My friend Grace, the Bad Bhabhi, is expecting a child. In her curiosity to see what it will look like, she had a play around with a website called Morph Thing.
My curiosity got the better of me, so I decided to try it out as well. This cutie is what it came up with.
(Just for the record, we are NOT expecting)!
Here's a comparison photo.
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I HAVE to ask!
“Oh! When is it due?”
Damn, Sharell, she already looks cute!
(The child looks female to me!)
Hmmmm…. get on with it already!
Interesting, though….
Has Jiju’s eyes, light brown hair, wheatish-fair complexion, Jiju’s smile, your chin (I think!)
Nose and Ears keep on changing over the years, so we will have to actually see….
Hmmmm…. does anyone on Jiju’s side have grey eyes at all, in the past, even?
The child might have grey eyes, I think.
Lets wait for the height, too!
That’s mostly his chin. My nose. And the eyes are a bit wider than his. I don’t think anyone in his family has grey eyes… but mine are grey/blue. But yes, let’s see. I’d be happy if our child turned out like that. Almost makes me want to have one now!
I’ve uploaded a picture of the both of us to help comparison!
Ooooooh!
“Na Na bolke….”
No one’s stopping you!
Put that image as a wallpaper on your desktop, look at Jiju with those ‘bedroom eyes’ and whisper, “I want one – NOW!”
Make this Diwali memorable!
I hope for grey eyes, too!
There are a few friends who have grey eyes when their mother has ‘em while the paternal side’s all black!
Surprisingly, my family has a few people with grey eyes and a cousin grandfather with blue eyes and one uncle with green.
My present generation is light-brown eyed, except for my dark brown ones.
The inheritance of eye colour is very curious and has its set of rules, too!
Alright!
Just merge ‘em and it will look like an ‘ideal happy’ family!
By the way, a very cute couple!
But, Jiju’s more photogenic than you!
Anyway, this photo does qualify for a toothpaste ad, too!
He definitely is!
He has much better features, and poses really well.
Manny, funny, but no! I’m finding it hard enough to get the energy to keep writing now.
You can do parallel processing/Multi tasking you know. Life don’t have to be serial!
Why can’t you write a book while throwing up?
Just place a big bucket next to your chair while you click away on your computer and turn around throw up whenever.. . kind of like how desi men spit out their pawn chewyredthingiwhatcamacallit.
In a way, Sharell is pregnant!
With a book!
As the deadline approaches, ‘the baby’ in her tummy starts kicking and make her feel like throwing up anyway!
We should have insisted for twins since the beginning!
What a lovely virtual child !
But would you prefer her with grey eyes, Jayesh ?
That’s your “Indianess” speaking here !!!
Her big dark brown velvet eyes are part of her strikingly soft and beautiful face.
Anyway, the combination of grey/blue eyes and brown will always give a baby with brown eyes except if some ancestors in Sharell’s husband’s family had blue, grey or green eyes. Brown eye color is a dominant factor just like dark hair, brown skin, curly hair etc …
hey love your blog.much love very cute kid and husband and wife ahah that make a wondeful family
I am brown eyed with green speckles, my husband is blue eyed. My first born has brown eyes with grey speckles and to my great astonishment, my second child has the bluest of blue eyes! The genetic lottery is always a surprising thing.
Well, Annie, I have always been fascinated with eye colour.
Yeah, its typical Indian!
There are many fair people around, but rarely someone’s eyes are anything beyond brown!
So, someone with anything else is very ‘exotic’ to us.
Plus, I have been really jealous as a child of the eye colours of some of my relatives and friends (when I came to know that their eyes weren’t ‘defective’
)
Yeah, so when I see that Sharell’s kid has a chance of inheriting grey/hazel eyes, well I hope so.
Can’t say, even my children may inherit grey/green eyes.
Not that it matters, though!
I suffer from X-linked myopia from Aai’s side.
So have had glasses since a kid.
So, most importanrly, I don’t want glasses for my kids.
About the brown colour being dominant, that’s true but there have been rare surprises, too!
Besides they don’t control the ‘grey’, ‘hazel’ colours.
Being very fair with strawberry hair and grey/green eyes, I, unfortunatelly attract a lot of unwanted attraction in India …even at my age ( I’m in my maturity Jayesh … I belong to Sharell’s mum’s generation !!!
