Comments for neoIndian - Confessions of a newly returned Indian http://neoindian.org Wed, 04 Apr 2012 07:40:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Comment on The only piece of real estate in Bangalore that is worth buying by Gargoyle http://neoindian.org/2010/01/22/the-only-piece-of-real-estate-in-bangalore-that-is-worth-buying/#comment-16073 Gargoyle Wed, 04 Apr 2012 07:40:02 +0000 http://neoindian.org/?p=1989#comment-16073 Did she really say Shobha Amethyst was "3km from the KR Puram Railway Station"? It's more than 3km even from Whitefield Railway Station that's the nearest one. As for the practice of calling every place in a 10-km radius "Whitefield".... they just get worse and worse, the real estate brigade! Did she really say Shobha Amethyst was “3km from the KR Puram Railway Station”? It’s more than 3km even from Whitefield Railway Station that’s the nearest one. As for the practice of calling every place in a 10-km radius “Whitefield”…. they just get worse and worse, the real estate brigade!

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]]> Comment on About by Gargoyle http://neoindian.org/about/#comment-15942 Gargoyle Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:40:05 +0000 http://neoindian.org/?page_id=49#comment-15942 Love your blog! Got here by accident and have been grinning wider and wider for the past 20 minutes (while unsuspecting colleagues wait and wait and wait for the copy they should have got an hour ago). Love your blog! Got here by accident and have been grinning wider and wider for the past 20 minutes (while unsuspecting colleagues wait and wait and wait for the copy they should have got an hour ago).

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]]> Comment on Why you should read the Vedas, and why the religious will never understand them by Who Am I http://neoindian.org/2011/06/16/why-you-should-read-the-vedas-and-why-the-religious-will-never-understand-them/#comment-15928 Who Am I Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:23:26 +0000 http://neoindian.org/?p=3005#comment-15928 You started with 4 headed brahma...then moved on to 5 headed brahma and then if that wasnt sufficient 32 headed brahma...I always have believed that our ancient literature is invaluable because it helps us understand the earliest attempts made by our ancestors at understanding the cosmos and philosophy with it. However, you need to take them with a pinch of salt... Just to understand what i mean to say, take an example of the wonderful essay on "300 ramayans" by AK Ramanujan...it explains to us how our epic of Ramayan itself has been explained differently by different regions and during different timelines, with events contradicting some aspects of the other. Under such circumstances how do you define which one is the absolute true version? Also, the vedas were just one of the attempts made by our ancestors...do u know that Atheism had its roots India and that it had its own set of literature on materilism...the vedas hold a bigger importance to other non sanskritic scriptures because of the inherent caste system that India followed and at the time Brahmins looked at vedas for their philosophy...Similarly if u look into the upanishads, it refutes the vedas and are tilted towards monoism...in such cirmcumstance we can only understand these as literature and nothing more... You started with 4 headed brahma…then moved on to 5 headed brahma and then if that wasnt sufficient 32 headed brahma…I always have believed that our ancient literature is invaluable because it helps us understand the earliest attempts made by our ancestors at understanding the cosmos and philosophy with it. However, you need to take them with a pinch of salt…

Just to understand what i mean to say, take an example of the wonderful essay on “300 ramayans” by AK Ramanujan…it explains to us how our epic of Ramayan itself has been explained differently by different regions and during different timelines, with events contradicting some aspects of the other. Under such circumstances how do you define which one is the absolute true version?

Also, the vedas were just one of the attempts made by our ancestors…do u know that Atheism had its roots India and that it had its own set of literature on materilism…the vedas hold a bigger importance to other non sanskritic scriptures because of the inherent caste system that India followed and at the time Brahmins looked at vedas for their philosophy…Similarly if u look into the upanishads, it refutes the vedas and are tilted towards monoism…in such cirmcumstance we can only understand these as literature and nothing more…

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]]> Comment on How to profit from innovation without innovating by Aurindam Mukherjee http://neoindian.org/2011/10/03/how-to-profit-from-innovation-without-innovating/#comment-15575 Aurindam Mukherjee Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:47:16 +0000 http://neoindian.org/?p=3040#comment-15575 This blog should be kept in mind by all those who are "trying" to write a book and all those who are "trying" to read something from an Indian author. I often come across numerous titles with a lot of typos and sentences that make me LOL hard. Thank you Sir for highlighting this very important issue! This blog should be kept in mind by all those who are “trying” to write a book and all those who are “trying” to read something from an Indian author.

