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Sujatha Gidla

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first: 2017-11-15
most recent: 2017-11-15
sittings or episodes: 1
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“I went to Mexico. I didn't see much of it. It's a beach place. And then I went to, recently I went to Czech Republic. People are really not that very interesting to talk to and interact with. And for them, Americans are really a huge deal. Like it's like some movie stars or something like that. And people are still missing things from the socialist days, how things were better. I think that beggars there, it's a new thing for people to beg, so they didn't know, they don't really know how to bag. They just like supplicate entirely on the ground. Like they don't look up like they just do like this. I found it very strange, you know? And then Barcelona, I went to Barcelona.”
2017-11-15 · Conversations with Tyler · Sujatha Gidla on Being an Ant Amongst the Elephants (Live) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I went to Mexico to a place called Porto Vallarta. It's actually a friend had a medical conference. I tagged along and they were having this huge conference and I was sitting in the middle and typing away, writing my book.”
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“I mean, you know that people with my kind of views, they don't get published in New York Times and things like that. So that's out for me. I don't like writing fiction. I like writing nonfiction, but only the kind of issues that I have, which involves Enthusiastic storytellers like my family and centered around an issue. For example, the farmer's suicide in India.”
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“Then, I don't know, a lot of books I like, Ferrante. I finish that book. Somebody else is like her book is supposed to be fictional realism. I don't really know what is the magical realism, social realism for fictional realism. If everything has to be categorized in this sense, I'll call my book Real Realism.”
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“Looking for things that she can desire and not get. That was a funny book. I liked it. Chester Heims is a black writer. Yes. He wrote black detectives and that stuff is funny. Actually, I'm reading one right now by blind man with a pistol.”
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“I liked certain books like Independent People by Haldor Laxness. He's an Icelandic writer. I like that book a lot. It's a really huge book. And I think that they categorize it as social realism. I liked it a lot. And then as for nonfiction, I read this book, A Hindu Holiday, by J.R. Ackerley. He went to India in 1920s and spent some time. That's really hilarious and well written book. I like that. As for comedy, there is Amanda Filippacci or Filippi. She wrote a book called Love Creeps. It's really, really hilarious book where the protagonist, a woman, she has everything that she wants and now she desires desiring because there's nothing else to desire for her. She's like depressed now. She goes around.”
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“Actually, the only relation I have with my family members is political views. If we have to connect on familial links, we will always be fighting and killing each other. All that we talk about with my mother is politics and untouchability and caste and modi and things like that. It's the same thing with my sister also. This is where we connect. Otherwise, we are like enemies. My brother, we are completely alienated from each other firstly because he goes to church now. We never used to go to church before. He is into this, you know, like Ayaka, is there a name? Ayakoka?”
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“You know, in the beginning, just after independence, when we were all filled with the fervor of Indians all equal brothers, sisters, at that time, there were a lot of movies talking about caste system where the hero who is a Brahmin marries an untouchable woman and things like that. But the politics and society has changed now. They no longer talk about social issues anymore. There used to be films about dowry system. There used to be films about laborers. There used to be films about untouchability. But now it's not that. Actually, the film Bahubali, which probably you heard of, right? It's like highest grossing Indian film or something like that. It's like through and through cast film, you know, it talks as if they say that there are certain people born to rule and certain people who are born to be. It's just outright caste film.”
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“You know, Ambedkar's slogan is educate, organize and agitate. This is a big thing for untouchables. They think that their emancipation lies in getting educated. But maybe true, but after education, they're not getting jobs. What can they do with education if there are no jobs?”
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“She doesn't deserve to be canonized and things like that. Mother Teresa is a big target for Hindutva people. I don't have, you know, she did good things for us. I mean, she may have some other ideas, but they're not perceived by us. What we perceived is she did a lot of good things.”
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“You know, the whole Christian missionary thing, it is part of white man's burden, you know, a prop for colonization, but people who joined those missionaries, the white people who joined those missionaries, not all of them are aware that we are going there to get people support for our colonizers. There are people who are sincerely there to help people. Mother Teresa, I don't know what her grand scheme was, but she really did a lot of good things in India. And she's now a big target for Hindutva people. They say that she's an agent of imperialism, agent of colonialism. She's someone who's spoiling Indian culture, trying to convert people into Christianity. She's a devil.”
