Tommy G or Tommyji: Part 1

Tommy G

Indian newspapers have a funny way of mixing in pictures of scantily clad women and strange articles, with legitimate news stories. For example, the other day there was an article about charges being brought against the Chief Minister of Karnataka State, a serious and relevant news story, and right next to that article there was a picture of two women, wearing very little clothing, and an accompanying article entitled, “Women don’t mind if men have gay affairs.” Yes, that is a real article. The fascinating study that was detailed in this article then went on to clarify that, apparently, men don’t mind so much if women have gay affairs. Thank you for the details newspaper.

In Bangalore, they also have a small insert in the larger national paper, the Times of India (a very well respected news source) called, The Bangalore Times. Now, I can only assume that the Bangalore times is supposed to be a place for the local news from Bangalore, but really it is just 6 pages of pictures of celebrities and socialites with titles like, “JLo’s cousin is a Bollywood item girl!” and “We’re the dancers!”

What’s particularly fun about this insert is that there is a section colloquially known as, “Page 3.” Page 3 is collection of pictur

es of socialites from around the Bangalore party scene. One of the groups that have parties that end up on Page 3 is called the Bangalore Expat Club. The group is pretty groovy and there are some really cool people that show up for the events. I happened to catch wind of one of the Bangalore Expat parties a couple of weeks ago and decided to make an appearance. While I was there, a guy was taking some pictures for what I thought was the club’s website, but lo and behold, when I was doing my daily check of the Bangalore night life a couple of days later -- there I was! Apparently Tommy G is a socialite. If you will notice, there is a caption on one of the pictures I am in that reads, “easy people” Pretty presumptuous if you ask me…