Comments on: Let’s get ready to dawat http://www.lungis.com/wordpress/2007/03/17/lets-get-ready-to-dawat/ original layout coming soon Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:48:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: habiba khan http://www.lungis.com/wordpress/2007/03/17/lets-get-ready-to-dawat/#comment-7 habiba khan Sat, 17 Mar 2007 14:18:59 +0000 http://www.lungis.com/wordpress/2007/03/17/lets-get-ready-to-dawat/#comment-7 i just went to a bengali dawaat. twas the shizzit i just went to a bengali dawaat. twas the shizzit

]]> By: sonia http://www.lungis.com/wordpress/2007/03/17/lets-get-ready-to-dawat/#comment-8 sonia Sat, 17 Mar 2007 16:33:52 +0000 http://www.lungis.com/wordpress/2007/03/17/lets-get-ready-to-dawat/#comment-8 heh heh spot on analysis! yep the diasporic, expat angle to this is really crucial to understanding how important it is. i have memories like yours when i was growing up here and there. somehow the bengalis would manage to find each other and just being bengali was enough to ensure a connection! my sister always hated being dragged along because of the huge difficulties in working out what small talk to make to aunties when you're a teeenager! i heh heh spot on analysis! yep the diasporic, expat angle to this is really crucial to understanding how important it is. i have memories like yours when i was growing up here and there. somehow the bengalis would manage to find each other and just being bengali was enough to ensure a connection! my sister always hated being dragged along because of the huge difficulties in working out what small talk to make to aunties when you’re a teeenager! i

]]> By: Guava http://www.lungis.com/wordpress/2007/03/17/lets-get-ready-to-dawat/#comment-9 Guava Sat, 17 Mar 2007 16:43:23 +0000 http://www.lungis.com/wordpress/2007/03/17/lets-get-ready-to-dawat/#comment-9 Very nice! I look forward to the eventual (Spanish language) publication of your dissertation on diasporic dawats. In kind of a coincidence, my younger brother is also studying somewhere in el mundo hispano this year. Please advise...how to pronounce dawat? Does it rhyme with what? Very nice! I look forward to the eventual (Spanish language) publication of your dissertation on diasporic dawats.

In kind of a coincidence, my younger brother is also studying somewhere in el mundo hispano this year.

Please advise…how to pronounce dawat? Does it rhyme with what?

]]> By: The Jolly Bengali http://www.lungis.com/wordpress/2007/03/17/lets-get-ready-to-dawat/#comment-12 The Jolly Bengali Sat, 17 Mar 2007 18:33:31 +0000 http://www.lungis.com/wordpress/2007/03/17/lets-get-ready-to-dawat/#comment-12 Guava: I think I could have written a thirty page research paper without doing any actual research. Actually, I thought that this would be a good dissertation topic. Dawat is pronounced ¨da-waat.¨ Guava:
I think I could have written a thirty page research paper without doing any actual research. Actually, I thought that this would be a good dissertation topic.

Dawat is pronounced ¨da-waat.¨

]]> By: Asif http://www.lungis.com/wordpress/2007/03/17/lets-get-ready-to-dawat/#comment-13 Asif Sat, 17 Mar 2007 21:48:53 +0000 http://www.lungis.com/wordpress/2007/03/17/lets-get-ready-to-dawat/#comment-13 Haha, I was the same way during my Asian experiences. It was so much easier to relate to other Americans than it was with locals. Once, we held an Coco Puff party with our American friends cuz we missed cereal so much. So, you gonna hold a Cheeseburger Dawat in Argentina? Haha, I was the same way during my Asian experiences. It was so much easier to relate to other Americans than it was with locals. Once, we held an Coco Puff party with our American friends cuz we missed cereal so much. So, you gonna hold a Cheeseburger Dawat in Argentina?

]]> By: sadiq http://www.lungis.com/wordpress/2007/03/17/lets-get-ready-to-dawat/#comment-14 sadiq Sat, 17 Mar 2007 22:22:13 +0000 http://www.lungis.com/wordpress/2007/03/17/lets-get-ready-to-dawat/#comment-14 welcome back baby.. . welcome back baby.. .

