i can't decide what's worse?

Enough of the gawking at scantily clad women...

or the fact that the questions these men answer are for the most part superficial like that 'salary range' question.

now THIS is my idea of online dating. Though our male mutineers could some of those blokes to shame, much thanks for the afternoon eye candy, Naina. We'll wait for the US based glossies to follow suit.

or the fact that the questions these men answer are for the most part superficial like that 'salary range' question.

Its ok, dude. Women have an equal right to be superficial. ;)

What's superficial about salary range? I mean how is it more superficial than looks?

sakshi, Kurma

i'm not saying one is more superficial than the other. they're equally. i'm simply putting both this project and desiclub.com's south asian bikini calendar in the same category. if one is acceptable, then so should be the other.

Heh. Nothing like a little male objectification to get the week off to a good start! :)

um. yes. so anyone up for moving to the UK and snagging some bachelors with me?

A pinup boy. Personally I could care less how much money he makes or what he drives or for that matter whether he has a sense of humor or considers himself an 'arsehole'. Not like I'm looking to marry any of em. Why not just give me a bunch of hot pictures I can drool at and inject my own fantasies on how I want him to be? The superficial application of "biodatas" is worse than tacky. It's insulting my horny intelligence.

shlok,

I'm not advocating we gawk at these men instead of the women; it was just a tongue and cheek comment. I shared this bit of info with sepia, because I thought it would be fun for the women to see some hot South Asian men, and I was also interested in seeing where the debate would take us regarding the double standards some people seem to hold.

Ah, the inexorable march towards Sepia Destiny.

thanks naina... that was a timely distraction!

love it.

we're all intelligent women, so we're not going to put these lads up on a pedestal or anything. but it's nice to look at an array of good looking desi men once in a while...

Sorry Naina, but yourself and said true monkeys in dat dere cage weren't really picking. Judging by the looks I would have to go with :
Gurmit Samra (who then had to spoil it with "Favourite thing about women: Elegance, patience and the kind of emotional strength us mere mortal men can only worship" - pleeaaassee...)
Inder Sanghera (who then had to spoil it with "Secret romance weapon: Treat her like a lady")
I stopped around #25.
JOAT,
how did any of these guys even tickle your horny intelligence? they uniformly(stats of two) seem to think that treating women like their mothers is gonna lead somewhere. now mr. crumb, thats something else.:-)

thank you naina! that was 50 clicks of scrumptious. and just imagine, they also have that whole cute british accent thing going for them!!!

now...we need an umreekan counterpart. south asian american women's magazines are you hearing me?!

Couldn't help noticing - but are all the Southie men in London married?

Naina, thanks for the Sunday afternoon diversion.

now...we need an umreekan counterpart. south asian american women's magazines are you hearing me?!

Bibi Magazine, a Houston-based South Asian women's magazine, puts together a similar feature.

Perfect skin on a guy really bugs me.... I need some scruff, some dirt, slight leathering from a lifetime of being manly... Am I alone on this?

At first, I was thinking "where are all the desi doctors and engineers"? And then it hit me...so not the point. So I just drooled the rest of the way through.

Espressa....I hear ya...I love me an man w/ some durrt!

double standards some people seem to hold.

double standards? what double standards? we all objectify, though perhaps to varying degrees. From my quick glance through the profiles, the majority of the guys seemed on the "lighter" shade of things. What...no posts by the men or women about the inaccurate representation of desis with too few Southies shown?

Couldn't help noticing - but are all the Southie men in London married?

thank you pooja!

JOAT, how did any of these guys even tickle your horny intelligence? they uniformly(stats of two) seem to think that treating women like their mothers is gonna lead somewhere. now mr. crumb, thats something else.:-)

My whole point was please spare me their thoughts, stats and other mundane crap I don't care for. Just give me pictures and some topless ones please! And since I'm older I stopped when I got to my first 23 year old which was I think 3 or 5 deep. Please can we have some men and not boys.

From my quick glance through the profiles, the majority of the guys seemed on the "lighter" shade of things.

Are we seriously going to go there again? I don't think I can take it again in such a short span of time. And from what I saw there were brown men, easily distinguishable by their varying shades of brown including chocolate. Light, makeup and very obvious retouching work can make anyone look "light".

