Sumant Srivathsan wrote:
Disclosure: I'm TamBram, IIT-educated, multiple advanced degree-owning,
America-returned, member of elitist invitation-only groups, intellectually
arrogant, extremely articulate in English, deluded by imagination of
grandeur, and mostly quite tolerable company. If you're as elite as I am. :)
How are you "tolerable company" if you have delusions of grandeur and
are intellectually arrogant?
I am not half as elite as you, but found your rant interesting.
I grew up devoid of any social skills that are gained growing up with
siblings, I have no siblings. I was top of my class at school
(non-elite, meant for kids of blue collared public sector workers). I
had the luck, luck really had a lot to do with it, of joining an "elite"
college called St Joseph's in Bangalore. It was more fun than elite,
IMHO. But I tried to catch up on some social skills there. I am really
not happy to say I am a brahmin. I don't know what it means these days,
except that you get screwed everywhere because of reservations and the
assumption that you are wealthy.
I drink, I used to smoke and I eat meat. Am I still considered a
tambram? Did I say I love wine? :-)