I often come across numerous titles with a lot of typos and sentences that make me LOL hard.

Thank you Sir for highlighting this very important issue!

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]]> Comment on Why you should read the Vedas, and why the religious will never understand them by Who Am I http://neoindian.org/2011/06/16/why-you-should-read-the-vedas-and-why-the-religious-will-never-understand-them/#comment-15494 Who Am I Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:33:14 +0000 http://neoindian.org/?p=3005#comment-15494 My point is that scriptures are modelled to our understanding of life as we see and experience it... In other worlds elsewhere there may have been more complex diverse forms of organisms in totally unimaginable environments with its own understanding of right & wrong and different desires and inter relationships with other organisms, how do you fit in our model of religion and afterlife there...also we seem to take it for granted that these concepts are absolute and cannot be challenged...the universe has been around for atleast 13.7 billion years of which our sun has been around for only about 4.5 billion yrs and the modern homosapien for less than 50,000 yrs...how do we know how the universe was when the dinosaurs looked up into the sky and who is to say how it would be a million yrs from now... And as for all the praise being garnered upon the scriptures, why do we often only pick and choose only pleasant stuff from them and easily avoid the fallacies.... My point is that scriptures are modelled to our understanding of life as we see and experience it…

In other worlds elsewhere there may have been more complex diverse forms of organisms in totally unimaginable environments with its own understanding of right & wrong and different desires and inter relationships with other organisms, how do you fit in our model of religion and afterlife there…also we seem to take it for granted that these concepts are absolute and cannot be challenged…the universe has been around for atleast 13.7 billion years of which our sun has been around for only about 4.5 billion yrs and the modern homosapien for less than 50,000 yrs…how do we know how the universe was when the dinosaurs looked up into the sky and who is to say how it would be a million yrs from now…

And as for all the praise being garnered upon the scriptures, why do we often only pick and choose only pleasant stuff from them and easily avoid the fallacies….

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]]> Comment on How to profit from innovation without innovating by Lalit http://neoindian.org/2011/10/03/how-to-profit-from-innovation-without-innovating/#comment-15489 Lalit Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:45:21 +0000 http://neoindian.org/?p=3040#comment-15489 It is important for neo-authors to push their book sale via social media. We cannot ignore the social media. It is important for neo-authors to push their book sale via social media. We cannot ignore the social media.

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]]> Comment on Why you should read the Vedas, and why the religious will never understand them by Praj http://neoindian.org/2011/06/16/why-you-should-read-the-vedas-and-why-the-religious-will-never-understand-them/#comment-15478 Praj Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:26:23 +0000 http://neoindian.org/?p=3005#comment-15478 Neo.. Gun powder? Really? Thats the solution to everything? ok and what do you think would have happened? British would have got scared seeing our gun powder and would have done nothing. England would have become the colony of India :) All indians would have read Veda's and world would have become a better place...Gosh!!! Why did indians invent stupid disinfectant and why not a weapon of mass destruction.. Stupid indians :) Wait a minute.. We would still be calling ourself indians? Would their be an actual India or some assorted kingdoms with some kings sitting on elephants? all having weapons of mass destruction? I wonder how gun powder would have changed the course of history. Neo..

Gun powder? Really? Thats the solution to everything? ok and what do you think would have happened? British would have got scared seeing our gun powder and would have done nothing. England would have become the colony of India :)
All indians would have read Veda’s and world would have become a better place…Gosh!!! Why did indians invent stupid disinfectant and why not a weapon of mass destruction.. Stupid indians :)

Wait a minute.. We would still be calling ourself indians? Would their be an actual India or some assorted kingdoms with some kings sitting on elephants? all having weapons of mass destruction? I wonder how gun powder would have changed the course of history.

