ExpertDabbler

Let me summarise what i wanna say so that i can be done with this stuff.

i wrote purely bcos vatsan’s post was really good enough to elicit a response.
i like indian attire. i hate ties, shoes.

Having said that in an office environment, whatever i wear will be standard dress.
i dont want one for x and y dress for alpha and beta community.

I am not against brahmins. Caste discrimination is rampant in every section of the society. The Nadars practice it. The Thevars practice it albeit a little more forcefully in their dominated areas. The vanniars practice it. Its practiced all over Tamil Nadu. If anything the brahmin’s version is mild. No ‘A’ rated / violent stuff.

Instead of saying all this, i said my own commmunity practice this discrimination in some form. i wanted to state there is nothing rational in being proud of your brahminism or Nadarism or Chettiarism. You can still be proud irrationally.

If saying something abt a community which i know so well is anti-brahminism then i’m anti-muslim, anti-hindu, anti-sikh, anti-christian, anti-everybody, probably some powerful antibiotic.

Many thanks to all my friends for their suport, directly and indirectly.
And many thanks to people who still find me anti-brahmin.
You always find what you want to find.

Ipdiye irunga. Politician ungalai thakkitu unga community aalai unga constituency la niruthina marakaama vote podunga. This applies to all communities. Politics need your community tag more than anybody.

Prabukarthik is a good enough identity for me.

Forget it folks.

My next post will be on Cinema.

I really enjoyed this movie clip. ROTFL stuff. And btw the copyright for this truly belongs to the one who made it. Not me.

movie velai seyyalai. you can download the stuff from here.

I was browsing Sujan’s blog and came across templenet website link. And it reminded me of the interactions I had with Kanniks. I was so impressed by his site content and his other talents that I really wanted to know more about him and write a book on such similar people who manage to do 2/3 things at the same time. Typical Multi-faceted personality this Kanniks Kannigeshwaran. He was nice enough to call me amidst all his hectic schedule during his short trip to India.

Needless to say, my book project is yet to take off, for want of knowledge on the subject.

We even spoke over phone a couple of times. But of late lost contact.

The other person is Arun Vaidyanathan. Arun is based on NJ.
Me and arun exchanged mails sometime back. Is a very good short film maker. His short films can be downloaded from his site arunhere.com Arun also maintains a tamil blog here.
There is another thing common between me and Arun. We both work for Polaris:)
I am a regular at his blog though…

This western attire is another sticky issue. I mean literally.
In our weather conditions, we are better off with Pyjama and Dhoti rather than blazers, ties, full-shirts, shoes, stinking socks, etc. But a closer look will convince us that it has got a more to do with economics and power and less about appropriateness. An open, economically weaker country will be influenced by the superior country in all the ways including dress. Unless there is a conscious decision to uphold our traditional way of dressing through some use of force (Read Taliban in Afghan), there is always this tilt. Lifestyle directly follows money and power. This is the bottom line.

The British introduced pants and full-shirts. Till date we find tamil middle-class grooms pose happily in their new blazers on their wedding reception, much to the chagrin of their fathers-in-law who have shelled out money for that.

Once India becomes a super power as we all dream it will one day, you will find a boom time for our traditional clothing. Even now, NRIs who are financially independent turn their attention to Indian culture much more than more than denim clad resident Indians who are busy swallowing Pizzas and Burgers.

If we take Bangalore for example. The IT Revolution has had a dramatic impact on the average Bangalorean’s lifestyle. What was once a pensioner’s paradise is now a bastion of IT and ITeS workers whose thinking is undoubtedly western. The reason being the Indian IT industry is more influenced by US economy than our own. The clients are from US and UK. So what goes for cool and trendy by their standards has a kind of bearing in the lifestyle of the people who work for them. Kerala might look like an exception in this regard but its just that change is slower there.

To sum it up, I would love to come to work in a pyjama if madichu kattina veshti et al might give room for exhibitionism by some pervert men.
It’s high time we thought about it and a consistent, decent, Indian weather friendly dress code gets evolved and standardized across the corporate world in India.