@No Desh I already did! Though I daresay I wasnt thinking in terms of skin colour then...

as you stated, I didn't think you were going for the skin color angle.

Are we seriously going to go there again?

No, we don't have to go there. But I did find it funny that on the last post about the female bikini calendar, many people were up in arms over the skin tones/unfair representation, whereas that has been minimal on the male calendar.

male calendar

That should've read "male piece"

I’m all for the objectification of beautiful brown men

wow. sexual objectification has become like free markets. everyones doing it. my work here at sepia is almost done.

no desh, regarding the unfair representation, i was struck by how none of the turbanned sikh males in the "hot 50" had their full facial hair. a sort of demasculation of the sikh male ideal to me, but the classic "pretty boy" look, i suppose. but i'm not the editor! but ya, you're right, not many guys with a "darker" look either.

this type of objectification of males is flippant, but, with your example of the bikini calendar, we saw women in a state of un-dress, without any other substance to themselves. if we get equivalent types of objectification, i think we can have a more substantive debate on the merits/demerits of comparative objectification.

and anyways, when i was clicking through, i wasn't LOOKING at the GUYS, i was checking out what kind of car they drove. :p

Only the absolute dregs of British Asian society appear in this. I would never, EVER be caught dead in it.

Apart from last year.

(Was that subtle or what? And no, I'm not scanning it in. My Mum's laminated the page and hung it above our front door with neon lights around it. Probably.)

And no, I'm not scanning it in.

And why not? You can't dangle that (no pun intended) and then not do it!!

bong breaker,

Seriously? You have got to scan it in. MUST.

Didn't like the Bibi Men, since they all had to be famous. Asiana at least took time out to troll the streets of Southall for sexyness.

Translation: I want a woman to like me for me. But in case any of you are wondering, I drive a BMW. I’ve also beaten up a woman. Call me.

I dunno' about their sense of humor Naina, but you sure have a great one :).

"I’m all for the objectification of beautiful brown men". -- ROFL

The biggest pretty boy orgy, ever. Sigh. Where have all the cowboys gone?

Naina this is awesome! I've been calling for hot boys on sepia for years! Maybe my "Topless Turbanned Hotties" (TM) calendar will finally find some traction (Ennis?)

To be fair, though, there haven't been as many posts on hot desi chicks since Manish left. Hmm.

BB I won't believe it until I see it. So, you know, get scanning...

BongBreaker, are you sure it was last year and you're not actually Kamran Saha, trainee surgeon?

Ugh. Why do all those dudes look like narcissists? Aren't there any hot Indian rugged guys they could have used in their calendar? Or some kind self-deprecating programmer? Why do the dudes that are featured all have to be such gross snobs?

I thought the mean age would be something like late twenties to early thirties...not early twenties...

Are brown women seriously into teenage-looking 22-year olds which shaped eyebrows with cuts through them?

Why do the dudes that are featured all have to be such gross snobs?

Yeah I thought that was pretty twisted myself. Most of them are too into themselves to notice anyone else much less a woman and so many had no problem coming across as assholes and confident assholes to boot.

I thought the mean age would be something like late twenties to early thirties...not early twenties...

Me too. Where are the grown men that don't say dumb shit if you must make me read shit they have to say?

Are brown women seriously into teenage-looking 22-year olds which shaped eyebrows with cuts through them?

NO not this one. Give me a hairy Bob Vila type any day. I can make him metrosexual if I want to. Most of these boys look like they'd compete with the woman over mirror time.

Are brown women seriously into teenage-looking 22-year olds which shaped eyebrows with cuts through them?

ahh, the "scar"? I believe that's for an added "bad boy" effect. Narcissism is an amazing thing, yaar?

We're smirking more than ogling, John.

Their answers read a bit like generic aphorisms or just self-congratulatory pats on the back (i.e. You’d take a girl on a first date to… Heaven, where else? Hahahaha!). I can't tell whether they are joking or not-- if they're joking, I think they've got a great sense of humor. If they're not, maybe a bit delusional then, but either way it cracks me up=)

seriously, though, it works... as soon as I started anal-retentively scultping my facial hair, the ms. started paying a whole lot more attention to me. the ones who know.... know.

If attention=horror....then, sure.