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“That is, I think, is draconian. I mean, not all prostitutes are forced into it. What do men do if they don't have any partner? And its livelihood for many women. So I think that in the guise of feminism, people are really putting, they are really putting restrictions on individual liberty.”
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“I mean, feminists basically look as the world as divided between men and women, and I don't think that. And feminists have lately become such a force for backwardness in the sense that, like, for example, the burqa and the Muslim women in Europe, they want to rip the burqa off because burqa is a symbol of women's oppression. But they don't see like you can't just do like that, you know. The point is you give the choice to the people to wear the burqa or not, where the burqa, but not like you forcibly take the burqa off. And that's one of the feminist things I don't like. And then this Nordic model that they have in Sweden and they're appropriating it in Germany is that.”
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“You know, I'm not a supporter of the regime in China or in Cuba, but from all developmental indexes, they're doing well, right? There is more literacy in China and more literacy in Cuba and less infant mortality is better. And even women's equality is better. I know, I mean, it's not perfect, but they're better in these two countries. I don't know much about North Korea, but yeah.”
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“I mean, it depends on the person's interest, right? Sure. So people who really want to see what 80% of India is like they should go to the villages. And if people want to see the beauty of India and all that kind of stuff, they should go to Kerala. If people want to see the splendor of the Rajas, they should go to Jaipur. And if they want to see the squalor and all that stuff, they should go to Calcutta. And Banares is the place for, it's like the Mekov India because it's on the banks of Ganges. And you can look at it in two different ways. Like Brahmins will have such ecstatic experience when they go there. But at the same time, other people go there. They will see the filth and how polluted the riveries and so that's there.”
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“I mean, Brahmins like caste system. This guy on your blog was saying, you know, like casteism is very good and probably they should adopt it for American society. Wasn't he saying that?”
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“And things like that. I didn't think that I was sad, but everybody was saying that. And other people used to think, why are you so anxious? Just calm down and things like that, you know. So as far as untouchables are concerned and Brahmins are concerned, you can tell from the body language itself who you are.”
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“One thing is that most of the Christians accept Syrian Christians and some Catholic Christians in Goa untouchable Christians are untouchable. So immediately the lack of forehead dot tells them that I am an untouchable. And also, you know, there's a study, like, you know, Indians are genetically same, but apparently you could tell when the endogamy began. And so it's 1500 years ago, people are different. You know, there is some extra genetic thing that we inherit from castes. And I think that people's body languages can easily tell which caste you are. And when I came here, people would always constantly ask me if I'm walking on the street, like, why are you sad smile? Life is not that bad.”
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“A charitable organization and education, they're all within the same prefere framework. I would have to say things that I may be hesitant to say, but the social structure has to be basically, you know, smashed and rebuilt on a collectivized basis. Everything should be run, agriculture should be collectivized and industry should be under the state and foreign policy should be monopoly of the state.”
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“You know, like governments preside over a certain society. So even if I become the prime minister of India, I can't do anything about cash system being in a government that rules the same kind of society. The society has to be changed, not the government.”
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“You know, when Trump came to power, people were all saying that, oh my God, we're doomed and stuff like that. I thought maybe it's a chance for people to really see what's going on here and no longer be silent about things. So I was optimistic about that in that sense. But I think that, yeah, things can happen to make this country better.”
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“Well, you know, the Democrats and the Republicans by and large, they have the same interests. And the Democrats act like they're liberal. They act like they're for women's rights, they're for gay rights and things like that. But on the whole, they are the same. And Obama here comes and he's like pretending to be such a great guy. This guy wrote a book called We Were In Power for Eight Years. Who is in power for eight years? I don't understand that. And all these policies that the Democrats have, those are the same things that Trump is doing. Like Obama Care is his biggest thing. What is it? Like he, I mean, without precondition, I mean, pre-existing condition insurance, apart from that, I don't see any benefit from it, you know.”
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“Because I will alienate people. You know, people read this book and they think that, oh, she's automatically going to be a feminist. She's automatically going to be a supporter of Democratic Party. She's automatically an admirer of Obama, which I'm not.”
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“More radical, but you know, I refrain from talking about Obama or feminism, Black Lives Matter. There are certain things that I don't want to talk about because they sound like conservative views. But I am radical.”
