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Originally posted by krishna:

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Originally posted by Jansher:

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Originally posted by chameli:
Jansher dear...
dem pandit who does look like sage is de ones who does want to touch whe dem should not

i know dis pandit in Markham...ponytail pandit, all he a do a tek dem ppl money and say he a wuk jantr mantr to get things right in dem life....he is a big crook.

we had an educated and loving Pandit at Bush lot corentyne berbice, who was from India; last immigrants. Munshi pandit;they man was like a sage and not corrupted. My dad learned Hindi from his mandir.

Buss he rass if he try to touch ...me coming to the hawan

i got jarayed by that man after one of my trips to bush lot in the early 80's. i truly believed i was healed of the syptoms i had. as u see i still talk about it. some people laugh when i tell this story. auntie moon from backstreet tried to do what she had to do. but that pandit somehow worked magic, true story man.

If we were only ahead of our time to hear more about Munshi Pandit and his indentureship experience. He was a robust pandit, religious, coummunity oriented, well educated and very spiritual. He looked like a geat sadhu topless always. Those were the days at Bushlot.

Amral/Jansher can we archive this thread and like threads with these pictures? It's worth keeping.

Some terms that were used in those days and maybe still beibg in use today:
This was found on the Web, and I thought it best to share:


abedeze: us people

achar: type of food me na explain 2 feel like what it iz

aja: paternal grandfather

ajee: a. paternal grandmother b. an ingredient of curry

aloo: potato

apaaraten: diarrhea

ayodeze: them people

bai/bwoy: boy

baigan: eggplant

backdam: farm and the best part of guyana to be fromz (especially canal #1 side)

balangay: eggplant

banawaree: it means something like poohar, phaglee or korhee. i do not know the exact meaning. i apologize for the inconvenience of having 2 ask u mumma what dis meanz.

banga mary: another type of fish

Barka: your husband's oldest brother

Barki: your eldest brother's wife

bartan: dish

batie: butt

batie bai: fag

belna: rolling pin

bhagee: spinach

big eye: greedy

bohorya: daughter-in-law

bouji: your brother's wife/ ur husband'z brother'z wife

BMH: berbice mad house

bubbie: breasts

buck man: the arowak people of guyana

caharee: that ting u mumma a make the curry in

calypso: all english coolie music

catahar: type of food me na feel like 2 explain what it iz

cha cha: uncle on father's side

cha che: uncle's wife on the father's side

chanicrow- vultures

chunkalunks: in tnt termz this meanz baby or something

chutkey: your youngest brother's wife

chutney: a. hindi and english coolie mix of music b. a type of food

coolie: the best type of people in the world

****: iz a cuss and me na wan explain am 2 ayodeze. u done kno what it
meanz anywayz

curry: the best type of food in da whole world

cutlass: machete

dabu: dipper

dee dee: older sister

dharampatni: your wife

duff: dumpling

dugla: a half black and half coolie person

dulaha: groom

dulahen: bride

dutty: dirty

fassie: fag

fat top: cake

fullahman: derogotary term for a muslim person

galeehar: the turkey neck part

geera: spice that is an ingredient in curry

gilbacca: a type of fish

gt: georgetown, guyana

gwan: going on

gyal/gyiul: girl

hassa: a type of fish

Jaat- pubic hair

jhandi: hindu ceremony

jootah: another person's spit

jumbee: a ghost

Kakahole- *******

ketch ting: to obtain a hot memba of the opposite sex

korhee: clumsy

landin: the porch

lele: drool

lolo: male private parts

lookanannie: another type of fish

mad rass: dumb ass

magga: very skinny

mamoo: your uncle on your mothers side

mami: your mamoo'z wife

masta- really good

mousie: your mother's sister

mousam: ur mousie's husband

nana: maternal grandfather

nani: maternal grandmother

obeyah: in guyanese termz this is voodoo

Patacake- female private part

phaglee: crazy

piknee: child

play fresh: to hit on someone

poke: female private parts

poohah: ur father's sister

poohar: you have no skills to do anything

pot: one gyal that think she proppa hot wid she self

proppa hot wid yuhself: to think u all that

punannie: female private parts

quarta-inch plyboard: this is what u call someone when u wan fuh call dem really magga

rass: another cuss me na feel like explaining

samdi: your son/daughter father-inlaw

sar: your wife's youngest brother

scraven: greedy

s****: another cuss me na feel like explaining

shallot: scallion

soca: all hindi coolie music

strainer: a collander

surwa: curry juice

tawah: what u mumma doez make the roti on

tegli: half white and half coolie person

ting: cute memba of the opposite sex

tnt: trinidad and tobago

wa: what?