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]]> Comment on Why you should read the Vedas, and why the religious will never understand them by Praj http://neoindian.org/2011/06/16/why-you-should-read-the-vedas-and-why-the-religious-will-never-understand-them/#comment-15477 Praj Thu, 10 Nov 2011 07:18:27 +0000 http://neoindian.org/?p=3005#comment-15477 LOVE the response :) LOVE the response :)

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]]> Comment on Why you should read the Vedas, and why the religious will never understand them by Praj http://neoindian.org/2011/06/16/why-you-should-read-the-vedas-and-why-the-religious-will-never-understand-them/#comment-15476 Praj Thu, 10 Nov 2011 07:05:30 +0000 http://neoindian.org/?p=3005#comment-15476 The literatures of the past were written with narrow view of the universe. -- this is not true :) , May be some people in recent times understood it with a narrow view. Without reading any of the old literatures and knowing half truth is was made the indians lose respect of their own cultures. The science till few hundred years back thought that earth was center of universe, Their is nothing to be so proud of. Think you should read more books.. Our literature talks about ever expanding universe. We know of the 4 headed brahma in our understanding of 4-dimentional world that we perceive. Our literature talks of 5 headed brahma and goes upto 32-headed brahma. Just becuase you didnt read all this and we are taught the science in school make the litereture from past irrelevant :) Chill.. have an open mind.. thats all. Love science but dont discard and hate our literature ;) The literatures of the past were written with narrow view of the universe.
– this is not true :) , May be some people in recent times understood it with a narrow view. Without reading any of the old literatures and knowing half truth is was made the indians lose respect of their own cultures.
The science till few hundred years back thought that earth was center of universe, Their is nothing to be so proud of. Think you should read more books.. Our literature talks about ever expanding universe. We know of the 4 headed brahma in our understanding of 4-dimentional world that we perceive. Our literature talks of 5 headed brahma and goes upto 32-headed brahma. Just becuase you didnt read all this and we are taught the science in school make the litereture from past irrelevant :)

Chill.. have an open mind.. thats all. Love science but dont discard and hate our literature ;)

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]]> Comment on Why you should read the Vedas, and why the religious will never understand them by Praj http://neoindian.org/2011/06/16/why-you-should-read-the-vedas-and-why-the-religious-will-never-understand-them/#comment-15475 Praj Thu, 10 Nov 2011 06:40:26 +0000 http://neoindian.org/?p=3005#comment-15475 There never is an absolute truth. Even truth/knowledge has a context. The content of Veda's made sense to ppl 1000 years back in a different way. Every knowledge has a context, Our opinions are formed only by the facts we know. From 1000 years from now, if this world exists and evolves and if they read the same text, they might understand the contents in a different way! There never is an absolute truth. Even truth/knowledge has a context. The content of Veda’s made sense to ppl 1000 years back in a different way. Every knowledge has a context, Our opinions are formed only by the facts we know. From 1000 years from now, if this world exists and evolves and if they read the same text, they might understand the contents in a different way!

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]]> Comment on Why you should read the Vedas, and why the religious will never understand them by Praj http://neoindian.org/2011/06/16/why-you-should-read-the-vedas-and-why-the-religious-will-never-understand-them/#comment-15474 Praj Thu, 10 Nov 2011 06:29:18 +0000 http://neoindian.org/?p=3005#comment-15474 Hmm... Think you are completely wrong. Hinduism doesn't do that at all or atleast never intended to. I think you should read 'Jaya' from Devdutt Patnaik. He explains how well the Women were treated as per hindu dharma. Only may be last few centuries..the society has become like this but think its an extreme view to blame hinduism and that too Manu.

