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[Sharma Ji]

Chinese engine's are mocked but the mobilisation of expertise, industry and sustained resources needed.... they are well placed to atleast reduce the gap

I don't even know who might could even possibly next enter this elite club, more elite than nuclear which is not so elite really.... South Korea?

West, Chinese and Ruskies...

They no want a 4th in da club

 

[Sharma Ji]

They'll outsource the odd screw production or something to em, maybe.

 

[ghazi52]

 

[Sharma Ji]

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Old school @Lastofthepatriots ? RazPak ?

 

[ghazi52]

 

[ghazi52]

 

[gbrchplndpjri]

What is a low-caste Brahmin community?
Who are superior Brahmins?

I belive the Brahmin community has their own internal hierarchy. I don't know the technicalities, I just remember hearing that Sharmas are sort of looked down upon

 

[r3alist]

West, Chinese and Ruskies...

They no want a 4th in da club

Japanese too

 

[Joe Shearer]

I belive the Brahmin community has their own internal hierarchy. I don't know the technicalities, I just remember hearing that Sharmas are sort of looked down upon

Oh, I see.

It is a dodgy name, a generic name that any Brahmin can bear.

If there is any kind of hierarchy, it would put the Nambudiri on top (based more or less on their keeping their version of the Rg Veda in the finest high level of accurate chanting going), followed by both brands of TamBrahm, Iyer and Iyengar.

Then among the Pancha Dravida, going past Nambudiris from Kerala and Iyers and Iyengars from Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra and Telangana, when we get to Maharashtra, the Deshasth look down on the migrants from outside, so to speak, although all Brahmins are migrants, the Konkanastha. Ironically, the Konkanastha Bhats gave the Maratha state of the 18th century their great war-leaders, the Peshwas.

Among the northern five, the Pancha Gauda, nobody gives a millimetre to any other, although immigrant Bengali Rarhis, who claim to have come from Kanyakubja or Kanauj, claim Kulin status, that is a distinguished cadre, and a classification that gets entry into any public event with a religious aspect to it. But that's it.

This Sharma is looked down upon because he thinks that his brand of Hinglish is hugely delightful and amuses everyone, when it actually makes people wince.

 

[r3alist]

I belive the Brahmin community has their own internal hierarchy. I don't know the technicalities, I just remember hearing that Sharmas are sort of looked down upon

I think it's based on a perception of piety, and purity, split on north Vs south, roughly

The north Indians are seen by the south to be more liberal, including marriage, absorbed worldly foreign thinking a bit more hence have come to emphasise the spiritual aspect less than they should, less vegetarian, less temples

What do I know

 

[Sharma Ji]

 

[Joe Shearer]

I think it's based on a perception of piety, and purity, split on north Vs south, roughly

The north Indians are seen by the south to be more liberal, including marriage, absorbed worldly foreign thinking a bit more hence have come to emphasise the spiritual aspect less than they should, less vegetarian, less temples

What do I know

Reasonable guesses, from clearly sympathetic observations, but not particularly applicable.

 

[Joe Shearer]

Reasonable guesses, from clearly sympathetic observations, but not particularly applicable.

Let me give you (and others not Indian) a little tit-bit about vegetarians and vegetarianism in India.

If you take a point in Gujarat and make that the centre of a series of expanding circles, with increased diameters of 100 kms between each circumference, you will have drawn a map of vegetarianism in India.

By the time you get to the coasts and to the east, you are as far from vegetarian habits as you can get. This graphic is also an indicator of beef consumption; the further out you go, the more it increases. Most Dalits in the southern states eat beef; it is a cheap protein. Almost all tribals eat beef, and think about vegetarians as weird.

 

[Suresh Naresh]

I found out after 41 yrs that there are no holes in the pool tables in the "beat it" video.

 

[ghazi52]