Sumeet Mulani ([info]teemus) wrote,
@ 2008-01-27 22:49:00
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Current location:Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
Current mood: amused
Entry tags:geeks, geeky, http, sindhi, stateless

Born for the WWW...
When people ask me which state in India I'm from, I do not have an answer, for I'm a Sindhi.

In short, I am stateless, just like HTTP. Hee hee.

FWIW, I hate geeks.


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[info]debbieann
2008-01-27 04:07 pm UTC (link)
so where were you born? I think to some extent that is what they are asking.

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(Anonymous)
2008-01-27 04:50 pm UTC (link)
Ask around for the meaning of nakhra '-)

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[info]bluesmoon
2008-01-28 12:45 pm UTC (link)
teemus wasn't born. he was assembled by the USA (United Sindhi Association).

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[info]eh_donia
2008-02-01 03:11 am UTC (link)
It could also mean the Ullhasnagar Sindhi Association... :D

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[info]smiles_tina
2008-01-27 05:09 pm UTC (link)
I'm stateless too. I'm half-bong and half-mallu. Dad's bong from Kolkata, mom's mallu from Kerala. I've not lived in either of the two states...and have lived 2 yrs at a time all over the country. So ya...when someone asks me that question, I don't have an answer...and say 'I'm Indian!'

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[info]teemus
2008-01-27 10:45 pm UTC (link)
You are dual-state.

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[info]bluesmoon
2008-01-28 12:47 pm UTC (link)
Heh. I've got one grandmom from Waltair, one from Karachi, one granddad from Madras, one from Mangalore, mom born in Kharagpur, dad born in Surat, me born in Mumbai.

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[info]vyshnavi
2008-01-27 05:24 pm UTC (link)
My mothertongue is Marathi, but it's a dialect called "Tanjore Marathi". I am from Chennai, settled in Bangalore and have no roots whatsoever in Maharashtra. To the Bangaloreans, I'm a Madrasi and to the folks "back home", I'm a converted Bangalorean.

India has too many divisions, LOL.

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[info]anomalizer
2008-01-27 05:34 pm UTC (link)
So everybody thinks you are not one of them. Welcome to the club.

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[info]vyshnavi
2008-01-28 05:43 am UTC (link)
LOL. I'm part of the club.

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[info]hitesh
2008-01-27 07:07 pm UTC (link)
So are you from Telangana or AP :-/

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[info]teemus
2008-01-27 10:45 pm UTC (link)
HYD

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[info]subtle_blues
2008-01-28 02:07 am UTC (link)
see.. that was easy! You are a hyderabadi! :)

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[info]debbieann
2008-01-28 04:15 am UTC (link)
maybe it depends who is asking. People ask me where I am from and I say San Francisco since I love that city and I have lived there for 15 years. I could also say Ohio because my parents live there and I was born there. It never occurs to me to say Hungarian because father was born in Hungary. So I think if you are from HYD, then saying Hyderabadi answers the question. Being American and living in India, people ask me that all the time, and I often ask them and usually they say they are from where ever we happen to be.

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[info]code_martial
2008-01-28 04:36 am UTC (link)
Ultra cheap publicity.

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[info]ga_woo
2008-01-28 09:48 am UTC (link)
I'm stateless too. Anglo-Indian.

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[info]eh_donia
2008-02-01 03:23 am UTC (link)
I am a diasporic Indian. A proud gujju. Then again a Mumbai-ite.
A melbournian to the Sydney siders. Oh well. Who cares?
(For marriage purposes, we usually look at the region in Guj, religious subcaste and the cultural subcaste within the religion in the opposite party. Mine is a perfect match, except for the cultural subcaste. Then again, who cares? I like the boi!!)

On another note, I am sure Hang Kang feels like home too? ;-)

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