Wherever people from UP or Bihar go they are addressed with a slang “Bhaiya”, and dare you address them as “bhaiya” an uncanny resentment will flow out of them and will sweep you away….. but just think, why do any one from these places need to react in this manner, as per me, they should not because people from other lands are also called with some or the other peculiar name like Guajarati are called GUJJU, Marathi are called GHATIS, people from Kerala are addressed as MALLUS, Bengalis as DADA and so on and on…. So what is the big deal if people from north are addressed as BHAIYAS …. Of course there is a big-big deal and that is the monotony. One is destined to lose interest in any and every thing which does not changes over a period of time. So Just for this reason we needed a new name to our ethnicity, I am sorry I forgot to mention that I am also a proud Bhaiya from Bhaiyaland.
Recently after shifting to Goregaon with 3 very interesting guys from AP who did their graduation from BITS Pilani, I came across an even more interesting word “CHOM”. It happened once that I asked our maid to make only chapattis and no rice for me, and immediately one of them addressed me CHOM, I said wow, and asked him what did it mean, he said we used to call all the north Indian guys in our hostel ‘CHOM’, it’s because chapattis was their staple diet, and CHOM stands for CHapatti Oriented Men. I was really impressed with their assertion and felt a respite that at last I got a substitute of the perpetual term Bhaiya. He didn’t stopped there and went on elaborating the beauty of CHOM, he said the CHOMness (Affinity for Chapattis) of a person increases as we approach towards north and reaches an apogee as soon as one is in UP, then he said the CHOM states are UP, Bihar, Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan and MP and there CHOMness is supplemented with various accessories, like in UP Potatoes are a typical supplement of CHOMs, it makes their CHOMness complete, for Punjabis Butter chicken and Tandoori kebabs completes their CHOMness. They also gave a few more words derived from the root word CHOM.
CHOM – CHapatti Oriented Men
CHOMness – Affinity for Chapatti
CHOMgiri - Dadagiri
CHOMania – A south Indian chummed by North Indian
CHOMism – Traits exhibited by North Indians
CHOMophobia – Scare of North Indians
Recently after shifting to Goregaon with 3 very interesting guys from AP who did their graduation from BITS Pilani, I came across an even more interesting word “CHOM”. It happened once that I asked our maid to make only chapattis and no rice for me, and immediately one of them addressed me CHOM, I said wow, and asked him what did it mean, he said we used to call all the north Indian guys in our hostel ‘CHOM’, it’s because chapattis was their staple diet, and CHOM stands for CHapatti Oriented Men. I was really impressed with their assertion and felt a respite that at last I got a substitute of the perpetual term Bhaiya. He didn’t stopped there and went on elaborating the beauty of CHOM, he said the CHOMness (Affinity for Chapattis) of a person increases as we approach towards north and reaches an apogee as soon as one is in UP, then he said the CHOM states are UP, Bihar, Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan and MP and there CHOMness is supplemented with various accessories, like in UP Potatoes are a typical supplement of CHOMs, it makes their CHOMness complete, for Punjabis Butter chicken and Tandoori kebabs completes their CHOMness. They also gave a few more words derived from the root word CHOM.
CHOM – CHapatti Oriented Men
CHOMness – Affinity for Chapatti
CHOMgiri - Dadagiri
CHOMania – A south Indian chummed by North Indian
CHOMism – Traits exhibited by North Indians
CHOMophobia – Scare of North Indians
hahah :) you chome...thats cute terminlogy...btw gr8 work..keep the good work bhaiya
ReplyDeleteDoing well my dear Iam happy to see newer traits in u my dear. Keep it up
ReplyDeleteback in the day, circa 1990, the origin of "Chom" was ascribed to a town in Rajasthan called Chomu which allegedly had a 100% illiteracy rate. Chom wasn't applied to North Indians directly, rather, it was used as a somewhat derogatory term for those who were less urban, sophisticated, cultured and educated and who were more peasant-like and rural.
ReplyDeleteWikipedia has the literacy rate of Chomu rated a lot higher than 0%, so the origin of the word "chom" that we encountered 20 years ago is also suspect.
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomu