The most hilarious parts were related to your generalized, stereotyped descriptions of various Indian communities. It looked like 5th grade student had written it as a social studies assignment.

Coming from an eminent scientist of your stature this article was simply absurd. It was simply disappointing.

Were you just being goofy or did you write this in a state of inebriation!

This looks like an essay that conforms to Poe’s Law

The Sarasvati is not a river from myth. Geologists have for over five decades concluded that such a river as discussed in the Rig Veda existed.

Which state has the largest number of honor killings in India? Haryana did you say?

Now let us go to Punjab another North Indian state – Again most good-looking men in the country and in Bollyhood, the Indian film industry, are from Punjab. They are fierce fighters and very proud people. However, I fail to understand their obsession to migrate to Canada or any other country with a white population given the first opportunity. Most of the victims of recent Australian race violence are Punjabis. Corrupt? They are definitely as corruptible as anyone else in the country.

When in New Jersey, I met this Punjabi IT worker. During lunch he proudly announced that he bought this cool set of furniture from Wal-Mart, used it for a month and returned it to the store as part of the Returns goods policy. “Smart eh!” he adds with a smirk as if he had pulled of a great heist job.

We can spend our entire lifetime dissecting the nuances of each community and debating Sugata’s comments trying hard to find exceptions and inconsistencies, however, his observations are by and large applicable loosely. Another observation is that most of these segregations become diluted in cities. A Bengali in Delhi is as worse a show off as Punjabi.

We, indians, are by nature extremely emotional and we tend to take things too sentimentally…..and this is exactly what is reflected in the various reader’s comments !

Sugata has just pointed out certain demographic observations from his perspective. He does not want to impose his views on others, nor does he want others to follow his views!

In fact if we sit back and do some very, very objective thinking and analyse Mitra’s article, there’s a lot of hard hitting observations in it.
And the best part is - those who have read this article, know that there’s a lot of truth in Mitra’s P.O.V. but grudgingly doesn’t want to admit it ! (they will later, behind closed doors, or better still, after they get a bit tipsy with their buddies and then enunciate their views !! ;-)

Articles like this are a welcome read, tickles the gray cells better than “tandoori chicken masala” !! :-)

The fact that for the sake of FUN you can write this crap shows how insensitive, uneducated you are besides ofcourse being supremely superficial.

Also, whatever happened to being able to view things in a balanced manner… ? Are we also going to discount every compliment that Sugata has paid Indians as a whole and separately in terms of groups?! In case some of you hadn’t noticed, there are a lot of them in the article…it’s sad that we can’t face ourselves, warts and all… but even more importantly, we are forgetting what this was meant for… stimulating a discussion and perhaps giving some ideas about what ‘we’ might be best at… this isn’t meant to deride anyone…

By the way, are we forgetting how generalizations emerge?