The First Indian-American Governor in America

DM sahib,

(Indians, esp. Hindus, always like to claim anyone successful as their own.)

True and it sometimes raises people' hackles. My friend YLH was recently up in arms when someone (Sadna???) claimed Mehndi Hasan was Injun.

Regards

Ref ahmedmadani #2

[There is real hearo a recent grand master mr. Anand. He became world champion in chess competetion. But now baody said any thing. But cricket team was given great importance. Its all caste as I think mr. Anand is low caste.]

As Majumdar has pointed out in his interact, Viswanathan Anand, the World Champion in Chess, is a brahmin from Chennai.

Soon the Masanamuthus of Tamil Nadu will be petitioning the World Chess Federation to admit contestants only if they could provide a certificate attesting to their origin from a low caste so that one of the brain-dead could win the chess championship.

Oyeee Sardar!

About Jindal: Jindal (pronounced dʒɪndl̩) was born in Baton Rouge to recently arrived Indian immigrants, Amar and Raj Jindal, who were attending graduate school. According to family lore, Jindal adopted the name Bobby after watching The Brady Bunch television program, at age four and has been known by that name ever since, as a civil servant, politician, student, and writer. Legally though his name remains Piyush Jindal[1].

Jindal was a Hindu but converted to Catholicism as a teenager.

Re: # 8

Mittar Sahib:

I assume you mean the Indian community here in Louisiana. I don't know for sure, I've heard varying things.

Ejaz

dm-sahib, LOL, thanks for the information. We would know very little about human nature but for you telling us about them. Regards. :)

kaal:
Thanks for that info. I should have known - Indians, esp. Hindus, always like to claim anyone successful as their own.

dm sahib

The last I had heard, the Indian community, Hindus almost fully included, was behind the man. I am sure some committed Democrats oppose him.

ejaz sahib:

Is the Indian community behind Jindal or has it abandoned it for being an apostate to his Hindu religion?

Ahmedmadani sahib,

Mr. Anand is a Brahmin, not a low caste. Rather it is the Indian team which is a mix of all communities.

Regards

Re: # 4

I meant to say " I suspect that if Jindal were not Christian or Jewish his chances of winning any legislative or executive office in Louisiana would be slim."

Re: # 4:

nb: It is not uncommon for southern politicians to invoke religion, God, Christ etc in their campaign. I suspect that if Jindal were not Christian his chances of winning any legislative or executive office in Louisiana would be slim.

Ejaz, once again, let me congratulate you, this time for acknowledging your sources. It may be something we take for granted, but not on chowk.
Good luck to him, but I wonder how likely he would have been to win an election had he been a Hindu or a Muslim, instead of being a Catholic who flaunts his religon. In fact I wonder if that is why he is so open about his relgion, because he wants to emphasise he is one of them, not one of us.

lost caste wanted to say low caste.

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He Reminds me of Dinesh De Souza

Dinesh DeSouza returns from his coffin
Posted by Mark on October 16th, 2006

I hadn’t heard the name in years. I thought he was somewhere in a corner licking his wounds after the Clinton years had rendered him voiceless. However, he’s back, and James Wolcott has the scoop. He takes DeSouza apart piece by piece until there’s no skin left on his already bare boned argument. What argument? It doesn’t matter, because as usually it will be weak, however, if you must know, it is yet another tome on how the left is destroying America!!!!!!!!!! It’s ugly, so if your stomach is weak, you may not want to watch.