Comments on: Handy Ghandhi

By: Bengal Voice

Bengal Voice — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:47:19 +0000

About 8-9 years ago, when I took the DC Metro train to College Park station, a kind American gentlemen sat down next to me and asked me if I was from India.

When I smiled and replied that I was indeed from India, the curious American wanted to know what language I spoke. I remember his words clearly. He asked me: “So, do you speak Gandhi?”

By: Johnny

Johnny — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:46:51 +0000

Great colonial fun?
dont be ridiculous. for a start australia was a colony of the UK.

How does The actions of one business represent ‘The West’, whatever that means.

this business may be owned by Indians, or Indian Australians,,, would that make it less offensive to you?? It is a franchise chain, what if some of those franchises are owned by Indians and others by whitey. Are white owned ones colonial insensitivty and indian owned ones just poor taste???

In the end though, Australia is a capitalist country, and business does not care about offending people unless it will effect profits. In my opinion though, anyone who is offended, at an individual or national level, by some crappy company’s attempt to sell (most likely) bad curries needs to grow up and chill out. life is to short to be offended by such silliness.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:37:05 +0000

The people of India are carrying on about this issue they should worry more about the fact that the movie bride and prejudice was filmed in the golden temple and many of the scenes showed that the actresses did not even follow indian tradition and cover themselves up the proper way now that’s disrespectful

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:32:56 +0000

to be precise the curry houses name is HANDI GHANDI not HANDY GHANDI.
this shows that the people doing the research to bring the curry house down could not have cared less about the fact that on numerous occassions the co-owner specified that it was mis-spelt to avoid direct connection to the gandhi family!!!!!!!

By: sunjay

sunjay — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 09:22:38 +0000

Its funny when so many Indians & foreigners lile Rajiv Indira Sonia Rahul Priyanka Sanjay Meneka and Feroze varun all used/use â€˜GANDHIâ€™ brand to sell themselves, no one has a problrm. So Handy used it aswell. Whats the problem then …..

By: ggk

ggk — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 04:33:00 +0000

Rajiv Indira Sonia Rahul Priyanka Sanjay Meneka and Feroze varun all used/use ‘GANDHI’ brand to sell themselves. So Handy used it aswell.

By: Aniruddha Dutta

Aniruddha Dutta — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 00:19:00 +0000

I do not know whether you already know this.

Taslima Nasreen’s French Lover mentions an Indian in Paris having a problem with his restaurant called Lal Killa going bankrupt.

He changed the name of his restaurant to Gandhi !!

The French could relate Gandhi to India. In fact, they knew the name Gandhi better than Lal Killa.

And as the story goes, the restaurant was up and running.

By: GREATBONG

GREATBONG — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 22:40:00 +0000

Because this is not the first time the West have chosen to be disrespectful to Gandhi. Even the way his name is pronounced and misspelt is proof that they could not care less.

This treatment is reserved only for us Indians however.

Have we ever seen a caricature of Martin Luther King selling jambalaya rice?

Or of Mao Ze Dong selling egg noodles?

By: Sunil Laxman

Sunil Laxman — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 20:35:00 +0000

Why am I not surprised with this??

By: Sharmila

Sharmila — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 17:38:00 +0000

Well pointed out…..