wapya: rash on mouth

wutliss: wicked

yowri: iz an animal that me na feel fuh describez

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At the Timehri airport ceremony in 1968 for Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi, her Guyana counterpart, Prime Minister Forbes Burnham stands behind her.

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Originally posted by Petal29:
Amral/Jansher can we archive this thread and like threads with these pictures? It's worth keeping.

yes definately; i have a few more to post.

Jansher, see my suggestion. I was thinking that we could include two pictures the 170th anniversary article.

Wow! can't believe that Timehri was since 1968..any picture of the ole airport...Atkinson (sp)...

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Originally posted by BK:
Jansher, see my suggestion. I was thinking that we could include two pictures the 170th anniversary article.

These pics are not mind and cant be used. Dont take more on you will be overwhelmed.

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Originally posted by Nuff:




At the Timehri airport ceremony in 1968 for Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi, her Guyana counterpart, Prime Minister Forbes Burnham stands behind her.

This is amazing....I was born on this date and henced named after this lady.

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Originally posted by Jansher:
These pics are not mind and cant be used. Dont take more on you will be overwhelmed.

can't you get the owner's permission to use two photos in the article? or could be use it and cite the source?

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Originally posted by BK:

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Originally posted by Jansher:
These pics are not mind and cant be used. Dont take more on you will be overwhelmed.

can't you get the owner's permission to use two photos in the article? or could be use it and cite the source?

No not possible. Lets move on. HOw things

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This is amazing....I was born on this date and henced named after this lady.

Yuh giving away yuh age girl.

I always thought that was a chic picture of Indira, that's why I posted it.

Days when Indian Women wore Ornies

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Originally posted by Jansher:

This one is beautiful - there is serenity around mother and daughter.

Jansher, this last one is truly a gem. (what year was that taken?)

That's really an endearing picture. Very nice

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Originally posted by BK:
Jansher, this last one is truly a gem. (what year was that taken?)

Between 1950s

Pandit jee

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Originally posted by Jansher:
Between 1950s

do you have one with a logie?

BK, funny you said Logie, we were just talking about that this weekend. My dad was having some nostalgic memories of yester year and mentioned his grandparents living in a logie.

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Originally posted by Rosita:
BK, funny you said Logie, we were just talking about that this weekend. My dad was having some nostalgic memories of yester year and mentioned his grandparents living in a logie.

Not at all; still looking for those

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Originally posted by Rosita:
BK, funny you said Logie, we were just talking about that this weekend. My dad was having some nostalgic memories of yester year and mentioned his grandparents living in a logie.

do you guys (or any other member in your fmaily) have any picture of a logie?

Isn't that lady and child in a logie?

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Originally posted by Nuff:
Isn't that lady and child in a logie?

It could very well be so.

the mom and lil girl is soooooooooo sweet...i felt a lil tinge of something in my heart....

and the old man looks like my grat-gran nana (whom i look like...well except for the moustache/beard...mine not so prominent)

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Originally posted by chameli:
the mom and lil girl is soooooooooo sweet...i felt a lil tinge of something in my heart....

and the old man looks like my grat-gran nana (whom i look like...well except for the moustache/beard...mine not so prominent)

He is a real Pandit; as yo can see with his earrings, maybe he was at the stage of Sadhu. A life void of corruption and material needs.

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Originally posted by Rosita:

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Originally posted by Jansher:

This one is beautiful - there is serenity around mother and daughter.

