Disclaimer: If you are Bihari who is way too jazbaati and has read about a lot of "cultural cringe" and other jargon and consider any joke aimed at you as a potential missile launched to demean you and shred your identity to pieces then this post is not for you. This also goes for the non-Biharis who mock people from a different culture/ ethnicity and wear their self inflicted sense of superiority as a badge of honour while it actually is a badge of shame. People belonging to both of the mentioned classes must not read any further. I write film reviews too sometimes. May be we can meet up over those blog posts :)
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If the post title were a Multiple Choice Question (MCQ) the options could very well be something like the ones mentioned underneath:
a) The ones having Kumar/ Kumari (say... ABC Kumar, PQR Kumari)
b) The ones having two first names (say... Narendra Rahul or Sushma Soniya)
c) The names where "sha" (श) and "sa" (स) swap places. (say ... Nitis or Shaurabh)
Take a pause! And think about the Bihari fiefdom in your friend circle pompously carrying these specimens as a signature of their ethnicity. Smile. Read on.
An exploratory analysis for the sets mentioned above leads to a familiarity with the Bihari/UP ethnicity. In a way, that makes all the Biharis identifiable. Haha! Unity! In diversity!
Let us delve deeper into the three subsets mentioned aforesaid:
While addition of a Kumar/Kumari in the name adds uniformity, it also signifies that most of us Biharis belong to the same family sharing a common name. Commonality. Ek Parivar... you see!
The curious case of two first names (I too have it but mine is a case having a different reason of its own ...potential content for some other blog post maybe) represent diversity. Two distinct first names. Yet belonging to a same individual. Ek roopta ...you see!
The third set carries with it the perennial problem which we Biharis face when in comes to pronunciation. For example... we get bitten by machchad while India has issues with machchar. We await shaavan ka mahinaa because we are totally into barsha ritu. So we tend to be a lot more khus when that happens.
Between the three, I guess the second has a lot more swagger. Why? Because if AMU fame Syed Ahmed Khan (and later Jinnah) gave undivided India the Two-Nation Theory, then we Biharis too were not very far behind. We gave the post independence India a Two-Name Theory. Take that! On your face haters!
Yo!
The title of the blog post is Saprem (read: सप्रेम) dedicated to William Shakespeare!
(to be continued...)
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If the post title were a Multiple Choice Question (MCQ) the options could very well be something like the ones mentioned underneath:
a) The ones having Kumar/ Kumari (say... ABC Kumar, PQR Kumari)
b) The ones having two first names (say... Narendra Rahul or Sushma Soniya)
c) The names where "sha" (श) and "sa" (स) swap places. (say ... Nitis or Shaurabh)
Take a pause! And think about the Bihari fiefdom in your friend circle pompously carrying these specimens as a signature of their ethnicity. Smile. Read on.
An exploratory analysis for the sets mentioned above leads to a familiarity with the Bihari/UP ethnicity. In a way, that makes all the Biharis identifiable. Haha! Unity! In diversity!
Let us delve deeper into the three subsets mentioned aforesaid:
While addition of a Kumar/Kumari in the name adds uniformity, it also signifies that most of us Biharis belong to the same family sharing a common name. Commonality. Ek Parivar... you see!
The curious case of two first names (I too have it but mine is a case having a different reason of its own ...potential content for some other blog post maybe) represent diversity. Two distinct first names. Yet belonging to a same individual. Ek roopta ...you see!
The third set carries with it the perennial problem which we Biharis face when in comes to pronunciation. For example... we get bitten by machchad while India has issues with machchar. We await shaavan ka mahinaa because we are totally into barsha ritu. So we tend to be a lot more khus when that happens.
Between the three, I guess the second has a lot more swagger. Why? Because if AMU fame Syed Ahmed Khan (and later Jinnah) gave undivided India the Two-Nation Theory, then we Biharis too were not very far behind. We gave the post independence India a Two-Name Theory. Take that! On your face haters!
Yo!
The title of the blog post is Saprem (read: सप्रेम) dedicated to William Shakespeare!
(to be continued...)
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