Believe me, it can be extremelly annoying and upsetting sometimes up to a point that my Indian friends being aware of the hassle when they are accompanying me have suggested that I alter my looks wearing for example a dark wig, color contact lenses and fake dark tan … Funny, he ? You should see how much curiosity and attention I get from the Indian ladies whenever I go to the beauty parlor or the hairdresser in Jodhpur.
When I compare myself to the Indian women, I feel very pale and certainly not beautiful as they are.
You should now that in the West, Indians are considered to be one of the most handsome people in the World.
See, we are always attracted by what is rare and very different.
For you green/blue/grey eyes are superb and me, for example, I love huge dark liquid velvet eyes , ressembling chinkaras’ eyes…
P. S.:- When I said X-linked myopia, I did NOT mean Bornholm Eye Disease!
What I meant is that I have inherited high myopia from Aai’s side, where most males have myopia! I sometimes jokingly refer to it as X-linked which also is transferred from mother to son, but has other features, too, besides being very rare and much more severe.
Hey, Annie, like I said, its the ‘exotic’ look.
I don’t like very fair girls nor very dark girls myself, if only ‘skin tone’ is considered as the only parameter!
Indian skin tone is God-send, yellowish-brown!
Indian ‘fair’ is more of a yellow tone and not many are as fair as Western Europe/Russian fair.
The people that I know of, with differnt coloured eyes, have wheatish to brown complexion and like I said, looks very exotic.
Something like Rihanna with two to three tones fairer.
Blond hair, fair skin in India is like a magnet in India!
That’s why Sharell can pass as an Anglo-Indian!
No chances for me to ever pass as an Anglo-Indian with my Celtic looks !!!
Once, commenting jokingly about my skin while looking at pictures of me taken in the company of my Indian friends, I said : I look pink on those pics ! There answer was : ” But, Annie, YOU ARE PINK !!!
However, some of my friends family members originated from Uttaranchal : they are very, very fair … and could pass easily for Europeans from Italy or Spain. Whenever we are together, people always bugged them too and are taken aback when they send them off in Hindi or Marwari !
cute, although i can’t say the same for these two
http://www.morphthing.com/baby/3494964-Baby-of-Brad-Pitt-and-Scarlett-Johansson
Oh nos!
What has I done???
I have to post on this and I will only include the best of the 647 pictures I processed (exaggeration – mild)!!
I don’t think it can at all capture the cuteness!
I can’t wait to see how it turns out!
I even did it for my Mum and Dad and their baby was soooo cute, shame it didn’t resemble the five kids they had!
I really, really went too far with this, but ehh you know I am pregnant and stuff so I can!
PS I got a domain!!
WOOHOO
http://badbhabhi.com/
I didn’t really do anything except of course for anything dodgy you see!
I can wait for the little Shadeep!
Babies and genetics are just so curious to me!
Annie said “Whenever we are together, people always bugged them too and are taken aback when they send them off in Hindi or Marwari !”
LOL. Don’t ya’ll feel safer going out with desis rather than with other ferangies in India?
Pink!
So true!
Especially those tourists travelling for the first time/after a long time in India.
I have seen many tall, sweaty, pink, tourists, with bewildered looks on their faces, sometimes with maps, wearing shorts and if with a small kid, then that child is sitting astride the father’s shoulders in South Mumbai and Bandra area.
And if its in summer, then….
Tomatoes with goggles!
Its fun to watch with how they interact here!
And if a cow is walking on the road!
They are SO HAPPY and EXCITED!
As if meeting some film actor!
Bovine papparazzi the lot of you!
Fair skin is considered attractive by many in India, not only because of its ‘exotic’ appeal, but from the long interaction with Europeans since the time of Alexander the Great, who is still, curiously, very well known as Sikander even in rural India after so many years to the recent British American exposures!
But then this topic is going on since 10, 000 B. C. in Sharell’s other post!
Hi Manny,
I’m feeling perfectly safe among my Indian friends … It’s just that I feel so sorry not only for me but also for them whenever I become a curiosity object.
To give you an example, one day we stopped in a tiny village in rural Rajasthan to buy soft drinks. I remained in the car and when my friends came back, they found… dozens of people surrounded their vehicule. Some even wanted to get a closer look at me, were leaning against the windows to get a better look at me !!!
