Any questions Regarding India

[arp2041]

Indian taxi driver: What's your name?

Me: My name is ______

Indian taxi driver: Where are you from?

Me: Sri Lanka

Indian taxi driver: "But you have an Indian name"

Me: "It's a Sri Lankan name"

Indian taxi driver: "But you have an Indian name. Sri Lankans have Indian names?"


This has happened way too often



Sanskrit name /= Indian name

Why do many Indians seem to think otherwise? Why am I made to feel like my name was "stolen" from the "Indians"?

How is the name Kumar particularly "Indian" when Nepalis and Sri Lankans use that name in their local language, and where it also has an actual meaning?

Latin had a prominent position across Europe and Sanskrit (as well as the Prakrits) had a prominent position across the subcontinent.

Infact many Sri Lankans actually have proper Sanskrit names, not the elised ones that many Indians use.

Please change ur name to either Muttiah Murlidharan or Chaminda Vaas or Sanath Jayasuriya, than every Indian taxi driver will say that "yes u have a Sri Lankan name"

or better don't sit in any Indian taxi, better use other public transports like the locals, bus, metro etc. there they hardly asks the name of a person, since they get to know it later when they steal the person's purse

 

[Joe Shearer]

Not trolling. I personally view Pakistan as Indians (specifically former Buddhists/Hindus/Sikhs) that converted to Islam and felt they needed a separate nation for their own people. I don't view them as some kind of foreign Afghan/Turk/Persian Islamic invaders because frankly speaking there has never been a Muslim from Pakistan that invaded India (geographically speaking).

Is that what you were asking or did I miss the mark?

I like this answer a lot.

Could I line up behind it?

 

[ice_man]

Please read this.

1961 Indian Annexation of Goa - Timeline

Some of the information on this page come from a Wikipedia article

OOPS i am sure you didn't read the bottom of the link you sent did you???/

besides if for a moment i presume that the events to be true! then letting people escape from opression is it a bad thing??? the question was did PAKISTAN ARM the portugese???

the answer is NO!

usually in war guys from both sides escape to neutral countries to avoid becoming POWs!

however, my personal opinon is that Pakistan should have actually helped the portugese more instead of sitting on the sidelines as neutral country!

 

[pk_baloch]

i have question

 

[pk_baloch]

who were u in pre -hindus times?

 

[arp2041]

who were u in pre -hindus times?

Ask this question to urself, u have not come from mars & were part of Indian civilization.

 

[pk_baloch]

Ask this question to urself, u have not come from mars & were part of Indian civilization.

i know wat WE ARE ... ......IVC SE PHELE KI IDENTITY HE TUMARE PAS JUST LIKE U ASKED US.......WE CAN EVEN TELL U SOME THING ABOUT PRE-ISLAMIC TIMES .....CAN U TELL ME ABOUT UR PRE-HINDUS TIMES?
DRAVIDIAN WERE NOT HINDUS,HAD NOT SANSKRIT LANGUAGE AND THE LAND WAS NOT CALLED HINDUSTAN,BHARAT OR INDIA....
ITS MY QUESTION WHO WERE U IN PRE -HINDUS TIMES?

 

[Ticker]

He was criticized for using Hindi language which identifies with India. I don't think he would have been criticized if he just said 'believe me'.

We don't speak Hindi anywhere in Pakistan. Most people would not have even known that he was using a Hindi word. Those who knew may have that objection in mind, but majority just criticized him for not using Urdu.

English is understood all over, so using the word in English, which is usually done, would not have created any misgivings.

 

[Dubious]

So on ?

How old are you englandiyea Pakistani 'fukrey' ?

What's Fukrey?

You wouldn't stand when one will start posting videos of Pakistani manners used in your Punjabi stage dramas where mother and sister characters are trolled at with double meaning words. I saw a program two days back where one of your media person was ranting and crying on Pakistani being abusive on every word uttered.

I touched on INDIAN abuses..Why have you changed the topic? I am talking about the common language! Not abuses! Oh, so going Maa tu...is an abuse? Then why do you guys say it?

Your Muslim bigotry is your salvation to your every inferiority complex as you can claim anything not being being Indian because it has something to do with Muslims.

You are having an inferiority complex right now! All I said is that we use Aap while Indians use tu AND all sorts of things came in between from maa behen ki curses to inferiority complex!

You are an empty vessel who has outsourced every thing from India even example of Urdu language 'Aap' which was invented and used in North central India and we practice it till today.

NOW Aap was invented ...few posts ago someone claimed it to be Indian! Hmmm...strange when in anger someone will pick up and throw anything at you even if it contradicting themselves!

 

[ChennaiDude]

Do the Indian Hindu people feel that Pakistan is an extension of Muslim invaders.

This is an honest down to earth question - no trolling please.

Absolutely not!....To me personally Pakistani people (Not the policy makers) want the same things that the people of India want ie...Peace, prosperity and security for thier family...truthfully Majority of Indians and Pakistani people want this..my opinion.

 

[KRAIT]

i know wat WE ARE ... ......IVC SE PHELE KI IDENTITY HE TUMARE PAS JUST LIKE U ASKED US.......WE CAN EVEN TELL U SOME THING ABOUT PRE-ISLAMIC TIMES .....CAN U TELL ME ABOUT UR PRE-HINDUS TIMES?
DRAVIDIAN WERE NOT HINDUS,HAD NOT SANSKRIT LANGUAGE AND THE LAND WAS NOT CALLED HINDUSTAN,BHARAT OR INDIA....
ITS MY QUESTION WHO WERE U IN PRE -HINDUS TIMES?

Typing in capital doesn't add weight to your point... Anyways, Hinduism as we know of today, is dated back thousands of years proved by carbon dating and other scientific techniques of Vedic scriptures, temples, treasure etc.

The word Hindusthan is mentioned in our Vedas (try Google)

 

[Dubious]

Yup, everyone is sick and tired of everyone else! We just want peace and be left alone! Enough drama for a lifetime!

 

[Ticker]

A wise old man told me, when I was an unwise young man, that when one points a finger at another, three fingers tend to point to oneself.

Had you noticed that both your questions, to Indians, about India, included the word Pakistan in the wording of the question itself?

Sorry Sir,

Your justification is just that.

I sought the opinion about India and not a counter opinion quoting Pakistan.

 

[Dubious]

Question asked

Why is that, most Indian posters here, while answering questions about India, answers these by quoting what happens in Pakistan or by denigrating Pakistan.

Reply given

A wise old man told me, when I was an unwise young man, that when one points a finger at another, three fingers tend to point to oneself.

Had you noticed that both your questions, to Indians, about India, included the word Pakistan in the wording of the question itself?

Awesome! So when Indians reply

quoting what happens in Pakistan or by denigrating Pakistan.

Source: http://www.defence.pk/forums/centra...estions-regarding-india-58.html#ixzz26v5cuGnt

They point

three fingers to

themselves?

 

[Ticker]

The main issue is fear of hyped "Indian cultural invasion". Pakistan can accept any alien culture but since it has to look different from India on two nation theory, it is national mentality to resist anything from India. Even Urdu is Indian culture, real Pakistani culture is Maula Jatt type.

From cultural angle, most countries tend to preserve their culture. Indians do and so do Pakistanis.

This was different. I explained earlier that most people in Pakistan can not read and write Hindi and he used a Hindi word which most Pakistanis would not have understood.

I know many Punjabi speaking Indian Hindus and Sikhs who love this movie.

However, movies don't make or create cultures, not even in India.