Barça Diwali
Sandhya Nankani blogged this clip of her cousin’s kids being interviewed in Barcelona. I can’t figure out what’s cooler, that so many desis picked up a pukka Catalán accent, or that the kids actually comprehend Diwali, ¿vale? Trilingualism gets me hot and bothered.
on Tuesday, December 4th, 2007, 8:20 pm in Diwali, Holidays, Religion, Spain, TV, Video clips › 
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Dude me and my sis grew up in PR. What do you think pukka Puerto Rican accent — the ebonics to the Spanish language.
What industries are Ibero-desis employed in ? Are they primarily expat Brit-Indians or is this a community that came directly from the desh ?
Chaat = Indian tapas. I wonder if there is a chaat shop on the Ramblas
is it me or does el guapo at 2:10 look like a Jindal twin?
I knew it - the MC had to be Sindhi :-D
Shlok: Hard knock life indeed. Did you grow up dancing salsa? What a gift that would’ve been.
Louie: the ones I met in Barcelona were mostly Punjabi from the desh, and were tapas fry cooks (on Las Ramblas) and street vendors selling t-shirts and flowers. But front-line customer service are the kind of folks you’re apt to bump into on the street.
glad you’re all enjoying the video as much as I did!
bhavesh - yup, most of the indians featured in this video are sindhi, at least all my relatives are - but more as well. there’s a pretty substantial community there.
louiecypher - many are from bombay originally, or other parts of the diaspora, including morocco or other parts of africa. they are small business owners, working in the electronics/game business. one of my uncles has a business on the ramblas http://www.saimaya.com that has indian/spiritual goods (books, statues, etc) as well as video games etc. as for whether there’s a chaat shop in barcelona :) i’ll ask and find out!
oh my, so cute. I have nephews and nieces qui habites en Paris, and their franco-gujju accents are just too adorable.
New contenders for coolest desis in the diaspora. They wear Barcelona football shirts, worship Ronaldinho, and the other kid wears an India cricket shirt. And be still my beating heart. When I first met Indian girls with American accents my heart went a flutter. I also met Indian girls from Scandinavia and France. But Spanish Indian girls speaking Spanish, oh my gosh.
Haha! No, I learned to pop-lock-and-drop-it in Jersey.
No chaat on Las Ramblas, but you can find it down the back streets in the area.
Multi-ethnic street vendors and Sindhi businessmen, who else?
Where there is money to be made, there’ll be a Sindhi - Canary Islands, Dutch Antilles, Panama etc…
Hey! That video is too cute. Indian kids speaking Spanish, interpreting an Indian festival to a Spanish speaking TV audience. Great example of the new generation desi immigrant who has the ability to integrate with the host country and be a credit to both cultures.