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“Well, she wanted us to go to school and get educated. They are against humanities. They think that if one day there will be a revolution, you're required to teach something else other than what is a fact, like in history or something like that. But if it's science, it's going to stay irrespective of what society you're in.”
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“I think that India provided narrow windows of opportunity for untouchables. And it's like we were driving in a car and all the rides were turning green just in time. So the missionaries were one such opportunities. They came in my great-grandmother's time, so she was able to get educated because of missionaries. parents generation they got educated because it's the whole fervor of you know just got independence people are more liberal towards others and in my generation i had the benefit of two generations behind me in the tradition of education”
2017-11-15 · Conversations with Tyler · Sujatha Gidla on Being an Ant Amongst the Elephants (Live) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My sister lives here in Long Island. She is a physician. And my brother is in Canada. He is a chemical engineer. He works as a technology consultant for.”
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“Well, actually, I didn't see my uncle until just before I came here. I never saw him before. Touching momentum. So I can't say that, but...”
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“No, I don't, because these divisions were created by, we were not aware of, I mean, there are caste divisions, but we all consider ourselves ourselves as untouchables. We didn't think that we have to steal from them or deprive from them. But this is, you know, reservations is there to give chances for untouchables, but there are so many things that undermine this. So one of the things that they do is divide untouchables and make them fight over the common reserved seats.”
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“Well, you know, I'm not a social scientist, but I can only guess from what I read. I think that there's some special geological, geographical, climactic conditions that necessitated for some caste system to be there to division of labor because if land is, everybody, oh actually there's an example in Australia when people went from England to colonize people went there and some people were taken as the servants there and servants soon found land of their own and they were no longer servants. So that's the case in India. So people had to be forced into a caste system.”
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“Oh, yeah. I mean, it's not in the program of Communist Party to be casteist, but all these leaders, they came from Gandhi's party, and all they wanted is to for the nationalism to be militant like Gandhi says don't be violent. And yet his idea is that we should get independence. Whereas communists are like We want independence, but we'll be breaking chairs and benches for getting it. So that's the only difference. There's no programmatic difference. These are the people who came from Nationalist Indian Congress and joined the communist communists. And they bring along with them their caste attitudes.”
2017-11-15 · Conversations with Tyler · Sujatha Gidla on Being an Ant Amongst the Elephants (Live) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“By the way, I think that the French are still lying on the laurels of French Revolution. It's long gone and they have nothing else to show for it now.”
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“Yeah, yeah, Bengalis, you know, Bengalis is like the renaissance of India, and they consider themselves culturally superior, like the French think of themselves in Europe. And yeah, they were proud about that.”
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“What's going on? It's not under Modi that these bad things are happening. They have been started by Congress, the so-called Liberal Party, which I would compare to probably the Democratic Party here. They have started all these measures themselves in 1991 after the market liberalization. And Modi is shoving them down our throats and Congress probably had some kind of hesitation in imposing these measures. But that's why India, I guess, needed somebody like a guy like Modi who can just terrorize people into accepting these things. And in India, I don't know for whom it's a developing, but for the majority of people, it's going down. And I can say from my point of view, There may be some Ambanis and Adanis that are profiting from it, but everybody else is losing”
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“There are different kinds of immigrant groups, Arabs and Bangladeshis and Spanish people. And it used to be Greek and Irish. And now Indians, and it's a very safe place. And we have restaurants from different parts of the world. Everything is closed by and things like that.”
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“Because I don't really identify with the crowd there. Yeah. And I think hipsters is just in clothes and stuff, but not in attitude.”
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“Yes, yeah. They first stripped the farmers of their lands and let them die. So for 450,000 farmers kill themselves, suicides. And now they turn their focus on small business people. And now they're pauperized.”
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“Privacy and all this thing is a big concern, but the concern really is that all these measures are now, there was one measure, I think it's called demonetization. They scrapped 500 rupee bills and 1,000 bills. And so all these small-time business people, tea vendors, they're all like just overnight, they lost all their money. They keep their money in their houses. There's a woman in our neighborhood. She sold her house and she's going to live on her money. And she kept all the money in $500 bills in the house. And as soon as this thing was announced and it was told, she was told that your money is nothing but paper. She died of heart attack and it's not an isolated incident like hundreds of people died. Of this demonetization.”
