This is in response to Totti's latest post in which he recalls yday's play at PCG and accuses all Indians of being tongue tied and not appreciative enuff of some female who dropped by to join us yday. He goes as far as to brand it as typical Indian attitude. Now I would have replied to Totti's blog on his comments page as is typical practice, just that i have too much to write on this accusatory and unfair generalisation. Totti's u have unknowingly stirred a hornet's nest and shall hopefully come in for lots of flak for this post of urs. Wat u need to realize is that there exist all sorts of ppl cutting across all communities and cultures and its unfair to brand all Indians the way u have done. The way u speak in ur article smacks of a very popular stereotype and makes Indians sound like regressive creatures incapable of striking up a conversation with a female.
All i can say in the defense of PCG members is that we would have spent the evening chatting up to the latest guest and asking her out for coffee if we weren't busy with..........umm wat the hell were we doing yday..........but of course playing cricket. We still spent whatever time we had off the game explaining the rules to her and providing much needed encouragement. The so called sniggers when Shiva bowled to her (and I speak for myself) was pure amazement at her very admirable hand eye co-ordination (Shiva will begrudgingly admit to as much). I think she did a very good job for her first day at this alien game and she earned respect of most PCG members. Also we did well by treating her as a regular member during play and not making special concessions or treating her with kid gloves which i felt was the best way to make someone felt as part of a team rather than an unwanted newcomer. I hope I have made my point........adios Junta.
3 comments:
Totti,
Though Rohan gave good reply to your post I would just like to add that Its not about typical indian attitude. Its just so many times desi janta (even females) also comes and see our match. How many times you take an extra step in talking to them. So it's not about attitude towards female or foreigner or being shy of talking. Its just we dont take first step in talking. And I think we appreciated her enthu, while bowling and during her fielding as Rohan thoroughly mentioned. So my question is y it hurts u for being desi and next question is y do u blame it on whole desi community of your perception.....
Sorry rohan, Unfortunately, his blog doesnt allow non blogger to express their opinion, so I am making comments here..
Yo dudes...such strong opinions!! I am not a desist man! probably i was looking it through my distorted lens or something!! It is just the image of her sitting isolated from the group and the afterthought that i didnt even say hi or know her name and when someone addressed her as a girl ( i meant you need to call people by names and not genders!) ...and there is nothing wrong with class action..we reflect the same culture, don't we? the thing is how you feel about the whole thing.i mean pointy would rather not be called a desi but he still likes being his indian friends...
Totti..buy alleging that "i mean pointy would rather not be called a desi ", u have incurred my wrath and be prepared for untoward consequences....
...to start with u better be in the same team as me in PCG, or u would be fetching leather (3 oz, 21/2 in, green colored) for most part of the evening
Back to the blog...Totti its wrong to generalise..but I do agree with u to some extent...we did a really shabby job by not exchanging words with the visitor...
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