of a delusion of grandeur. I think it’s mostly because I seem to be perpetually sleepy.....................................
Went for a wedding yesterday which I thought I would hate but one tiny vodka sprite later it seems I was the only one still doing the kajrare. The truth is finally out you can take a punjabi to water but you can’t take the punjabi out of me (or something like that anyway).
I do believe that my penchant to grind my hips in public and take almost perverse pleasure in the thumka defines me much more than all my rock and roller pretensions put together.
Nothing in the world is more fun than dancing to hindi music with all the nakhra and ankhon kea ishare thrown in.
At the cost of sounding a bit like a crazy desi eating aam ka achhar on a charpaii in a house stuffed with crystal ware in a forgotten suburb somewhere in the United States i haveto say that there really is something to theory of identifying with ones own language and idiom and such.
Infact lately i seem to have developed an unfamiliar nostalgia for dogri/punjabi (not sure if I am just through and through punjabi or part Kashmiri part Himachali punjabi or if i'm just a plain dilliwallah).
Perhaps I'm turning into a Bengali except Punjabi................................................
14 comments:
Ah...I wish I could identify with my mallu roots. Not speaking malayalam tends to throw a spanner in the works. But I'm glad mallus don't go for nakhra or ankon ke ishare or whatever at their weddings. Wouldn't be able to swing it. Mallu food is about it for me. And the garb, or occasion.
How is it that thou dost speak Bongla? The only phrase I know is the humourously obscene "podhe dhoka bo".
Yohan i think along with the filmi teaching we might haveto consider some training in basic ankhon ke ishare. Consider all those songs that your dad sings the allusions to ankhon hee ankhon mean isharas are numerous. I tell you cannot get by without.
i Agree with you on the mallu food Avial is about the only vegetarian thing that gets to be in my favorite foods list. How odd that we are talking about this, have been carrying around a book called 101 kerala delicacies for the last two weeks. D'you think you could advice me on how to make butter, pepper, garlic Squid?????
i supposedly studied bengali in school for three years but the only sentence i ever learnt was aami bhujte pare na which means i dont understand. 6 and a half on hundred was the highest I ever got in the blasted subject.
Mallu veg food is quite nice actually. As is Tam and Kannadiga food. And Andhra food. Gujju food. Marwari food...actually, India is spoiled for choice. The truth is I can go without meat or fish for months without cribbing (much).
No idea about squid...but I could probably ask around. Spicy crab curry is what I recommend to everyone.
i see that you are online. Totally agree about the Andhra vege food but really months only vegetables really months????????????????????
I find it hard to believe.
Spicy crab curry would be excellent.
It's practically like that anyway. IIT food is so bad I often go to the mess too late for the weekly hunk of boiled bird. I eat the occasional kabab or curry, with my beer.
Intoxication is far harder to live without.
I see you're job is like Vaibhav's, in that it leave's so much time for creative bloggery. What is it you do again?
aaiiyyee still havent figured the correct nomenclature for what i do but i guess i am in the international marketing section of this agrochemical firm. the upside is that i get to travel like crazy the downside is that there are days like this which i spend banging my head agaist a wall finding these elusive companies hidden nooks and crannies of the corporate world. remember zorro Garcia and Co?
Yes of course. Zorro Garcia, the random string of words of such deep significance! Heheh.
So you're a jetsetter eh? Where all have you been (forgive my Indianisms) in pursuit of ...er...agricultural markets?
Went to Sri lanka, Myanmar and Scotland last year. Going to Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolovia and Chile next month.
i take it from the comment about mess(y) food that you are making your way in the world of engineers and such. How come the headbangers didnt get to you?
Wow you've really seen the world! How on earth did you land this job? If I fail as a neuroscientist, perhaps I'll try this agrochemical marketing business. Do I have a shot?
Yes, I am among the engineers, but I am not one of them. I'm doing an MSc, so I remain firmly non-professional (and unprofessional).
The headbangers do their thing, and I mine. A high speed internet connection allows me to connect with the indie rock scene, and stay musically alive.
i see that tera aur yohan ka rishta pakka hota jaa rahaa hai! jai cyberspace milan!
jai cyberspace milan!!!thums up to virtual reality!!!!
No comment.
(Note gentle irony.)
Anonymous to haii kaun..........methinks its Pranav or Uday.
Yohan take no notice. In anycase until we get through turning Yohan into pakka punjabi there can we no scene of rishta. But we are working on it.........Engineers are no match for my paneer powered magic.
Do yer durndest. IITians will turn into Gentlemen before I absorb an ounce of Punjabi-ness.
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