<p>Perfect: I am currently interested in linguistics but who knows what happens when I’m in college. There are so many subjects I would like to explore. And no, we do not follow any Indian traditions but I can understand a few words of Hindi thanks to ZeeTv !</p>
<p>Haha, you watch Zee? LOL! 
Do you see the usual saas- bahu charche as they are called here?
This is hilarious!
Bdw, I applied as undecided to Yale. So I totally get what you mean.</p>
<p>Actually my mother likes these endless stories. I find them great to learn the language because we have all the shows with French subtitles here, but to be honest, they are unbelievably boring.</p>
<p>I’d love to talk more about this so can we continue tomorrow? I’m popping in and out of CC atm.</p>
<p>Hi luceverita! I just found out that my great great grandmother was from Rajasthan. I was pleased to know that. I had no clue I had some Rajasthani blood running in my veins! So I’m a desert girl! Hot weather and desert girls go together. No wonder I don’t mind 45 degree Celcius.
But there’s no way to know where my great great great grandmother is from. 
Although I guess my great great great grandfather and my great great grandfather were from Pataudi. :D</p>
<p>Well all I know is my family line can be traced back to Kerala since time immemorial. They were warriors or such before settling down in proper jobs and agriculture. Then in the 20th century a great uncle founded what is now one of the popular dailies in Kerala. He apparently met with Gandhi as well. My grandpa fought in multiple wars before retiring and regaling everyone about the good ol’ days. My grandparents were among the first from my family to move out of Kerala, and two generations later our family line is moving out of India (i.e. Me).
This trace-your-origins thing is fun!
I got an email from Yale admissions yesterday out of the blue. I had a mini heart attack, I thought it would say something along the lines of-“You’re grossly unqualified for applying here, were you perhaps high or inebriated when you thought you had a chance? The nerve of some people.” But it was a pretty simple email, saying they saw I had them on my list of schools on the Common App and telling me about what I have to do to complete my application and reminding me about the deadline. So yea, nightmare abated.</p>
<p>Man you guys have more interesting life-stories than my friends. In my old school, this one friend of mine was the son of a famous singer who married his mom’s sister (who’s a prostitute), left her, and married his mom.</p>
<p>Hahahahahahahahahahaa</p>
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<p>i thought i was the only 1 ( CC ).</p>
<p>Dearie me Aniruddh, and I thought I had a semi interesting story. Your friend’s story would make a killer essay, if handled right.</p>
<p>Hahahahahahhahaha =D </p>
<p>I know SUCH weird people with weird life stories that it is not even funny.</p>
<p>Go on tell us! I love hearing crazy life stories 
Redirect to TiT # 18, if you will.</p>
<p>Nah talk here. Mods aren’t watching.</p>
<p>I’d rather not though, because then if anyone I know reads this it won’t be very nice :(</p>
<p>Ah yea. And your username’s not very inconspicuous either
Nevertheless, the one you did share was very entertaining. I’m trying to imagine what it would be like to live in a family like that. The craziest stuff I’ve heard here is just multiple divorces and flings, that’s all.</p>
<p>Pixie: I am surprised you do not know your close ancesters. I thought in India everyone had to know exactly his genealogy for at least 7 generations for some religious reason. Is that not true ?</p>
<p>One of my distant cousins is like half Rajasthani!</p>
<p>^^Really? I did not know of any such thing? :S
We do know that “marriage means you’re bound for seven births” (yeah right) but I did not know of any rule dictating that the history of seven ages has to be known!
Well, I asked my grandfather on the way back from testing center, so this is what he told me. I’ll ask my grandmother for her side. She’s more pious, so she’ll be knowing of such traditions. I do know that her family is from the temple side. Anyway, great great great is 5th last gen!</p>
<p>Arunemo- That’s really interesting to hear! Wow!</p>
<p>Compscifan- I’m not very much rajasthani if I just found out about it today I guess. :)</p>
<p>Haha her dad is Bengali and her mom’s from Rajasthan…hence, half Rajasthani and half Bengali.</p>
<p>Oh, that’s nice.
I was directing my post at Luceverita bdw. I’m sorry for any misunderstanding. That’s why I was talking about seven age old traditions in my post 
I see the cause for confusion now. I’ll just edit.</p>
<p>Hahah, oopsies.</p>
<p>perfect: I was told the reason for the necessity of knowing your ancestors for 7 generations is that Hindus cannot get married with someone who is related to him up to 7 generations. I think the ethnologist Claude Levi Strauss even explained that the reason for this was to force people to have economic relations with other villages and thus contribute to overall economic exchanges within the country. Is this all false?</p>