Posted on December 30, 2010
DEC 30, 2010 – The good people at Tehelka asked me (and three others) to pick a word — just a word — on which I could write a year-ender piece on. The airy mini-essay is here.
Happy new year, ye all. May the FSM bring you all that’s worth bringing.
Copyright ©2010 Baradwaj Rangan, Tehelka.
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Baradwaj Rangan 
anon
December 30, 2010
BRangan – Are you related to Velukudi Krishnan, both of you being iyengars etc. I just saw your foto on the Tehelka page and was stuck by how you are a dead-ringer for a namam-less Velukudi….
peace…
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kannan
December 30, 2010
Rangan – You’re bald!! Man, I’d have never guessed that. Thought writers always have huge heads of hair that they go crazy with as they ponder their brains in quest of the words that escape them. Wow!
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bran1gan
December 30, 2010
anon: Bloody hell! What’s this assumption that I’m an Iyengar? Names are deceiving, man. I could very well be part-Shinto, part-Shia, with some Syrian Christian blood thrown in 🙂
kannan: LOL! I have a feeling this is going to turn out to be one of the funniest comment threads ever!
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rameshram
December 30, 2010
brannigan,
your dogged devotion to kamalahasan, youe not only hungarian but of royal blood “he’s a princess”..congratulaaaations….(to paraphrase my fair lady)
I thought priti called you an Iyer on her blog…so I assumed you were an iyer. (I mean,after all, most krishnamurthys are iyers…)
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Just Another Film Buff
December 30, 2010
Yikes, this is the second post by you this month on bodily excretions. Blogical conclusion or biological inclusion #youprefer
Now, how ’bout a trilogy?
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Just Another Film Buff
December 30, 2010
Sorry about the trilogy part. Didn’t realize you’ve already reviewed Toonpur Ka Superrhero.
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rameshram
December 30, 2010
trilogy?
its a quatrology, no?
moocha kusu aay vandhi…
I hear bergman finally got to this stage of maturity in the magic lantern(being obsessed with bowel movements) , brannigan and ben franklin reached that stage much earlier. (See here.)
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bran1gan
December 30, 2010
rameshram/JAFB: Okay, the piece isn’t actually about farts, you know!
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rameshram
December 30, 2010
rose by any other name 😉 bwhahahaha
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kamil
December 30, 2010
Rangan – Am afraid from the pic one can really infer – Iyengarunnu thalaila eludhi ottirikku!
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Milind Rau
December 30, 2010
the article is not about flatulence!! we get that!! but one can imagine with what glee you must have written that article!! it shows!! and i enjoyed it!! flatulence CLEARLY is your cup of tea!! and, oh, you’re bald!!! my god!!
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rameshram
December 30, 2010
Ok I’ll never look at a cup of tea the same again.
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kanishk
December 30, 2010
3 Things to Milind’s comment
– Definition of Flatulence “expulsion through the rectum of a mixture of gases that are byproducts of the digestion process of mammals and other animals”
– That’s way too many Exclamation points for 1 Post!!!
– And Ditto – Rangan Youre bald dude!! Holy shit
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bran1gan
December 30, 2010
Milind Rau: You’re one to talk — after causing most of it. The baldness, I mean, not the flatulence :-p
rameshram: ROFL! This proves my theory that inside every hilfalutin’ film snob lies a sniggery ten-year-old.
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rameshram
December 30, 2010
Othan othanum pesaratha pattha veetula ponnu vechindu un kuda varan thedrapolai irukku!
Iyengaram sottiam! PARASHAKTI!!,
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rameshram
December 30, 2010
Except raja sen.
Don’t mess with Texas!
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bran1gan
December 30, 2010
kanishk: BTW, that defn. of flatulence was something they added – not me. I just wanted an intro line before my byline so that the whole of India did not wake up to a piece titled “Flatulence by Baradwaj Rangan”. You know…
rameshram: You should say “Oruthan.” The way this thread is turning out, “othan” for a second sounded like something else altogether 🙂
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rameshram
December 30, 2010
Sounds like a dialog from the kathadi ramamoorthy drama.. Vathhala podu vie!
I’m struggling with the ipad’s autocorrect feature…
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Just Another Film Buff
December 30, 2010
Hahaha… Intha thread naari pochu. You know, even Beethoven’s 2nd is an ode to his gastronomical problems.
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Gradwolf
December 30, 2010
LOL! Enna mari circa 2007-08 la yaarume yaaru indha Baradwaj Rangan nu research panla pola. Everyone discovering picture only now!
