CULTURAL QA 08-2021-23 Being a compilation there may be errors
Q1 How do youfeel when people ask, "Are you a Brahmin?" The moment you say you'rea vegetarian? A1 Bhuvana Rameshwar Former Teacher, 10h ago I don't even sayI'm a vegetarian, yet they assume I'm a brahmin. Why, I don't know. May be because Iwas plaiting my thick hair when most of my friends cut their tresses intoshorter flowy, hairstyles or with beautiful clips holding them in high pony tails.I was in modern clothes yet had long beautiful plaits single, sometimes two.This is thirty years ago. And I still do, I haven't cut them short or dye them. Most peopleconfused my skin colour too.Some assumed we had a love marriage. One LIC clerk thoughtI was my son's wife and that we made a mistake when filling the form …this wasthe most mistaken assumption.. I look younger for my age thanks to my plait. This pic is with myson, dil and grand child. In restaurantssometimes they tell us it is a non-vegetarian restaurant as we sit presuming weare Brahmins. Then we slam our hands on the table and say we are pure non -vegetarians. Some people thoughtwe were from Kerala as both of us do not look the typical “Tamilian look” andcall us Chechi /yeta.. (sis /brother). How do we feel? We just laugh. Whatelse to do? We do tell them we are Tamilians from Chennai, non vegetarians. We have not madeany mistake in our dressing sense, we are genuine in our way of talking,outspokeness or in our English, Tamil or Hindi accents. People presume, assumebased on their exposure. We have nothing to do with it. 22.8.21.HappyRaksha Bandhan to all Indians who think all Indian soldiers are our brothers,/sisters ! Q2 I've heard that Americans don'thave house maids and servants. How do the rich people in America work then? Dothey also mop their floors? Do they themselves clean their homes on their own?Do they have personal drivers? A2 MattRiggsby MA Archaeology, Boston UniversityFri The very wealthy may have full-time domestic staff workingfor them. But that’s too expensive for the vast majority of people, and withour increasingly egalitarian culture, particularly through the second half ofthe 20th century, it feels a bit weird for a lot of people with working classand middle class origins who become wealthier to have domestic servants. However, a good many people do contract out that kind ofwork. For example, my parents (reasonably well off but not rich) didn’t havemaids or anything like that, but they did hire a cleaning service to come inand sweep up every week. Very few people have a full-time driver on staff readyto go at any minute, but a substantial number of people use taxis and rideshareservices like Uber and Lyft. Hardly anybody has a live-in cook, but lots ofpeople get takeout or delivery from restaurants. Rich people, and even somemiddle class people, don’t do all the domestic labor themselves, but we don’thave full-time staff to do it for us. We farm out that labor differently. Q3 If there are Buddhist monks thateat meat and I know there are, then why do some Buddhists insist that noteating meat is proper? A3 Matt Riggsby MA Archaeology, BostonUniversityAugust 10 In Buddhism, one should not kill things or substantiallycontribute to their being killed (for example, by telling someone to goslaughter an animal). That includes killing things in order to eat them. Ergo,ideally, a Buddhist should be a vegetarian. Vegetarians don’t incur the moralburden of killing animals. However, there’s also a tradition of Buddhist monks beingmendicants. They survive on charity, being fed by those around them. This meansthat they have no choice in what they eat. Because they have no control overwhat food comes to them, they have no moral culpability for it either.Therefore, at least in some strains of Buddhist thought, it’s permissible formonks to eat meat under some circumstances. Q4 Howis the South Indian mentality different from the North Indian mentality? A4 ParasTyagi Writer, DTU, Inspector - Customs, GST (2018–present)Fri Born and brought upin Delhi.Currently in Coimbatore. People here don't crave the mundane tastelessgovernment jobs as much as the north Indians do. Here I leave myflat unlocked many a times when I go outside. In Delhi, our neighbour who justwent out for an evening walk returned, only to find his parked car stolen.Never go to park after park. I always felt thatthe Delhi auto-drivers were an expert in elevating the fares. Only when did Icome here, I came to realise how grounded the Delhi drivers were because allthe elevators are in Coimbatore. Delhiites lovetrying different foods and dishes but here people are quite conservative whenit comes to trying foods from other parts of the country. The