John Galt You certainly deserve pat on the back as far as your articulate writing and the topics that you choose to write are concerned. I have enjoyed your write-ups but today I have some reservations as well. After going through one of your craftily scripted articles/blogs few weeks ago on the infatuation (or love) you had for this lady from NY, I thought you are one such person who believes in spontaneity rather than appeasing the reader with politically correct statements. But I think this time around you chose a little touchy topic to be politically correct. “I had always been a proud Nepali who accidentally is a Brahmin” The use of word “accidentally” really did not go well with me. I feel as if you pushed that word in there to be politically correct. I would not delve into Balmiki-era to either vindicate or accuse Brahmins, as this would be way too vague not just for me but even for a crafty writer like you. “As an enthusiastic believer of fact over fiction, I prefer to believe Mendel over Mahabharata”. I was totally thrown off the track by this statement in particular and couldn’t help recalling an incident that I was involved in when I was in class 12. If I remember it correctly, it was the first unit test and we were sitting for chemistry test that was to be followed by English test on the same day. There was a lady sitting in front of me and just before the test this lady walks up to me and says that we could use each other’s help in the test and I oblige. The test goes well, and as agreed we helped each other. Then comes the English test and this lady tells me that she no longer needs any help, as she is good in English and what not. But what really had me pull my hairs was when she told me that that she had 80-odd in English in SLC and just 40-odd in Nepali. To this date, I have no clue as to why did she say so. Did she mean that her poor Nepali enhanced her English? The whole point is why draw analogy that doesn’t really compare. Also, I would like to add that if we keep gratifying these Bahun bashers with politically correct statements or with statements demeaning Bahuns than the day is not that far when people would not hesitate in saying a newborn baby belonging to Bahun caste is racist, sexist, and what not. Criticizing Bahuns is not going to help non-Bahuns in any way and vice versa. I am a Brahmin Nepali and I am every inch proud of it.