--- On Mon, 24/8/09, J. Alfred Prufrock <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: J. Alfred Prufrock <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [silk] Public private conversation with Bonobashi > To: [email protected] > Date: Monday, 24 August, 2009, 4:02 AM > I'm new here, so pardon me if I'm > speaking out of turn. > > I am a "Bati", with lineage from both sides of the border. > Temperamentally, > I consider myself a Bangal and jibe at some stereotypical > "Ghoti" > characteristics. Parts of what Bonobashi wrote ring true, > parts seem like > popular myth. He may have experienced them, I have not. > > But I would say that he does the entire Bangal diaspora a > disservice by > choosing Mamata Banerjee to personify their supposed > qualities. My limited understanding of Silk and other social situations is that you are in no way speaking out of turn. It would be interesting to learn which parts seem like popular myth, purely out of curiousity. It is possible that we belong to different generations, and you might not have experienced first-hand some things which have since mellowed into a genteel poverty, with an upliftment into the ranks of the proletariat from the ranks of the hopeless. Could you get specific? This is not a challenge, just a search for differences in generational landmarks. Identifying Mamata Bannerjee is over the top, and she is a bad example and not much of a credit to the Bangal community. However, whom would you choose as a personification instead?
