Where are you from?
This is inevitably the second or third question in the conversation starter chain. The first depending on the sex could either be Are you married/Where do you work?
The question I earlier alluded to sends me in a tizzy with a long-winded explanation waiting to be reeled off.
Would it be better to say , from my mother’s womb or even apt What is it to you?? without sounding impolite.
With a surname that smacks of the hinterlands of Lalooji but absolutely no connection whatsoever, I’m a truly confused Indian. Thankfully I’m not confused about my Indianess, so far atleast.
I am proud to be born in this country which by default makes me an Indian, isn’t that enough?!
Do I have to state my caste, my community, my religious leanings.
Hark the census!!
Do I have to name a father who never was but a name sake and not give due credit to a mother WHO is above ALL.
Hark the census!!
Will a unique identity number let me be, just be an Indian, ever so humble?!
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I m from laluji’s hinterland. courtesy my surname–mishra, which i try not to write. courtesy–late vp singh n the great justice mandal. a generation in laluji’s hinterland got born without a surname. parents chose to hide it. courtesy–so called lower castes backlash against all the jha’s, mishra’s, thakur’s, pandey’s. a generation became ‘kumar’ n ‘kuwnari’.
where constitution failed, lalu n vp n mandal did. (this is a d findings of a research i hv been doing).
thankfully mother’s womb had no title. yes tht was d place frm where i am n was. but mother was from her mother’s womb. n her mother’s mother– millions year ago–was perhaps n amoeba. n d amoeba was water n water was fire n fire was smoke. everthing was just smoke. still when people ask–tell me about urself? i jst wonder. sometimes i say i m fire, smtimes a river n whn still unable to convince i say i m smoke. nothng else.
@rajeev. wow. sort of sums up my response to ur comment. u forgot to add the dubeys, chaubeys and lord knows who else?! and ur way is certainly better than mine (i launch into being rootless and 7 generations of history which elicits a HUH, who) . after all like you said it’s all smoke, isn’t it?!
Yes everything is a smoke. Didi I read ur comment after 9 months today. I find a few of your writings worthy of reading.
@rajeev, thank you for reading.
Are yaar, remove this ‘Comic Con’ background, i can hardly read anything.
Dear Avid blogger, much as I love to read your blog I would like to add that this background is a bit too distracting.
Will be great if you could go for a background with softer tones so that your writing stands out even more….
@jose and @leveron – yes guys went back to the clean background. Hope you keep coming back to read and comment!!