And Jayesh, I’m certainly not to be compared with the firenze you are describing, sweating under the Indian sun and amazed at seeing cows on the street… You’ll never catch me wearing shorts or other revealing or tight fitting clothes in Rajasthan … My outfits are rajasthani : salwaar kameez, saree and poshak … And my friends and adopted family are all very proud of me and the way I’ve adapted myself to their way of life and am respectful of their culture …
And about cows, there are a few coming every day near my house.
I love them and even feed them … which by the way is considered to bring you lots of merits …
Jeez. As an Indian I am so embarrassed just reading this.
Why do we stare at westerners like that ?
I sometimes honestly day dream of some magical excavation to reveal our true indian ethos that will bring back the culture that is depicted in the sculpture and paintings of our ancient temples.
All men look like real men and all women roamed freely bare breasted and those gorgeous ancient indian outfits that befit us.
Once that happens the sexuality and sensuality of what could be truly indian would stop those people from ooogling at western women and show of any skin instead help them hold their own head high with the kind of appreciation for the beauty that you seem to suggest we possess.
I want to start a signature campaign for more nudity and skin showing in Indian garments like salwaar kamez, saree and poshak.
And indian men should stop wearing western troushers and shirts instead should wear jewellery and embroidered silk loin clothes and jaipuri shoes. Any takers ?
We will then all look like waiters at the Taj hotels!
LOL
What I described were your regular tourists, that too in Mumbai, and South Mumbai and Bandra areas!
You are hardly a tourist here (irrespective of your Visa) because you have actually LIVED here and not just physically spent a few days here.
A salwar-kameez and a sari are the best clothes to wear in India.
)
(For a woman, that is
When in Rome….
And Indian culture, if you give it chance enough, will make you fall in love with it.
Hmmmm…. Indians do enjoy a bit of attention and like to be associated with a firangi.
And like I said, Indian association with fair foreigners goes a long way back and the emotions generated are a bit complex, though fair skin is considered more of an attractive quality, in terms of beauty, societal and political heirarchy and economic standing.
So, you are, in general, percieved as someone more affluent, attractive (even at your age) and when you are dressed in an Indian way/with Indian friends generate a fair share of interest and curiosity concerning your knowledge of Indian customs and languages.
Also, reasons as to why you would like to visit a IIIrd World country (The general ‘concept’ here is the blond you are, the more richer you are and more probably of a higher social status, since blond hair is a bit rare).
Not to forget, the opportunists testing how gullible you are, especially beggars, road-side vendors etc.
Also, those with a more lecherous intentions (I say it last due to your age – might not even be relevant here!)
I too am very pleased and proud to see you in love with Indian culture enough for you to acquaint yourself so intimately with it.
That’s good!
Sharell’s seems to be back from her Sunday Family Reunion.
So we will see a new blog tommorrow.
With cool pics, no?
Genetics are whimsical in their manifestation. My parents are of average height (mother is 5′ and father 5′ 8″) by Indian standards. I’m 6′ 3″ . My wife who is Caucasian, is 5′ 4″ even though her parents are tall. Go figure.
@ JAYESH
Given the preference for fair skin. I wonder how a Black American woman would be treated in India wearing a Sari??? Any thoughts?
I must give this a try, when I get the time… time time
Oh, and you are BOTH gorgeous.
Too cute! This time last year we were waiting with baited breath to see what our baby would look like too. We are also an interracial couple – me blue-eyed, white American and husband Indian. Our baby had light grey eyes for the first 6 months of her life, now they have slowly darkened and I think they will end up brown. Her skin tone is lighter than I anticipated, closer to mine than my husband’s. She has his beautiful dark hair. She tuned out just perfect!
Hey, Charie, that’s an interesting question!
Actually, whenever I hear that a westerner wearing a saree, my first reaction is to brace myself!
Reason? Not everyone can carry off a saree well!
Wearing a sari takes:-
Practice.
Patience.
Familiarity.
Someone who is wearing for the first time, requires an assistance of a person who regularly wears a sari, herself!
Besides, during ‘Traditional Day’ in my college I have seen good looking girls, who look stunningly beautiful in western outfits look stunningly horrifying (and funny!) wearing saris.
Here are some links:-
Madonna, Serena and Venus Williams are looking well, like ‘drag queens’ while they look beautiful in Western outfits. Even Jelena Janocic makes me hold a breath at her manly stance! (Please no offense meant, its just how they are looking in these pics!
