....means I wake up at the crack of dawn, and after a bath, I commence my ritual rigorous pooja of two and a half hours, before which I would have milk and Prasadam cooked and ready to be offered after my pooja is done. After which I help with cooking and cleaning while chanting the Hanuman Chalisa. And then I leave for work. Of course I will make my prostrations at the pooja room before I leave. After a fruitful day at work (of course I am a techie, would you think I would let my brainy Brahmin brains rot?) I come back home, quickly freshen up, and do a half an hour pooja again. I know I know, what's the world coming to? But my very important tech job means that I have to cut down on the one hour long proper evening pooja. I am hoping the Gods are kind. And it goes without saying I say my prayers before bed. I mean which Brahmin does not do this? Because god forbid if you don't! Abhisthu abhisthu!
NOT.
Because I am not a god-fearing Pooja (not the girl the religious ritual) loving techie. I would not know SSL (is there something called SSL?) from SAP or whatever it is the techies do (and then obsessively abbreviate). I also am very unhelpful in the kitchen, and if it NEEDS to look like a recently bombed war zone, my mother would ask me for help. I have forgotten all the mantras and chants I learnt when I was little. I can still recite a little bit of the Bhagavad Gita, but the pronounciations will be quite questionable of course.
I also know that every Brahmin geek with a computer and access to internet would have thrashed this subject from every possible angle. Like this, and this.
But THIS:
This takes the cake!
I have no idea which newspaper ran this, all I know is that when I saw this at work I had a fit! I was rendered speechless at how stupid the whole thing seems.
Brahmins are not the small pox or the plague to "die out".
I have always been the first one to crack the nerd jokes, the techie jokes, curd rice jokes and generally join in the revelry online that takes a poke at all the nerdy absurdity we Brahmins love. But blithering statements about "late marriages" and "some couples have only one child" is not funny at all.
Who are these self appointed "Community Elders?". Where did they pop out of? I think there is enough of a plague of matrimonial sites, sabhas, and magazines. Brahmin moms (mine included) are tech savvy enough already. Any further "awareness" will lead to mass migration of the younger generation to the "yoo yess" as a means of escape. These "Community Elders" will then have a much bigger problem to deal with.
I belive the ONLY reason Brahmin weddings have a turn out of any sort is to hunt for prospective son/daughters in-law. I know for a fact that neither the food, nor the evening reception's kacheri is any way an attraction. Uncles and Aunties are usually doing the rounds, smiling and giving the girls/boys the "Brahmin-once-over". (Move over Manhattan-once-over. The Brahmin-once-over beats you in speed AND accuracy). I am sure their "databases" are far more accurate and up to date , when compared to anything these so called "Community Elders" are planning to create!
Also, I choked when I read about the apparent Lack of Education. "Some have done ONLY B.A. or B.Sc. ???". Three years after I completed my apparently useless Graduation in Commerce, I still get "Aiyo! No B.E?? Che! " from a whole host of Brahmins who are not even remotely related. Because a non-technical education is viewed with the same distaste as they would a doped hippie ragpicker or a non-Brahmin tech genius. But it is bordering on stupidity to air views like this on a national newspaper (assuming that it was. I still haven't got my hands on the original article.) How do they propose to find a "Solution" in any case? Send all the non-technical Brahmins to a Special Techie Camp so they find brides? Learn How To Be A Techie in 30 days.
I am guessing their next "bride" Idea is to replace "B.E" with a "B.E plus M.B.A".
And we wonder why we are the butt of all jokes?
NOT.
Because I am not a god-fearing Pooja (not the girl the religious ritual) loving techie. I would not know SSL (is there something called SSL?) from SAP or whatever it is the techies do (and then obsessively abbreviate). I also am very unhelpful in the kitchen, and if it NEEDS to look like a recently bombed war zone, my mother would ask me for help. I have forgotten all the mantras and chants I learnt when I was little. I can still recite a little bit of the Bhagavad Gita, but the pronounciations will be quite questionable of course.
I also know that every Brahmin geek with a computer and access to internet would have thrashed this subject from every possible angle. Like this, and this.
But THIS:
This takes the cake!
I have no idea which newspaper ran this, all I know is that when I saw this at work I had a fit! I was rendered speechless at how stupid the whole thing seems.
Brahmins are not the small pox or the plague to "die out".
I have always been the first one to crack the nerd jokes, the techie jokes, curd rice jokes and generally join in the revelry online that takes a poke at all the nerdy absurdity we Brahmins love. But blithering statements about "late marriages" and "some couples have only one child" is not funny at all.
Who are these self appointed "Community Elders?". Where did they pop out of? I think there is enough of a plague of matrimonial sites, sabhas, and magazines. Brahmin moms (mine included) are tech savvy enough already. Any further "awareness" will lead to mass migration of the younger generation to the "yoo yess" as a means of escape. These "Community Elders" will then have a much bigger problem to deal with.
I belive the ONLY reason Brahmin weddings have a turn out of any sort is to hunt for prospective son/daughters in-law. I know for a fact that neither the food, nor the evening reception's kacheri is any way an attraction. Uncles and Aunties are usually doing the rounds, smiling and giving the girls/boys the "Brahmin-once-over". (Move over Manhattan-once-over. The Brahmin-once-over beats you in speed AND accuracy). I am sure their "databases" are far more accurate and up to date , when compared to anything these so called "Community Elders" are planning to create!
Also, I choked when I read about the apparent Lack of Education. "Some have done ONLY B.A. or B.Sc. ???". Three years after I completed my apparently useless Graduation in Commerce, I still get "Aiyo! No B.E?? Che! " from a whole host of Brahmins who are not even remotely related. Because a non-technical education is viewed with the same distaste as they would a doped hippie ragpicker or a non-Brahmin tech genius. But it is bordering on stupidity to air views like this on a national newspaper (assuming that it was. I still haven't got my hands on the original article.) How do they propose to find a "Solution" in any case? Send all the non-technical Brahmins to a Special Techie Camp so they find brides? Learn How To Be A Techie in 30 days.
I am guessing their next "bride" Idea is to replace "B.E" with a "B.E plus M.B.A".
And we wonder why we are the butt of all jokes?
