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What is more offensive and derogatory – a name that is spoken with some affection though sometimes with ignorance wrapped around, or the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Shiv+Sena">Shiv Sena</a> asking Biharis, workers from UP and Gujarati businessmen to leave their ‘amchi Mumbai’? Or people in J&amp;K, the NE, and a few other regions calling you ‘Indian’ when you go to these places as tourists? Or the Government in the Centre giving step-motherly treatment to governments in the States and UTs that are under the rule of some other political party? Or the <keyword id="6356116" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="LG">LG</keyword> of <keyword id="66" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Delhi">Delhi</keyword> saying he is the government in Delhi? Or contest losers on twitter calling me ‘buddha’ and asking me to leave some contest winnings for them? Or words like ‘bong’, ‘punju’, ‘gujju’, ‘madrasi’, ‘sambhar’, ‘<keyword id="1626067" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Chinky">chinky</keyword>’, ‘<keyword id="2959948" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Thulla">thulla</keyword>’, ‘<keyword id="1256925" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="tambi">tambi</keyword>’, and ‘sulla’ directed towards people from one community or the other? 
 Let me first tell you about an incident that I remember from my days in the <keyword id="120637" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Indian-Military-Academy">Indian Military Academy</keyword> where we had a sikh friend who was in our course but a couple of years elder and had streaks of grey hair. To top it all he was fond of staying away from pranks and troubles and was forever talking about ethics and remaining on the good side of the law. At some stage someone must have called him ‘buds’ which is like calling a 20-something a grandpa. No, I never called him buds but I did wonder then, as I do now, if there was anything offensive in the word. Most of us loved him and so buds as a form of address reflected affection. But this sikh Gentleman Cadet, despite all his wise outpourings was invariably peeved and did not appreciate his being called buds. I haven’t met him after we left the IMA and so I hope he either got acclimatised to this pet name, if I may call it that… or people just stopped calling him buds in his regiment. 
 
If you think this kind of renaming happens only in India, look beyond our borders and hear ‘paki’, ‘negro’, ‘nigger’, or declared slurs like ‘bin laden’, ‘jehadi, and ‘cabbie’ for Arabs, or ‘jew’ during the nazi heydays, or ‘nazi’ now, or ‘bindi’, ‘desi’, and ‘patel’ for Indians, or ‘dubya’ and ‘jarhead’ for Americans, ‘bubba’, ‘pus’, and ‘gora’ for the whites, ‘nacho’ and ‘taco’ for the Spanish… so from ‘Alibaba’ to ‘zipperhead’ our world is full of interesting innuendoes that need not necessarily spend their lives being calibrated as offensive words. 
 
These are the words that have made life just so much more interesting and injected with laughter… banning them or shunning them is like Modi taking offense to his 56 inch chest quote getting pulled apart and minced to prove some point or the other. 
 The other day <keyword id="260213" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Arvind-Kejriwal">Arvind Kejriwal</keyword> referred to the Delhi policeman as a ‘thulla’ and everyone from Bassi to the media howled with displeasure. Come on, we’ve all had umpteen names for Kejriwal and ‘aaptards’ for his party is probably more known than even ‘thulla’. I decided to know more about the word ‘thulla’ and the first interesting derivation was offered by the <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/brfdictionary/glossary/t/thulla">BRFDictionary</a> on the net that said: “The term is used to denote a stereotypical slow moving police constable with a big gut. The origin of this term has to do with the word for a sack made of jute fiber, which is "thula" in some languages in the Eastern part of India. As it happens, police constables in many states in India are issued a brown starched uniform that looks like it was made from a sack. Hence the word for "jute sack" was morphed into slang for "police".” By the way, our policemen aren’t just ‘thullas’ but are also ‘mamas’ and ‘pandus’… and our <keyword id="143" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Bollywood">Bollywood</keyword> movies make sure that we don’t ever forget these dear words. The online dictionary for Hindi words was predictably less brave and avoided any reference to this word which is ridiculous because the word is as much a part of the language as any other and deserves a place in history… I mean, do we just let lovely and much used (sometimes abused) words fade away and disappear? 
 