Look a baca mouth

Amrita emailed me this:

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Originally posted by Jansher:

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Originally posted by chameli:
the mom and lil girl is soooooooooo sweet...i felt a lil tinge of something in my heart....

and the old man looks like my grEat-gran nana (whom i look like...well except for the moustache/beard...mine not so prominent)

He is a real Pandit; as yo can see with his earrings, maybe he was at the stage of Sadhu. A life void of corruption and material needs.

hey Janasher, no kidding, dat is the memory I have of my great gran nana! he spoke very good english but mostly hindi (he died when i was 7) but i still remember him teasing me and telling me dat I am his only great gran because i have his 'nose'

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Originally posted by chameli:

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Originally posted by Jansher:
[] corentyne berbice people like me from coolienagar knows all them hindian words.

bie, i think dat Berbice got the last batch of the indentured labourers
my great granparents were prob. from the very first batch. my nana and all his siblings were born in GY. as a matter of fact, one of my great grandma was so white with green eyes and light hair that i am convinced that she was not pure indian (and she was born in GY) she spoke very good english (she died when i was 9)

Chameli: wot u mean by "pure"? Indians of the subcontinent have several shades of eyes...and hair color. My grandad had grey...and from my own search, seems to have come from Ajmer.
A lot of what the colonialists now term afghanistan was also indian...

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Originally posted by krishna:

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Originally posted by Jansher:

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Originally posted by chameli:
Jansher dear...
dem pandit who does look like sage is de ones who does want to touch whe dem should not

i know dis pandit in Markham...ponytail pandit, all he a do a tek dem ppl money and say he a wuk jantr mantr to get things right in dem life....he is a big crook.

we had an educated and loving Pandit at Bush lot corentyne berbice, who was from India; last immigrants. Munshi pandit;they man was like a sage and not corrupted. My dad learned Hindi from his mandir.

Buss he rass if he try to touch ...me coming to the hawan

i got jarayed by that man after one of my trips to bush lot in the early 80's. i truly believed i was healed of the syptoms i had. as u see i still talk about it. some people laugh when i tell this story. auntie moon from backstreet tried to do what she had to do. but that pandit somehow worked magic, true story man.

All ayou ra55 mekking fun bout jharray etc..because of the derisive view that modern medicine takes of these people. In the first place, India had..still have ayurvedic. those jharray bwoys in many cases know psychotherapy on a different level. And while one may not subscribe to beliefs that some consider mere superstition, can you absolutely disprove the pandits' contention about evil spirits/forces? We don't see bacteria or virus. but we suffer. if one says that these can be perceived with a microscope, would the INABILITY to perceive them negate their presence? At worst, the power of autosuggestion by these jharray pundits is useful...why can we believe benny hinn, that proven fraud, can heal, and when we talk about pandits we are not so sure. Not referring to you krishna..nor any one in particular. Just ranting about the negative views we have of some good pandits.

Question: does the earring have anything denoting status as a sadhu? Or was it just an indian adornment? I am just probing...from what I understand..perhaps wrongly....the more spiritual one gets, the more trappings one leaves behind..including the earrings. Unless it is to indicate he is still functioning in the world and has not renounced it. i.e. he can still do 'services" etc...anyone has an answer not based on pure conjecture?

[QUOTE]Originally posted by dara shikoh:
Question: does the earring have anything denoting status as a sadhu? Or was it just an indian adornment? I am just probing...from what I understand..perhaps wrongly....the more spiritual one gets, the more trappings one leaves behind..including the earrings. Unless it is to indicate he is still functioning in the world and has not renounced it. i.e. he can still do 'services" etc...anyone has an

you are correct; i think at the stage of sadhu "all trappings" would have been left aside.

Kris: do you remember a man name Kasi from Bush lot, Corentyne berbice?

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Originally posted by BK:

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Originally posted by Rosita:
BK, funny you said Logie, we were just talking about that this weekend. My dad was having some nostalgic memories of yester year and mentioned his grandparents living in a logie.

do you guys (or any other member in your fmaily) have any picture of a logie?

We don't have any but I will ask my cousins - they hoarde all the pictures when my ajee died.