Hmm… Think you are completely wrong. Hinduism doesn’t do that at all or atleast never intended to. I think you should read ‘Jaya’ from Devdutt Patnaik. He explains how well the Women were treated as per hindu dharma. Only may be last few centuries..the society has become like this but think its an extreme view to blame hinduism and that too Manu.

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]]> Comment on Shock laga kya ? by Subhashini http://neoindian.org/2009/06/25/shock-laga-kya/#comment-15473 Subhashini Mon, 07 Nov 2011 23:21:59 +0000 http://neoindian.org/?p=1391#comment-15473 Yes I agree. You do sound like you are not old enough to talk about a lot of things. Why else would you generalize over a million people and make the sweeping assumption that you know them all. Somewhere in your misguided rant I sense frustration and ignorance. I am curious to know how many of "these people" do you know with this so called "refugee attitude" - a 100, 500, 1000. At what point does knowing "these people" become knowing "enough people" to make an educated guess about a community's attitude. And why is it that an NRI complaining about the roads or the school system become such a grave social sin - I have both appreciated my school as well as complained about it when I was a student in India and I don't see anything wrong with that. And now if I do that as an NRI - I am suddenly branded as the one with the wrong attitude. Further, just as you know "these people" that you have such an issue with, I am sure if you make an effort to seek out NRIs who have returned to India and made a positive difference to the society there - I am sure you will find many. I must admit I was offended by your write-up but that said it is not my intention to offend you in return. But I believe in letting people know why I think they are wrong and being absolutely straightforward about it. Yes I agree. You do sound like you are not old enough to talk about a lot of things. Why else would you generalize over a million people and make the sweeping assumption that you know them all. Somewhere in your misguided rant I sense frustration and ignorance. I am curious to know how many of “these people” do you know with this so called “refugee attitude” – a 100, 500, 1000. At what point does knowing “these people” become knowing “enough people” to make an educated guess about a community’s attitude.

And why is it that an NRI complaining about the roads or the school system become such a grave social sin – I have both appreciated my school as well as complained about it when I was a student in India and I don’t see anything wrong with that. And now if I do that as an NRI – I am suddenly branded as the one with the wrong attitude.
Further, just as you know “these people” that you have such an issue with, I am sure if you make an effort to seek out NRIs who have returned to India and made a positive difference to the society there – I am sure you will find many.

I must admit I was offended by your write-up but that said it is not my intention to offend you in return. But I believe in letting people know why I think they are wrong and being absolutely straightforward about it.

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]]> Comment on A foreigner’s guide to traditional Indian dining etiquette by Piotr http://neoindian.org/2010/04/23/a-foreigners-guide-to-traditional-indian-dining-etiquette/#comment-15470 Piotr Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:35:49 +0000 http://neoindian.org/?p=2202#comment-15470 Hello! Great post :) I've got some questions that hopefully someone could answer. Me and wife are going to Goa in few days and both are very excited about food. We know we wouldn't be expected to follow proper Indian etiquette there, but we would very much like to learn. Do you think it's ok to ask in restaurants/bars for a lesson of how to eat particular food? I've heard there's lots of people working there from all around India (and not only), so maby it would be rather funny to ask a Nepalese to teach Goan way of eating over a plate of something say from Punjab ;) How do I for example eat a Goan fish curry with big chunks of fish? Or say tandoori chicken piece...still with just right hand? and I saw a lot of clips on you tube od Indian people tearing different breads with BOTH hands (but eating with right of course), is this acceptable? Thank you for replies!!! Hello! Great post :) I’ve got some questions that hopefully someone could answer. Me and wife are going to Goa in few days and both are very excited about food. We know we wouldn’t be expected to follow proper Indian etiquette there, but we would very much like to learn. Do you think it’s ok to ask in restaurants/bars for a lesson of how to eat particular food? I’ve heard there’s lots of people working there from all around India (and not only), so maby it would be rather funny to ask a Nepalese to teach Goan way of eating over a plate of something say from Punjab ;) How do I for example eat a Goan fish curry with big chunks of fish? Or say tandoori chicken piece…still with just right hand? and I saw a lot of clips on you tube od Indian people tearing different breads with BOTH hands (but eating with right of course), is this acceptable? Thank you for replies!!!