I don’t think it is great idea to go guns blazing at all these forms of address that we classify as slur words… let them live their lives, accept them, and soon enough you’ll know that like ‘Uncle Tom’, ‘spook’, and ‘shine’ every word becomes a part of the glorious history of civilization. 
 
The story of Chinky, Thulla, and Tambi is as interesting as is the story behind any other word in any other language and thus needs to be kept alive.

The story of Chinky, Thulla, and Tambi

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">J. Rose/Netflix"Keith Richards: Under the Influence."</div></div></div>With September upon us it's time to check in once again on the new movies and TV shows coming to Netflix.One of the highlights is the documentary on Rolling Stones legend Keith Richards coming in the middle of the month.Here's what you should check out on Netflix in September:TV<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Gene Page/AMC"The Walking Dead."</div></div></div>"The League" (Season 6) - Available 9/1 Fantasy football tackles reality in this semi-scripted look at a group of longtime friends whose annual hobby gives them an excuse to get together and escape their everyday lives in a blitz of trash-talking, deceit and ruthless extortion. "The Walking Dead" (Season 5) - Available 9/27 In the wake of a zombie apocalypse that desolates the world as we know it, a group of survivors led by police officer Rick Grimes holds on to the hope of humanity by banding together to wage a never-ending fight for their own survival.Movies<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Columbia Pictures"Lawrence of Arabia."</div></div></div>"Lawrence of Arabia: Restored Version" - Available 9/1 This Oscar-winning epic tells the true story of T.E. Lawrence, who helped unite warring Arab tribes to strike back against the Turks in World War I. "Moonrise Kingdom" - Available 9/16 Wes Anderson's quirky drama follows the frantic search that ensues in a small New England town when two 12-year-olds fall in love and run away together. As the townsfolk hunt for the vanished kids, a storm causes even more profound communal upheaval."Keith Richards: Under the Influence" (NETFLIX ORIGINAL) - Available 9/18 This Netflix original documentary is unparalleled in its access as it looks at one of the architects of rock 'n' roll music. The film charts the journey of Keith Richards' sound and influences, back to the music that inspired him then and now - electric blues, country honky-tonk, southern soul, and more - as he creates his first solo album in 23 years. Here's the full list of September releases:Available 9/1/15 "72 Dangerous Animals: Australia:" (Season 1) "Arthur" (Season 17) "Avengers Confidential: Black Widow &amp; Punisher" "Battle Creek" (Season 1) "Blackbird" "Capital C" "Combustion" "Da Jammies" (Season 1) "Divorce Corp." "Giggle and Hoot's Best Ever!" "Hamlet" "Hardball" "Heather McDonald: I Don't Mean To Brag" "Lawrence of Arabia: Restored Version" "Los hombres tambie´n lloran" (Season 1) "Masters of the Universe" "Mississippi Damned" "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: Volume 1" "Mouk" (Season 1) "Our Man in Tehran" "Pandas: The Journey Home" "Person of Interest" (Seasons 1-3) *Season 4 arriving on 9/22 "Puffin Rock" (Season 1) (NETFLIX ORIGINAL) "Rambo: First Blood" "Rambo: First Blood Part II" "Rambo III: Ultimate Edition" "Shake the Dust" "Sleepy Hollow" "Such Good People" "The Adventures of Sharkboy &amp; Lavagirl" "The League" (Season 6) "The Monster Squad" "Up in the Air" "Zathura" "Zoo Clues" (Season 1) Available 9/2/15 "Black or White" "Miss Julie" ?Available 9/3/15"Drumline: A New Beat"Available 9/4/15"Baby Daddy" (Season 4) "Bad Night" "Madame Secretary" (Season 1) "Melissa &amp; Joey" (Season 4)Available 9/7/15"Space Dandy" (Season 2)Available 9/8/15"6 Years" (NETFLIX EXCLUSIVE) "Love At First Fight"Available 9/9/15"Teen Beach Movie 2"Available 9/10/15"Fugitivos" (Season 1) "Longmire" (Season 4) (NETFLIX ORIGINAL)Available 9/11/15"About Elly" "God Bless the Child" "Madame Bovary"Available 9/12/15 "It Happened Here" "Portlandia" (Season 5) "The Roughnecks" ????? 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