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INDTHINGS
INDTHINGS
4 years ago

Plot Twist: That’s Razib singing in the background.

Also, somebody made a comment under my name in the India Election 2019 Thread. I don’t know if there’s a way to check the email we provide to verify this, but if not, we can tell by the poor grammar the fraud used.

Xerxes the Magian
4 years ago
Reply to  INDTHINGS

I just checked and you are right. The email address matches but the IP is different.

Curious
Curious
4 years ago

Zack, if what you say about the email address for that comment matching @INDTHINGS previous comments is true, I wonder how an imposter could know what @INDTHINGS true email address was to fill it in (unless someone knows him from elsewhere and knows his handle here). Sounds like he may be made a comment reflecting his true Indophobic/Hinduphobic comment but perhaps in a dash of anger without thinking through about how it would reveal his anti-indian/anti-Hindu hatred. Now he’s trying to cover it up by cooking up cock and bull stories.

Milan Todorovic
Milan Todorovic
4 years ago
Reply to  Curious

He should publicly denounce ‘taqiya’ as a prerequisite to become a candidate(!) for trust.

Note: Taqiya – a law like that means lying and deceit. It means that a Muslim can put his hand on the Quran and swear to tell the truth, knowing that he is lying and knowing that he will be forgiven because he lies in the interest of Islam.

SP
SP
4 years ago
Reply to  Razib Khan

That’s my biggest fear — going on a drug bender and typing out my inner id onto these threads. May happen yet, but it hasn’t so far…

Milan Todorovic
Milan Todorovic
4 years ago
Reply to  Razib Khan

I used to have a glass (or two) of wines while commenting but now I am switching to Indian or Serendib tea…err, uhm…what is the inner id?

INDTHINGS
INDTHINGS
4 years ago

Xerxes,

If my email address is attached that means somebody with access to the information made a puppet account. Does anyone have access besides you?

I’m not accusing you by the way. For all our differences, I don’t believe you would ever resort to this. If you are the only one with access, I’ll explore different routes. Perhaps I inadvertently left my email address in one of my past comments.

Curious,

Lol please.

INDTHINGS
INDTHINGS
4 years ago

Nope.

“Hindutvadi” is not a term I have ever used when talking about Hindutvas.

I have also never once resorted to such childish insults as “defecating on the streets”, which as I understand it, would basically be shaming people for being poor.

There’s no chance of India disintegrating any time soon.

I’m not sure what “illusory power of vote” is supposed to mean, but I’m very much pro-democracy.

I also don’t type silly run on sentences (…and…and…) without any commas. I’m probably the most upset about that part.

Arjun
Arjun
4 years ago

Can the IP be matched against any of the usual contributors and further posts from that IP disabled ?
In fact can this be automated to punish spoofing ?

Arjun
Arjun
4 years ago

ObRelevantPost: fish/shrimp in mustard sauce – not sure what the Bengali name is but a very distinctive delicious dish.

Prats
Prats
4 years ago

Had a Bong prof in college who used to invite me over for dinner at times. His wife made some pretty excellent food. Have had a fondness for Bong food ever since. One of the most under-rated Indian cuisines IMO.

DM
DM
4 years ago

…and such is the craze that bengalis splurge on this fish anywhere in India. This thing goes up to Rs. 2000/kg sometimes. Sorry, I’ll just settle for Rohu. Poor man, simple choices!

girmit
girmit
4 years ago

Not one to stroke the egos of our bong friends but they’ve got a claim on having the most sophisticated cuisine in south asia. Great rustic food where they use all the bits of the plant and the skins of gourds and make it work with seafood and all that, to the more refined stuff that probably evolved to the metropolitan setting of calcutta. Some of the best “mughlai” food is of the calcutta variety as well brought over by awadhi/bihari migrants.

Scorpion Eater
Scorpion Eater
4 years ago

What does the word bhaja mean? Are you sure the word is not bhaat, meaning cooked rice. But then, I am not a Bengali speaker, so I wouldn’t know. Just guessing.

उद्ररुहैन्वीय
Reply to  Razib Khan

Almost certainly from Sanskrit stem bhRj- meaning to fry or parch (in cooking).

So the Bangla is cognate with Kashmiri buz- (to roast or fry). Nice to know!

Scorpion Eater
Scorpion Eater
4 years ago

Also, we have good old “bhajia” from a host of Indo-Aryan languages for anything fried.

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