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]]> Comment on 20 signs that you’ve successfully made the transition to living in India by Andrew http://neoindian.org/2010/01/07/20-signs-that-youve-successfully-made-the-transition-to-living-in-india/#comment-15466 Andrew Wed, 02 Nov 2011 21:20:23 +0000 http://neoindian.org/?p=1941#comment-15466 Makes one cry about coming back dont it? lol Makes one cry about coming back dont it? lol

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]]> Comment on How to profit from innovation without innovating by ekplatepanipuri http://neoindian.org/2011/10/03/how-to-profit-from-innovation-without-innovating/#comment-15462 ekplatepanipuri Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:29:58 +0000 http://neoindian.org/?p=3040#comment-15462 In desi style, "You have no right to disrespect the ones who write in desi- style." In desi style,

“You have no right to disrespect the ones who write in desi- style.”

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]]> Comment on How to profit from innovation without innovating by ekplatepanipuri http://neoindian.org/2011/10/03/how-to-profit-from-innovation-without-innovating/#comment-15461 ekplatepanipuri Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:21:08 +0000 http://neoindian.org/?p=3040#comment-15461 Neo, I'm writing a book named "How to write satire in 10 easy steps. Beginner's Edition." Would you write the introduction page for it? Neo,

I’m writing a book named “How to write satire in 10 easy steps. Beginner’s Edition.”

Would you write the introduction page for it?

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]]> Comment on Return to India myth #4: Moving to India will make you happy by Subhashini http://neoindian.org/2009/03/21/return-to-india-myth-4-moving-to-india-will-make-you-happy/#comment-15459 Subhashini Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:07:44 +0000 http://neoindian.org/?p=376#comment-15459 Not that there is anything wrong with it ;-) Not that there is anything wrong with it ;-)

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]]> Comment on Return to India myth #4: Moving to India will make you happy by Subhashini http://neoindian.org/2009/03/21/return-to-india-myth-4-moving-to-india-will-make-you-happy/#comment-15458 Subhashini Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:04:13 +0000 http://neoindian.org/?p=376#comment-15458 Really liked this post, probably the best ones I have read about moving to India. I am moving back to India next month after a long, long time in the US. My life in the US has been terrific..can't complain especially on the work front. I know life in India is going to be different but isn't living all about loving change.

Really liked this post, probably the best ones I have read about moving to India. I am moving back to India next month after a long, long time in the US. My life in the US has been terrific..can’t complain especially on the work front. I know life in India is going to be different but isn’t living all about loving change.

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]]> Comment on The war for women by Shubha Tha http://neoindian.org/2009/05/14/the-war-for-women/#comment-15450 Shubha Tha Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:37:02 +0000 http://neoindian.org/?p=436#comment-15450 It is a very in-depth and well written post, sprinkled with satiric humour. Well done. Pls spread the message by publishing it. But other than mindset, there also needs to be a system and law that supportsd freedom for women. It is a very in-depth and well written post, sprinkled with satiric humour. Well done. Pls spread the message by publishing it.

But other than mindset, there also needs to be a system and law that supportsd freedom for women.

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]]> Comment on Return to India myth #4: Moving to India will make you happy by bigR http://neoindian.org/2009/03/21/return-to-india-myth-4-moving-to-india-will-make-you-happy/#comment-15449 bigR Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:10:11 +0000 http://neoindian.org/?p=376#comment-15449 Slamdunk post! I've barely been outside the country for 8 yrs and I just realized that I am the "confused desi" (irony fully noted :) ). Reverse culture shock notwithstanding, I think I'll always be more adjusted to life in the US (sadly though). Slamdunk post! I’ve barely been outside the country for 8 yrs and I just realized that I am the “confused desi” (irony fully noted :) ). Reverse culture shock notwithstanding, I think I’ll always be more adjusted to life in the US (sadly though).

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