While Nicole Scherzinger looks so sexy!
http://sareedreams.com/2008/03/serena-and-venus-williams-tennis-stars-in-saree/
http://www.fungur.com/hollywood-celebrities-wearing-sarees/
And look at Sharell!
She carries the sari so well!
She looks so beautiful because the sari enhances her feminine beauty as a sari can.
As to how a ‘black’ American wearing a sari will be treated?
[My favourite term for 'black' is the one used in Marathi:- 'Krishna-varniya' which means 'Of the skin colour of Lord Krishna'
eg. "Obama hey U. S.che pahile Krishnavarniya Rashtrapati ahet."
Obama is the first 'black' 'Husband-of-the-Country' i. e. President (since the country is considered 'the wife' and the citizens as 'the children!') of the U. S.]
Assuming she is carrying off well then the usual questions arise in the mind:-
Surprise.
Curiosity.
From where is she?
Why?
But if you are looking like a dusky Indian woman you won’t be given a second look unless you are looking very good, like Bipasha Basu!
However, any foreigner in a sari should not stand alone, on a lonely road, especially at night! :-O
Thing is, people don’t associate African Americans with the U. S. A., except in the metros and the Tourist destinations.
So, you are less likely to be mobbed.
But be ready for your share of attention and stares!
You won’t be spared that!
We Indian men (and many women) stare at all women and especially at good looking women!
Staring is the National Passtime in India and everyone, irrespective of age, sex likes to stare, whenever we get a chance and especially when no one’s looking.
Thanks for your explanations and comments of appreciation, Jayesh !
There are so many different ways to tie a saree … and the way a woman has tied it, even identifies the area of India she is coming from …
I love to wear a saree tied Gujrati style … but I still do need my friend Nirmal’s help for she is a recognized expert among her peers for tying a sari that way … It’s a very flattering dress indeed … makes you feel different and … beautiful.
I think it requires years of practice to tie a saree properly … even some of my Indian friends still experience difficulties sometimes… as some fabrics made it more difficult than others for example …
Please, Sharell, would you write a review on how to wear a saree, the different kinds of the saree, how to buy the appropriate kind, ethnic sarees, chiffon sarees, silk sarees, designer sarees etc …
I think lots of your readers would be interested …
@JAYESH-
Thanks for the feedback. I think Michelle Obama would look beautiful in a Sari. I remember the dress she wore at the State dinner for PM Manmohan Singh. It was the creation of an Indian designer.
@Jayesh-Naomi Campbell in a Sari
http://sareedreams.com/2009/03/naomi-campbell-in-a-saree-sari-design/
Naomi carried it off well!
Michelle Obama is very gracefull.
I think she can carry it off well.
I mean, she can dance like an Indian heroine so well!
Hi,
you know, i kind of find the union between a white woman and a Indian Man quite “weird” and surprising. I saw your pic with ur hubby and was wondering if you would had posed like this before 1947, your hubby would had been probably killed. i wonder why they never use to allow us to marry white women in British India. Thank god Things have changed a lot now.
Best of Luck for the Future, Cheers
I have that there is historic reason for that. THere is book called white mughals that I read last year that talks about how for 100 years there were several white britishers who lived like a nawab or indian maharaja complete with harems and indian wives.
In fact there was a sizeable amount of anglo indian population but something happened after the american independance and later the indian mutiny of 1957. The british monarchy apparently did not want to repeat the same mistake in the american colonies where the white rules settle down and then go native.
THey strictly forbid mingling with locals and kept the races seperate with particularly strong viciousness. Thats the reason they also decided to introduce english education in india so that they can create a elite of english speaking indians that they can use to administer the empire without having to intermarry and mix the races that might one day turn local and challenge the authority of the british monarchy.
Its a totally different model of governance than what the spanish did in latin america or the portuguese did in brazil. There the whites were treated like sperm factories and told to create mixed race babies that were given land rights and powers to govern depending on if you 100% white, half white, quarter white and so on and so forth. Obviously if you have no white blood because you are a native indian or a african slave you have no right other than to be chained and work in the plantation.
A whole different model of colonisation that thank god the british decide not to follow and just frowned up inter-racial marriages.
A minor correction in the above post. I meant Indian mutiny of 1857 not 1957.