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“Because it's like if somebody says that, oh, you know, this chair I'm sitting in is uncomfortable. It's like, oh, yeah, I'll solve the problem and kick this chair out from under the person who is sitting and complaining. So people don't have very low literacy rates. And how are they able to do these things? People are just dying because they have to have minimum balance in the bank and they don't know how to open bank accounts and their money is taken away.”
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“I don't know, that's what I grew up with. I mean, we got all the music and movies 10 years after you have them. So even though I wasn't from the Beatles and Bob Dylan Times, that's what we got. And when I was growing up, it really fascinated me that someone who's singing nasally can be a popular writer.”
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“Well, you know, it's a very, very strict job. It's like run on military kind of lines. If you have to be there at 2032, then you have to be there at 2032. It's all very difficult for me, but I really like the, I don't know, I mean, I'm pleasant when I'm helping people and I'm conscious to help people, not say get away from me. uh i don't know i mean yeah i i don't know i mean i i like to be a good co-worker rather than a good conductor”
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“It's very multiracial workforce, not so much from Western Europe, but all the other colored countries in Eastern Europe people are there. They bring in their own experience and they talk about it in crew rooms, and it's just more entertaining. For me, the thing is that I was working in Bank of New York writing programs and I had no idea what it was I was writing programs for. I should have known, but I didn't really care. But now I know what I am doing is how it's affecting. We're taking people from point A to point B where they want to go. I know for sure that what I'm doing is very useful. And that makes me feel self confident.”
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“No, no, no, no, no. In the beginning, the beginners are called extra, extra, meaning that they're sitting there and if somebody got sick or they have to go home, they will jump in and take their job. So half the time we're just sitting around for eight hours and going home. And half the time we're taking over for somebody else. So I always used to carry a computer with me. And one of the names I have is a computer girl. Apart from Hindu conductor.”
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“How did you do it? Actually, I didn't do it. That's why it took 10 years. 10 years. And then I grew up in a family where there are always 25 people milling around in the house. So we were like sitting on the steps of the house trying to concentrate. So I never sat at a desk. So now it is how I work. I cannot work at a desk in silence and in my privacy and things like that. I work while commuting on the train and I used to work during breaks at work like that.”
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“And we're not like that in MTA. We are very open and very passionate. We are much more cosmopolitan. We discuss things openly and uninhibitedly. And yet at the same time, we don't hurt each other.”
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“I would say MTA job because in Bank of New York I was making much more money. Even in 2009 I was making like almost three times what I make in MTA. And then I have like unlimited, sick leave and personal days and five weeks vacation and stock options and things like that. But the people are really so boring and uncosmopology. There are such narrow-minded people that I had this figurine of Darwin on my desk and this guy was glaring at me because he's a Catholic”
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“No, it's not. As I said, Marxism means class versus class, not a nation versus nation. In India, there are poor people and rich people, and in America there are poor people and rich people. And why is it some sort of defaction if I came here? I came here not to become a capitalist.”
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“That particular person Chandrabhan Prasad, he makes me puke. Tell us why. He was in the same radical students union as I was even though much older than me. And he went to JNU, which is like the highest university in India for humanities. And he studied something or the other socialology or something. The knowledge that he gained from being in RSU, radical students union, and what he studied made him a good person to defect and become a mouthpiece for Dalit entrepreneurship and Dalit capitalism. And Dalit capitalists, yeah, there are a few. There were none before. There are a few. I think that it's a kind of like they were given some kind of like, I don't know. A perk to become capitalist so that people won't say, Oh, how come you're so casties you don't have any Dalit capitalists? But Dalit capitalists are very, very much lower.”
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“I can't think of anything, but I used to think all old people that are by themselves going around by themselves are like beggars because old women don't go out by themselves. So I used to give money to these rich old women. Despite their brooches and”
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“Well, everybody loves to be in America. There are people who go like mental about wanting to go to America. So I'm not an exception. But my idea of coming here is to be more free. Women are very, very, very repressed in India compared to here. You know, like I was the first, people call me the first woman to be riding a bicycle in my town, but I'm really not the first one. There are two other girls, but they're like closed their legs like this and drive pedal like that. I used to peddle like a man. And there is not much scope for people like me to be in India if you want to be free and nonchalant and carefree like guys. There's no scope there. My main thing is to be free and intellectually free. Free to pursue culture. And even reading books is like why is a woman reading books? So for me, coming to America means a lot of social freedom.”
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