Your intention was probably to make this humorous. But clearly this comment isn’t just as insulting to North Indians as it is to South Indians. Being stared at for eating meat *isn’t* the same as being stared at for being smelly and not being able to speak English. If you disagree, switch your comment around and see how you would perceive it yourself.

And for the record,none of what is quoted is true(and clearly, not humorous!). Not every North Indian eats meat,not every South Indian is vegetarian. I can tell you no South Indian is smelly, maybe some South Indians can’t speak English well, but that is true of North Indians as well. Regardless, does one’s knowledge of English put them on some kind of a pedestal?

If North Indians in Bangalore decide not to mingle with the locals, maybe the locals aren’t really missing much. I hate making such remarks, but your response to these comments have triggered this type of a response from me. All of us know how welcoming Bangalore is to non-locals. You can be from any part of India(or the world!) and live in Bangalore just as you would in your city of origin. Anyway, I have a lot of North Indian friends and I know for sure that they don’t share this mentality.

Unfortunately, comments/mentality like yours is responsible for what keeps India so divided to this day. A “questionable” comment in the first place, and then a response like this even after looking at the dialogue it triggered?! Since you seem to enjoy this, I’d like to add to what @Akshay and @GoriGirl had to say by saying “Thank God the rest of the world doesn’t feel the same way as you!”

But I don’t hate you, heh. Why on earth should I? I hardly know you, ma’am…. I didn’t like your comments. Found them offensive so responded in kind. Simple. If I started hating every Tom, Dick and Harry who makes such remarks,I’d be a really grumpy guy.
And I’m too young to die…

The comment is as “insulting” to North Indians as it is to South Indians. In Bangalore, North Indians used to sit uneasily with the locals until of course they decided not to mingle with them at all and build their lives around Ring Road – working, living, mall-ing. This observation, just like the original comment, was not meant to be PC and it was meant to be humorous.

But as I notice, while I was away from being online for a few days, the whole thing has brewed into a hate-fest. Great to be called racist (by @Gorigirl) and to be called slime (by @Akshay) meanwhile. Nice one, guys!

My original comment (in reply to Mallika, who actually got it), was that “dosa-sambar eating” is a really stupid adjective to throw in with the rest of them. The others are all clearly insults – but eating dosas or sambar is just, uh, eating a regular ol’ food – probably one that Shefaly has eaten and enjoyed herself. It’d be like me calling my Mexican grandfather some line up of insults, including wetback, and then throwing in, “and, and, you eat tacos!.”

Regarding my blog – I’ve never made claims that I know very much about Indian culture – in fact, I specifically mention that I have limited knowledge of India & Indians in my About page. If you don’t like the blog, that’s cool, tho – no one is forcing you to read it. Go off and do something else – perhaps watch some Monty Python?

For all those smart-ass quips neo has in his posts, he’s really naive when it comes to glaring hints, let alone subtle ones like these. Why don’t I just spell it out to him?

Neo – if you don’t come up with your next post soon enough, we’re going to turn this into our personal hate-forum. Well, I know I am. And why, while at it I’m even thinking of moving my personal emails here. Anyway most people I write to do read your blog.

I seriously hope you don’t think real life is more important than take-a-dig-at-everything posts? No pressure, but you have 24 hours before God intervenes. And then I don’t know who it’ll be more embarrassing for – God or you. But I do know it’s going to be fun for the rest of us to watch

Your time starts…now!

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