servicesrelated to online start ups like Swiggy, Ola, Uber are not as organised here asin Delhi. The delivery guys and the drivers are much more cooperative in Delhi. People stick to thelockdown norms more scrupulously here. The rash driving ofpublic transport seems to be the norm here. Many a times the buses have combedmy side hair. It's a miracle I'm still alive after walking miles on the roads.I also have my ear. In Delhi, whiledriving you accidentally hit a vehicle and then there is a war. Here the peopleare relatively less aggressive and more polite. There are lesscalories in weddings here literally and figuratively….unlike the fat weddingsof Delhi. The show-offculture here is on the back-seat. If this show-off culture ever takes a backseat in Delhi, then the Delhiites will make sure it's the backseat of an AudiA6. This has beenwritten in lighter sense. It is from my perspective. No-where have I claimedthat these are the facts. Q5 Whatoffends South Indians the most? A5 Bhuvana Rameshwar Observe humansAugust 1 There are so manygood answers here. But all these are outdated as now everybody knows more.Thanks to higher education level, IT job transfers, more awareness thanks toGoogle, YouTube, online searches, increase in tours and travels, migrantlabourers in southern India and the frequent job placements abroad whereIndians share apartments. They know Bangaloreis different from Chennai, Allapuzha(allepey ) is in Kerala, and Bahubali wasproduced by a Telugu director . Pondicherry is best for drinks party and buyingnew cars.. And so on. What offends aSouth Indian the most? Here in this answer, all southern Indians are taken intoaccount 1.When in a groupof Indians the Hindi speakers speak in Hindi without any concern that there arenon Hindi people in that group. This offends me, irritates me, but I dosurprise them at the nastiest monent with my flair in Hindi, with a beautifulUP accent. Not all can do that. They even comment on the others. What if we dothe same? Just because the nurses talked in Malayalam in a hospital in Delhi,it became a national news and issue ! 2. Their drinkingsambaar from the bowls slurping with so much sound eeks. 3. They make fun ofus wearing salwar kameez saying it is not matching us, our body, skin colour orit is not stitched properly. 4. Convenientlyasking us in Hindi some address or route not trying to talk the local languageor English. Bangalore is now a North Indian Hindi speaking city. Bangalore andHyderabad have seen Hindi take over the native languages Kannada and Telugu.Everybody speaks Hindi, even if just a few words like “do doodh our ek dahi “or Auto challega bhai. It is sad to see this. This is not so thankfully inChennai or Trivandrum, Pondicherry and other major southern cities. 4. Making fun ofSouth Indian movies and heros..their accents, skin colour, dancing and dressingsense. Making fun of south Indian actress body weight or skin tone. 5. In manycosmopolitan offices the South Indians are made to do extra work as theynaturally work hard or they are too meek to refuse extra work. This makesdisappointed South Indians to look for jobs abroad asap. Many leave Indiaciting this as one of the main reasons. 6. We are oftenmistaken for other states if we are slightly fair, good looking and stylish.What an insult to our native land ! 7. Because we doour work silently without any showing off and get promoted easily, we arecalled as cunning, schemers, soaping the boss in our workplace, offices. 8.We are accused asgold hoarders as we own gold jewellery as our tradition. Even a lower middleclass wears minimum jewels especially the jhumka, payal. 9. Some make fun ofour Hindi accent not realising they do not know even one word of our languages. 10. Words likeSambaar, Ayyo, etta, chechi, coconut oil, are used as troll names for us panIndia colleges and offices. 11. We are hurt aswe are treated as a separate entity from INDIANS. unless reminded. Q6 Anelectric kettle rates 500W raise the temperature of 1 litre of water from 25°Cto 100°C in 15 minutes. What percentage of electrical energy is utilised inheating the water? A6 Balakrishnan Ramakrishnan, M.TechEngineering, Indian Institutes of Technology (1972) Answered March 24 Heat required toconvert 1 lire of water from 25 °C to 100 °C is (100 - 25) = 75 kcal. 1 kW ofelectrical power can produce 860 kcal/h. So 500 W of electrical power canproduce 500/1000 x 860 x 15/60 = 107.5 kcal in 15 minutes. So, percentage ofelectrical energy utilised in heating the water = 75 x 100/107.5 = 69.767 %. Q7 Howwould you encourage a young couple who wants kids but are uncertain now is agood time and are put off because of current world events? A7 Ramya Annadurai Technical