]]> By: The Jolly Bengali http://www.lungis.com/wordpress/2007/03/17/lets-get-ready-to-dawat/#comment-15 The Jolly Bengali Sun, 18 Mar 2007 17:19:11 +0000 http://www.lungis.com/wordpress/2007/03/17/lets-get-ready-to-dawat/#comment-15 A cheeseburger dawat does sound good... A cheeseburger dawat does sound good…

]]> By: Nafisa http://www.lungis.com/wordpress/2007/03/17/lets-get-ready-to-dawat/#comment-18 Nafisa Tue, 20 Mar 2007 05:42:28 +0000 http://www.lungis.com/wordpress/2007/03/17/lets-get-ready-to-dawat/#comment-18 I definitely took those dawats for granted back in the day. Nowadays, I remember those nights when someone would "happen to have" some tablas or a harmonium in the trunk and we would stay up till ungodly hours singing songs in Bangla and Hindi. Perhaps I romanticize now, but then, who can't help but romanticize these things just a little? We Bengalis know how to adda. I definitely took those dawats for granted back in the day. Nowadays, I remember those nights when someone would “happen to have” some tablas or a harmonium in the trunk and we would stay up till ungodly hours singing songs in Bangla and Hindi. Perhaps I romanticize now, but then, who can’t help but romanticize these things just a little? We Bengalis know how to adda.

]]> By: Mahdi http://www.lungis.com/wordpress/2007/03/17/lets-get-ready-to-dawat/#comment-25 Mahdi Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:08:27 +0000 http://www.lungis.com/wordpress/2007/03/17/lets-get-ready-to-dawat/#comment-25 I go to dawats to hit on the aunties. I go to dawats to hit on the aunties.

]]> By: The Jolly Bengali http://www.lungis.com/wordpress/2007/03/17/lets-get-ready-to-dawat/#comment-27 The Jolly Bengali Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:14:38 +0000 http://www.lungis.com/wordpress/2007/03/17/lets-get-ready-to-dawat/#comment-27 Hahahaha. That's the best comment yet! Hahahaha. That’s the best comment yet!

]]> By: sonia http://www.lungis.com/wordpress/2007/03/17/lets-get-ready-to-dawat/#comment-29 sonia Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:01:26 +0000 http://www.lungis.com/wordpress/2007/03/17/lets-get-ready-to-dawat/#comment-29 it is isn't it - what would the aunties think! *shock* it is isn’t it - what would the aunties think! *shock*

]]> By: Sarah http://www.lungis.com/wordpress/2007/03/17/lets-get-ready-to-dawat/#comment-416 Sarah Thu, 17 May 2007 16:52:56 +0000 http://www.lungis.com/wordpress/2007/03/17/lets-get-ready-to-dawat/#comment-416 your family is from ctg? or were you just saying that there's something *wrong* with being chittagongi? :P (bc that's a mean thing to do ... and yes, i'm from ctg :P) if your family *is* from ctg, then cool :) surprisingly i've never gone through this whole dawat thing in the US... probably bc i live in a predominantly white town haha your family is from ctg? or were you just saying that there’s something *wrong* with being chittagongi? :P (bc that’s a mean thing to do … and yes, i’m from ctg :P) if your family *is* from ctg, then cool :)
surprisingly i’ve never gone through this whole dawat thing in the US… probably bc i live in a predominantly white town haha

]]> By: The Jolly Bengali http://www.lungis.com/wordpress/2007/03/17/lets-get-ready-to-dawat/#comment-417 The Jolly Bengali Fri, 18 May 2007 15:59:21 +0000 http://www.lungis.com/wordpress/2007/03/17/lets-get-ready-to-dawat/#comment-417 Nope. My mom is from Dhaka, and my Dad is from Comilla. Ha ha, I just felt like using Chittagong as an example. Nothing more. I've been to a lot of dawats, but I've always lived in places with tiny Bangladeshi communities! Nope. My mom is from Dhaka, and my Dad is from Comilla. Ha ha, I just felt like using Chittagong as an example. Nothing more. I’ve been to a lot of dawats, but I’ve always lived in places with tiny Bangladeshi communities!

]]> By: Desi Baba http://www.lungis.com/wordpress/2007/03/17/lets-get-ready-to-dawat/#comment-437 Desi Baba Mon, 28 May 2007 04:13:51 +0000 http://www.lungis.com/wordpress/2007/03/17/lets-get-ready-to-dawat/#comment-437 Man i love dawats, but I miss em since I don't go to them anymore. Good job explaining in details Hasan, keep it up. Man i love dawats, but I miss em since I don’t go to them anymore. Good job explaining in details Hasan, keep it up.

]]> By: Lemoncupcake23 http://www.lungis.com/wordpress/2007/03/17/lets-get-ready-to-dawat/#comment-3723 Lemoncupcake23 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:50:03 +0000 http://www.lungis.com/wordpress/2007/03/17/lets-get-ready-to-dawat/#comment-3723 Awesome entry, I actually linked to this post from my own blog, hope that's cool. Awesome entry, I actually linked to this post from my own blog, hope that’s cool.

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