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<title>Comment by xl-vip</title>
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<title>Comment by Bill</title>
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<title>Comment by kush</title>
<link>http://desicritics.org/2006/01/28/020223.php#comment-12760</link>
<description>&quot;I will never have a washboard-flat stomach no matter how many sit-ups I do. And these hips are here to stay. I can&#039;t help it, I&#039;m Punjabi.&quot;

- Uncle, Not sure, it happened in south as well as west bengal also.

- Very few aunties face such problems, who have to work 14 to 18 hours a day not only at home out of home also.. &quot; Hard Work&quot;, please do not term doing kitty party, bring child from school, desribing near by friends how our uncels are bad and how thier mother&#039;s are out dated..etc  also to be included in  &quot;Hard work&quot; list.

Still i have to find some auntie in my dadi&#039;s village, who have some falsh on thier body!!!! We see more bone than flash.....provided we are not blind enough to see only those so called representative of Auntie section!!!

When our uncel and auntie will consider that, &quot;work and hard work both have some advantages and disadvantages.&quot; Want some thing in free or comfort work also have some advantages and disadvantages. Choice is with you, waht you want, you will get the same in return.

Example, auntie and uncel before marriage and after marriage...why such huge difference, let it be punjabi, or bengali!!!!</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 7 Jun 2006 02:07:13 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Baraka</title>
<link>http://desicritics.org/2006/01/28/020223.php#comment-2338</link>
<description>Welcome Jangjeetji!

Thanks so much for your enthusiastic response! :)

I wish you lots of luck finding your &lt;i&gt;sapnay di rani&lt;/i&gt; - someone who&#039;ll be willing to live life large &amp; wonderfully with you!

Warmly,
Baraka</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2006 13:50:30 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Jangjeet Singh</title>
<link>http://desicritics.org/2006/01/28/020223.php#comment-2304</link>
<description>Barakaji! Zindabadh! Someone who finally recognises what I&#039;ve been going on about for years: plus sizes win prizes, hai na! I&#039;m all about the weight! Because I&#039;m quite athletic and not too bad looking either, so people are always surprised when they see me drooling over the weight-unwatchers! And when I say &#039;big girls&#039; they think of some would-be slimmer, just venturing over her weight threshold. I&#039;m an African Sikh so I&#039;ve got Panjabi aunties on one hand suggesting sorting me out with a Panjabi kuri, and ammiji on the other hand doing the same for a kali kuri... but what I fear none of them realise it that I mean is WEIGHT, threshold long gone, voluptuousness long gone... POW! Both the apni kali kurian and apni Panjabi kurian are all going the same way, eating less, stressing more and I&#039;m screaming nooooooooooooo. They can take our lives but they can never take our Ghee! Freedom. Anyway, I&#039;m becoming slightly over-excited so better get back to the kaam. Oke ji,</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2006 05:30:51 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by deepti lamba</title>
<link>http://desicritics.org/2006/01/28/020223.php#comment-280</link>
<description>Baraka, you were talking about is a bowflex machine.</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2006 19:05:34 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by deepti lamba</title>
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<description>dpaks, or here is what married couples can do- separate trips, the men can go to South America and the women to Italy.</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2006 19:03:59 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Baraka</title>
<link>http://desicritics.org/2006/01/28/020223.php#comment-278</link>
<description>Warm greetings,

Beauty is usually a narrowly defined ideal in all cultures &amp; may well vary from decade to decade - but that ideal was still taken from &lt;i&gt;your&lt;/i&gt; race/ethnicity &amp; was therefore more realistically achievable. 

Right now what we&#039;re experiencing is the transfer of a &lt;i&gt;different&lt;/i&gt; culture&#039;s ideals to a worldwide arena. E.g., compare the covers of Cosmo or Maxim UK &amp; US with that of Indian versions &amp; it&#039;s clear that though the latter model may be duskier she is cavorting &amp; pouting in similar postures - &amp; that the articles inside are much the same. The same goes for MTV or international beauty contests.

And yes, most Hollywood women do have plastic surgery/eating disorders. But many average women &amp; men looking at a magazine really don&#039;t realize the extent to which plastic surgery/airbrushing play a role. The girlfriend of a friend of mine recently released an album. She&#039;s beautiful &amp; voluptuous. For the album cover though they airbrushed all her &quot;imperfections&quot; - including the lines on her hand. This sets up unrealistic standards for both men &amp; women.

