Wednesday, May 26, 2004

"That post that started it all..."

The response that the "Travails..." post got was mindblowing. Greatful to all who forwarded it to their friends. And yes Dun and Bradstreet Australia I love you too!!! But someone pointed out that while the post was funny it did tend to be a little parochial and refer to north and south indians as "us and them". People all around the world I mean no harm or ill will. I have many many north indian friends. Alas all male, but very northie indeed. So no hard feelings. My next post will refrain from any such issues. No, next time I will be targetting an altogether more niche enemy. Vegetarians.:)

Peace and love people.

21 comments:

Anonymous said...

You're future publisher is going to be so pissed w/ you ;) REALLY loved your Blog...

hemanth

Anonymous said...

That was a hilarious piece of writing. I got it trhu some huge forwarded mail and yes, I forwarded it too :-)
googled for "travails of single south" and got here to find the original piece.
Keep writing.

-Chetan

Anonymous said...

I didnt think it was parochial..its ur blog and u are a southie, so nothing wrong with you saying us and them...
Ppl are indeed sensitive huh?

Loved reading it though!

Anonymous said...

Hi Sidin, me also from RECT. did MCA and graduated in 2000. Got one of ur articles (the one abt Ponnalagusamy gettin chnaged to "george pereira" or wht ever..). good to c u doing the stuff still. Go on Sid......

SK said...

Sidin. You have a wonderful sense of humor, and most importantly you are an honest writer. Good luck with the book. Do you know Asish Gupta (passed out IIM-A this year)

Anonymous said...

ooo so u are the source of travails !!!
superb stuff dude... me too got it thru a fwd
great stuff you write macchha enjoyed reading it

- Sajiv

Ravages/CC said...

Why, Oh Why, Why really did you do it? I liked it, and as I mentioned, it is not offensive, not a case of us and them'
Liked it really.
And me and a lot of bloggers pushed up site ratings because of your post.
Thanks mate, and BTW - I am linking to you.

visit me at Selective Amnesia

Anonymous said...

hm....vegggies did u say?wait till i read it and get bak with rave reviews...that shud b interesting...considering am a Tam veggie ;) Sindhu

Anonymous said...

your post is doing superb rounds- its reached all my southie friends, though. i do agree with the 'us n them' tone. its inevitable, i say, when tackling such topics. great place u got here, shall come back for more.

Anjana (http://bedandbreakfast.rediffblogs.com)

Anonymous said...

heheh. aren't you just a diamond in the rough? spent far too much of my workday reading your blog and totally identifying with the gulfie childhood and the mumbai trains, among other things. have very little enthusiasm for south indian males, but i definitely feel for them.
-Tamara.

Girish said...

hey sidin,
gr8 article ...got it thru a fwd and then a friend found it was you who wrote it, since then have read all your articles and found that your humour still sucks;-),

Anonymous said...

Ho-hum. D20, eh? Way over on the other side?
Greetings from an ex-d18-er...
Loved the travails ... that's how I landed up here. Will keep coming back. Actually, liked the faqs too for facchas.

- Ankh

Kingsley Joseph said...

Yes, death to the vegans! Long live the Conspiracy of Cow-Eaters!

Anonymous said...

Hi dude. This is an oldie from the 2002 class. I had come accross some juice posts of yours by some vague means. Good to know that u blog. Would be fun reading.

Brijesh (AKA Malad, Dorm 9, 2002)
http://brijeshkhergamker.rediffblogs.com

Anonymous said...

zidane,

glad to know that you are still alive. imagine my surprise when i read a full forward and then find a bunch of known names in there. but sorta guessed its your kinda humor.

say my hello to ashwath, soddy and co.
-razdan(razdanrohit-at-yahoo)
(i hate posting as anonymous )

Nirav Kanodra said...

Hey now dont u dare say any thing to veggies, go for all the teetotallers instead. (tht is always us vs them issue)

Anonymous said...

:D:D... mad mad mad article, but you already know that. Do write one on vegetarians, i'd like to be on the other side this time on...
Cheers~
toinks

Anonymous said...

Got the travails post through a chain of fwds. Absolutely aggree with u dude, gr8 post...

-Dee

Sonnenscheinkatze said...

a southie by any other name is still smells ? ..
*bad and extremely politically incorrect attempt at being funny ... sigh*

liked your blog so much that i was inspired to write... unfortunately it just confirmed what alien abductees have been claiming all along... I’m challenged, literarily

Anonymous said...

hilarious article.
did the Ashwath Venkataraman mentioned here go to Rishi Valley?

Anonymous said...

charming intelligent witty guys but south Indians - sad mate! didnt u realise its a bad combo post reading sidin's post? :)