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Thursday, October 06, 2005

You North Indian Brahmin Male...!!

What does it sound like?
It sounded like a sentence, minus a verb and a determiner, which could denote a set of which I could be a component. A strange answer. May be it is because around 18 months, or so, ago these words would, and possibly could, have only been a group of intensifiers which never came together for me. Things have changed. This elliptical sentence has shaped itself into a swear phrase, and a perfect one. Why perfect? Because anyone who does not belong to either of these sets can use it as a currency to transact any possible-impossible, probable-improbable grudges. If someone shares the sets B and C with me, (s)he can arm her/himself with the A' set and come after me. Similar analogies can be drawn for the sets B' and C'. So, a person who does not belong to either one of these sets is more secure than I am.
I have been given various arguments. Argument X says that I am so engulfed with the presumed superiority status of these unchosen aspects of my social and geographical situation that I am now feeling insecure of the 'empowered' status of the corresponding components of the complementary sets. Argument Y professes the inverse theory of oppression and says that I am, rightfully, and justifiably, getting a taste of my own oppressive medicine, which I think I never prepared or prescribed.
What does it mean? It means that I belong to the most wretched of all the possible combinations of the sets and that anyone, and I mean anyone whom I dine, wine, talk, or move about with, or don't dine, wine, or even talk and move about with, can stand up and take me for worst of the rides, if, and just if (s)he wants to.