Obesity in the US is definitely not the same as anywhere else, it really is a problem of different proportions here. And as for the French - what I love about them is that they presume a woman grows more attractive &amp; interesting as she ages &amp; gains more life experience. Now &lt;i&gt;there&#039;s&lt;/i&gt; a standard I can live with!

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<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2006 18:13:32 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by dkaps</title>
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<description>Deepti:

very interesting comments! :-)

I have been to Venezuela twice.. you know that country which has an assembly line of Ms. Universes and Ms. Worlds!  Needless to say its not a place for married man to visit alone. :)

What really surprised me was despite chocolate and cheese being their staple - the women some how do manage to keep slim and sexy.

Another thing that regularly irritated me at the malls there was hardly any shop for me to buy men&#039;s stuff.  Truly men, in that society, are an AFTERTHOUGHT! :-)  

Cheers,
dkaps
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<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2006 16:39:19 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by temporal</title>
<link>http://desicritics.org/2006/01/28/020223.php#comment-255</link>
<description>good read baraka!

this  is another one of the chicken and egg conundrum... more &lt;I&gt;troubling&lt;/I&gt; and slightly longer lasting for the ladies...

while perception and perhaps tastes also changes...i wonder if an &lt;I&gt;allora-ajanta&lt;/I&gt; built  model  can pass through her first interview at an agency or studio today

or for that matter the leading ladies of the blockbusters  in 50s and 60s will be considered too plump and unsuitable for current films  
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<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2006 11:34:34 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by deepti lamba</title>
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<description>solemn, its called a high metabolism rate.

Baraka, most celebrities have nips and tucks after they deliver. Even the Indian heroines are now going in for it. Demi Moore got a total body job done- but then again Bruce had the money to pay for it in alimony.

Recently, &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/01/21/124530.php&quot;&gt;I did a similar post on Blogcritics.org&lt;/a&gt; and was accused of twiggy-envy not by those who liked skinny women but by the exceptionally fat women who were in the denial mode- &#039;love me as I am fat and all&#039; and had made peace with their unhealthy bodies.

What we call over weight in South Asia are normal sized women in America and their obese, well, we never reach that stage. 

I have yet to see a South Asian woman beyond the size 12 or 14.

Don&#039;t know if that makes you feel better but umm...its the French women who are petite and glamorous not most of the American ones.
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<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2006 10:21:30 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by solemn</title>
<link>http://desicritics.org/2006/01/28/020223.php#comment-247</link>
<description>What about the girls who hog even more than me and yet can show off their sexy figures? :P I think it&#039;s in the genes... oh ofcourse I may not be accurate here, because these girls are teenagers.. perhaps they&#039;ll become fatter in the future :P Not that I want them to be. Imagine the nightmarish questions then from them like &quot;Do I look fat?&quot;
hehe
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<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2006 09:32:06 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by dkaps</title>
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<description>Great article!!  Voluptuous plump women are ADORABLE!!!  I think Baraka - the &quot;globalization&quot; of the twiggy female also coincides with the &quot;liking&quot; for that image by men - or supposed to - around the world!  If its important for women to look for the real person within them, its also equally important for men to articulate their internal desire!  For, in the end .. the Husn that sells is what the Ishq demands :-) and vice versa!
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<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2006 09:31:18 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by cow tse tung</title>
<link>http://desicritics.org/2006/01/28/020223.php#comment-242</link>
<description>What I&#039;ve never understood is why South Indian cinema features so many fat actresses.

That said, DJ/composer/artiste/producer BT has a track called &#039;Flaming June&#039;, considered to be a trance classic.</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2006 08:37:54 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Baraka</title>
<link>http://desicritics.org/2006/01/28/020223.php#comment-238</link>
<description>Warm greetings,

Aaman: Thank you! For me it&#039;s less an issue of twiggy vs voluptuous women or what men prefer &amp; more about the cloning issue - i.e., the globalization of narrow beauty ideals. Women should celebrate who they are instead of trying to force themselves into someone else&#039;s mould.

And, while a balanced diet &amp; exercise are important, incessant gymming, obsessive weighing, &amp; endless salads are just tiresome.

The Comic: It&#039;s one of my favourites. :)

-B</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2006 05:26:22 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by The comic Project</title>
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<description>I have that painting on my wall :-) It is called Flaming June</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2006 03:50:44 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Aaman</title>
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<description>Great post - women do not seem to know that most men would rather turn an eye to a voluptuous woman than to a Twiggy-clone.</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2006 02:06:39 EST</pubDate>
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