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bran1gan
December 30, 2010
Comment through email: Mr. Rangan, How can I effectively convey in words how impressed I was with this article – (especially the paragraph on social networking). It felt like all the thoughts I had suddenly had were condensed into one nice and neat paragraph. I also am a big fan of your blog to say the least. Words flow like poetry when describing a movie and that I believe is your USP!
Note to self: Forget big, analytical movie essays and get in touch with your inner adolescent pronto.
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rameshram
December 30, 2010
Aana romba kushwant singh aarathuku munnadi off ayiko.
Me? I have progressed beyond getting in touch with My inner adolescent to touching OTHER adolescents 😉
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jussomebody
December 30, 2010
rameshram: eh? BR isn’t mentioned in my blog at all!
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She_Who_Must_Not_Be_Named
December 30, 2010
Why am I not surprised at what you picked! 😀
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Venkatesh
December 31, 2010
BR/RameshRam: “Aana romba kushwant singh aarathuku munnadi off ayiko.” Oh yes, the first thing that came to my mind on reading that article was – BR is following the path of Shri shri Khuswant Singh Ji not of the Illustrated Weekly but of the “Jokes about Sardars”.
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bran1gan
December 31, 2010
jussomebody: I’m crushed. Just crushed.
She_Who_Must_Not_Be_Named: What do do! Old habits die hard, no? 🙂
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rameshram
December 31, 2010
unless I commented “something” on some other priti n’s blog, the links section says “Bharadwaj Iyer” .
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NullPointer
December 31, 2010
Stinky read, Rangan :-). Forget goddess of gas-we all now know who the god of gas is 🙂
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Gradwolf
December 31, 2010
@jusssomebody: I think that Priti is the Arre O Sambar fan Priti. Or that’s you?!
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jussomebody
December 31, 2010
ada kashtame. adu vera bHaradwaj! who is an iyer. not some reluctant iyengar.
BR, 😀
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rameshram
December 31, 2010
all you fugging iyers and iyengaars have the same fugging names.
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rameshram
December 31, 2010
PARAAAASHAKTIIIII!!!!!
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bran1gan
December 31, 2010
NullPointer: Yup, even my laptop is a Sony Vaayu 🙂
jussomebody: reluctant iyengar. ROFL! This thread is really something else.
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rameshram
December 31, 2010
But how can there be both an Iyer bharad waj and an iyengaar one? Did the bharadwaja muni do intercaste marriage with a para stree?
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Anand
December 31, 2010
Milind – LOL!! Hope K2K has similar tongue-in-cheek moments!
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jussomebody
December 31, 2010
aditya, all same priti. ‘fan’ it seems. zzz. is there even such a thing as an arre o sambar FAN?
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Pavitra
December 31, 2010
i was gonna say something..but the comment thread’s thrown me off track. so..whoever said velakudi.. ofcourse!! that’s who you look like! 🙂
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Hermoine Granger
December 31, 2010
Long time since I laughed this long! You should really install a like button for the comments now. The first two especially!
And you have lost a lot of weight since your fb pic! (My two cents to the current analysis of your pic)
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NullPointer
December 31, 2010
And your favorite mobile app should be Jack the Ripper,right?
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MumbaiRamki
December 31, 2010
Enna nadukudthu enga … Sambhar la jam pottu saapidara maathiri iruku …
Regarding the pic , i realised that baldness is an automatic hair cut that nature gives periodically saving us time and money .. a realisation that i had when some one took a top angle pic of mine 😉
You look very sanyasin man ( my experience of visiting RK mutt folks ) , nice pic !!
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kannan
December 31, 2010
Rangan-Other sites are teeming with their top lists of the year – Are you planning one???
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Tambi Dude
December 31, 2010
All iyers, pls note that you will always inferior to Iyengars because the “iyer” you go, the Iyengar you become
[ all in lighter vein ]
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Sandhya
December 31, 2010
“Sameer…hawa ka jhonka….”
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w
January 1, 2011
Happy new year.
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bran1gan
January 1, 2011
jussomebody: There are many, many out there. They’re just scared that you will beat them up if they make themselves known.
kannan: Didn’t write one for the paper.
w: HNY to you too.
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rameshram
January 1, 2011
brannigan! fighting words!! (velakudi comment)
its ok to be confused for an Iyer..calamities happen in the world all the time…but to be confused for a thengalai!!!!
che! (said with utmost disgust)
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kannan
January 1, 2011
Rangan – How about for the blog: you can delink both rite?
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kamil
January 1, 2011
Rangan – FYI: Even Rajeev Masand has a top 10 list this year man!
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tejas
January 1, 2011
Rangan, are you working on Airy Pottyier series after K2K? 😉
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