Aiyo cicatrix, if his face can afford it, let him get sideburns (but keep the face shaved). z0mg! I love sideburns on desi guys... *sigh* my TA... hai bhagwan, I'm going to faint.

Are the fellow-mutineers getting too critical? Maybe the "best looking people at capitol hill" had generated same comments?

Hey! Where are the men w/ sherwanis!? I LOOOOVE those outfits! As for the juvenile comments they made...
ROFLMAO

YUMMY!!!

13, 14 and 26 are pretty cute - I'm a sucker for a guy who says he likes to cook...and is proud of taking public transport.

The guys who say "I can be arrogant or cocky" like they're proud of it are just eww. And what is with the pencil-line-thin beards, ewwwwwww. There seem to be a fair number who look like they should be dating each other, a bit tooo pretty.

I thought the mix of skintones was much wider than it would have been for...say, Indian women celebs. I personally find darker men more attractive, so that's right up my alley.

I must say I'm pleasantly surprised by the overall hottie quotient.

overly groomed, and too many clothes (must have equal parity with bikini calendar to be fair)

Ladies, don't cry, but these features tend to be stitch-ups featuring the editor's friends. I had 3 friends on the list one year, 2 of whom have fiancees and another who was in a relationship. I've only met two of the guys on this year's list, but both of them have girlfriends. They only define "bachelor" as "not actually legally married." ;) So I imagine Bong Breaker will finally make the list next year, to peals of laughter from his SO... ;)

So I admit that I flipped through the first few pictures on the web site and then I just couldn't take it anymore because a)I'm a heterosexual male, and b) these guys seem to personify my objections to certain elements of desi culture.

Here's my question to the group. In most beauty pageants, for lack of a better phrase, that feature women, the "contestants" at least pretend to some altruistic elements to their personality. I was surprised that there were no activists/public servant save-the-world types in the 10 or so pages I flipped through. Does this have anything to do with the fact that these are profiles of men, or am I reading too much into something that shouldn't be taken at all seriously? It seemed to be little more than a big d**k-waving contest.

All I can say is that desimen really need to bulk up.

I was surprised that there were no activists/public servant save-the-world types in the 10 or so pages I flipped through. Does this have anything to do with the fact that these are profiles of men, or am I reading too much into something that shouldn't be taken at all seriously? It seemed to be little more than a big d**k-waving contest.

Sriram - right on. It probably has something to do with the fact that good looks + money + nice car are seen as the appropriate Lowest Common Denominator appeal to Average Janes, plus the usual stigmatization of "soft" professions for desi men. Wonder if it would be similar for desis in the US, I get the sense (from SM and from the NYC desi crowd) that do-gooders are rather more acceptable for the second gen of desis there.

Could also just be the stupid "personals" format, with its emphasis on questions that evoke the silly "walking on a beach at sunset" sort of line rather than asking people what they do and what's important to them in life.

Wow.. what a way to start a Monday.
Agree with Jane - some were too young to be take seriously.

However, like watevz said - they've got that British accent thing going on! I like one guy who answered salary with "enough noughts to be naughty" -- I have to stop and think about a nought.

Anyway, I liked the suits, saxophones and sharp photography -- would def prefer this over the swimsuits. The salary question was cheesy, but it actually shows a lot of character on how they answered it.

#5 - hehe

"Biggest vice Thai food. It’s to, um, thai for…"

All I can say is that desimen really need to bulk up.

Slim and trim is ideal AMfD, primarily influenced by futbol. Our ideal is likewise influenced by our dominant sports. I noticed this when I went to the gym when I lived there- the upper body equipment, especially the heavy free weights, aren't used often. I asked why and "you dun need that for footy" was the reply.

I noticed how all their dream dates involved hollywood stars. No brits and no desis in their fantasies.

Is Ribu Tharakan is the only malu bachelor in there? And he is # fitty! :-p

Can Bombay Dost come out with one of these lists for "the gays?" Yes, we can drool over Asiana's ist as well, but I'm sure there's also a market for the other... no? But would they find 50 so willing to be publicly outed?

Hmmm.
I need to call these guys and get the phone # for their microdermabrasion consultants or photoshop technicians, one of the two...

I need to call these guys and get the phone # for their microdermabrasion consultants or photoshop technicians, one of the two...

