Comments on: Hindi speakers attacked in Bay Area

By: Santosh

Santosh — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:29:00 +0000

Rajesh,
We seem to be getting more of these hit-n-run comments. Not sure where these idiots are coming from.
Usually we let people express their opinions as long as they don’t cross the line. The comment above yours did.

By: Rajesh

Rajesh — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:55:50 +0000

Boy O Boy, Santosh the comments in Uberdesi are slowly giving rediff a run for their money. Is that good or bad?

By: Siggy

Siggy — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:29:56 +0000

Hi my name is Siggy and I’m a racist a’hole.

By: Praveen

Praveen — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:16:07 +0000

Sorry if it sounded so but I’m not in any way justifying the violence. Just trying to find reasons why it happened.

There is definitely an undercurrent of frustration of non Hindi speaking Desis against the Hindi ones. Have heard from fellow Singapore/Malaysian Desis about they get treated by these people.

By Desi, here I mean anyone of Indian race and not nationality.

In this case, the culprits are Hispanics and these people usually tend to interact most with Desi business owners who are again mostly Hindi/Punjabi. The Hispanics’ generally lower standard of earning could lead to frustration against these Desis. FYI, East Palo Alto and the part of Mountain View where this happened is dominated by Hispanics.

By: Runa

Runa — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:15:19 +0000

And young geenration is occupied using the power of blogging, pod casting to disect chandni chowk to china and billu barber.

Not just the young – the middle aged too!
To be fair to Sunny he was JOKING