Writer(2007–present)Fri Two of my friendsgot pregnant and delivered healthy babies during the first wave of thepandemic. One of them wasworried about the situation and delayed the pregnancy planning. Herin-laws started trolling her. Iencouraged her to be bold and go for the baby.A couple of months later, sheannounced her pregnancy news to me.Now, she is a happy mother of 9 month oldgirl. Q8 Isa pet parrot the only type of talking bird? A8 Claire Jordan Degree in biology and folklore; programmer, shop owner, secretaryon newspaperUpdated Sat No, ravens (andother corvids), mynah birds and to some extent starlings can also imitate humanspeech. Ravens do it better than parrots, though I don’t know if they understandit as well. Parrots always have a bit of a parrot accent, a bit squawky andbrassy, but a raven sounds like a tape-recording of human speech. I’m told thatlyrebirds, bowerbirds and mockingbirds can all imitate human speech as part ofa general tendency to imitate all the sounds around them. Q9 Whichis the most favorite snack of Tamilians? A9 Anwesha Barua (অন্বেষা বড়ুয়া)I dream of AlooParantha onlyWed After living inMadurai for almost 2.5 years and observing the eating habits of people here,one thing with confidence is that people of Tamil Nadu are crazy about vada andthat too Ulundu Vadai. I am sure Tamilpeople will agree this snack is something that you can eat anytime. I have seenhow my office people biasing over this vadai over any other variety of vadai. And this vada goesgood with anything - tea, coffee, sambhar, rasam, or even with biryani though Idon’t know people would love to disrupt the holiness of biryani with vadai butnevertheless. But Ulundu Vada makes everything awesome - if you’re sad, have avada. If you’re sad, have a vada. If you’re hungry, have a vada and if you’renot hungry, you will still eat the vada as it looks tasty. But in short UlunduVada is Godly! Ulundu Vadai is aversatile one that looks grand and tastes phenomenal. It is crispy from theoutside but so pillow-soft from inside. It is our version of donut and I caneven gurantee that if have a chocolate ganache on the Ulundu Vadai, it willtaste much better than donut itself (Don’t indulge in such atrocities, it isjust to make a statement). I have grown to appreciate this beautiful creationso much that I can never so no to vada if you offer me any time of the day. So next time yousee me, you will find me with tea and oru vada next to it! Vadai Venuma? Q10 Whydo bigger air bubbles rise faster than the smaller ones in boiling water? A10 Rick Kitson, former I Spent 9 YearsHelping Rebuild AfghanistanAnswered Sat It is an example ofthe cube square law. The forces makingthe bubble rise depend on the amount of water that the bubble displaces, itsbuoyancy. The forces slowing down the bubble depend on the surface area of thetop of the bubble. Double the size ofthe bubble and the surface area increases by 4 that is 2 squared but the volumeincreases by 8 that is 2 cubed. So as a bubble grows the forces making it riseincrease much more than the forces that slow it down and it speeds up. I am a scuba diver,I see this in action every dive. Eventually the big bubbles go so fast that theybreak up into smaller bubbles. The cube square lawalso explained why humans cannot get much taller based on our present form. Thearea of the bones, and hence the strength of the bones, that support usincrease in area, the mass that they have to support increases by the cube.Most of the tallest humans in history, those much more than 2 m tall, tend tobreak bones, w especially leg and other bones that support the body mass, moreoften than shorter people. I will leave it toyou to apply this to explain how come ants cannot grow to human size. Q11 protein can you eat instead of meat? A11 Alice Twain Eating and cooking for 40 years. August 13 Fish. Dairy. Eggs.Pulses (beans, chickpeas, lentils, etc.). Grains. Nuts… One importantdetail is that both pulses and grains don’t contain the full 9 essential aminoacids present in the other foods. But they complement each other, so a dishthat combines a grain and a pulse contain the same array of proteins as a pieceof meat. Q12 Howdo you calculate the wattage of ceiling fans? Gopala Krishnan,former Assistant General Manager 1996-2004 at Department of Telecom(1966-2004)Answered 8h ago Normal wattage ofceiling fans is 65 watts. It may slightly vary depending on manufacturingcompanies. All the above QA are based on Quora digeston 22-08- 2021/answered by me. Quora answers need not be 100% correct answers Compiled and posted by R. Gopala krishnan on 23- 08-2021 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. 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