LOL it's not microdermabrasion fore sure but extremely good and professional retouching.

for all you who crave the gunslinger - ultrabrown has just the fix. remember to click the pic.

how'zat for some unconditional love. we care. we really do.

Where are the hot scruffy musicians?! Where are the hot computer nerds?? Where are the hot PhD's??

We need more.

What's a microderm abrasion?

Sriram you made me laugh out loud at your innocence :-) Here you go.

Thanks, JoAT! I guess questions like that will forever keep me out of any future issue of Asiana's 50 hottest desi bachelors.

I have to say that aside from a couple of those guys, I didn't find most of them attractive.

It wasn't the finely plucked eyebrows, the overly gelled hair or the cheesy smiles that did it...it was their interviews!

I was disappointed to see the usual careers in there, but it was good to see musicians and people working in creative industries too. They also seemed the most reluctant to discuss their finances, which is a good sign! And big props to the guys who refused to answer some of those tack questions.

But I think most of them are way too clean cut to be HOTT. Eligible they may be, but then I guess the really hot guys didn't have the car or the right no. of K's.

I guess questions like that will forever keep me out of any future issue of Asiana's 50 hottest desi bachelors.

Well Sriram if that is your goal I can help you :-) but I don't think you need to get in there. Besides after your performance in NYC in March you'll be a rockstar. If you be it they will come.

Getting ON someone's best dressed/best looking/most successful list has no appeal to me whatsoever. However, I think my ego might be a bit bruised if I ever end up on somebody's worst dressed/ugliest/biggest loser list. At this point I'm pretty confident that neither one will happen, which is fine by me. :)

All I can say is that desimen really need to bulk up.

Amen brother! I am not skinny (and don't plan to be ever), and ALWAYS notice the beefy types!

I think I am one waist size too big to apply for this list. Give me six months and I'll apply for next year's calendar, though (although I warn you all I am going to lie about my salary!)

All those complaining --- this is a pretty accurate reflection of todays British desi men in terms of grooming and style. They really are a bunch of six-packed pretty boys. (I say 'they' excluding myself obviously. See previous post for reason why)

Although I just started doing sit-ups as my new year resolution, so don't get the wrong idea, it's not like I couldnt make it in there, if I really wanted to. Anyway, sense of humour counts for a lot these days, apparently.

I think I recognise some of those faces off bhangra videos on Zee Music!

Amen brother! I am not skinny (and don't plan to be ever), and ALWAYS notice the beefy types!

Desi brothers are not going to get much play in the US unless they put some meat on.

Desi brothers are not going to get much play in the US unless they put some meat on.

From where I stand desi brothers in the US (well at least in NYC) get way too much play irrespective of what they look like.

From where I stand desi brothers in the US (well at least in NYC) get way too much play irrespective of what they look like

Funny - never got that impression when I was a bachelor ...

too sweet@RedSnapper's series of commentary starting with a declaration, then a gentle sideswipe at the competition, then self-affirmation of hotness factor. :)

The other shoe has apparently dropped

Women while obviously different then men (thank God for those differences), are more like guys than one might imagine. They are just better at hiding their thoughts.

too sweet@RedSnapper's series of commentary starting with a declaration, then a gentle sideswipe at the competition, then self-affirmation of hotness factor. :)

I second that, watevz... :) Lovin' the whole 'I'm gonna try...but they're not that hot...but wait I AM kinda cute...hmmmmm...'

V true about brown boys getting too much play...and all the wrong ones! But I guess that's rule #1 of being a playa, the slick win over the sincere.

Perhaps I'm seriously out of the loop here, but I noticed that none of the men actually look "asian." Or at least not in the traditional sense. Unless I'm thinking of a different part of Asia.

Hey Girls

im glad someone passed this link for to look at.
im well impressed with the views of the american young asian females.

I like the idea of having an asian USA magazine..
we have Vogue Launching in 2 months with its indian edition in india.
so what are the Big Boys/Girls playing at?

are the Nyc boys really that skinny? someone should speak to their mothers to use Asli atta..

Thanks Naina for your comment. ( Made me Light up :P )

Peace - Aash

hahah Ash good chap ,so wuss new? hope all is going wel peace