One of my juniors recently went to Spain on her honeymoon and a Hispanic out of the blue asked her – Oh you are from India, you have slums and all, how cool!!…and incidentally I also feel that my junior looks a lot like how kiddo Latika (Rubina Ali) will look when she grows up. So, I don’t blame the Hispanic for relating so well with her…First time you meet an Indian and slums are his biggest identity.
Another of my good friends and a fellow batchmate participated in the assessment center of one big company in London. All other participants in the assessment center belonged to different ethnicities and there was this one British Woman taking keen interest in my friend and all his confidence which was bespattered all so badly in the assessment center was restored by the attention he was getting from her. As he narrated to me, some Britishers are too intrigued by Indians and you can even expect questions like “Were you born Indian by choice or by chance?”, (and thankfully this woman didn’t dare to ask this question in Haryana, coz here she’d have received everything else but the answer.) Looking at the undue attention, my poor friend thought his bad days were finally over. He shall no more be one of those howling “bystander” dogs making mating calls for other dogs and female dogs (the more popular word for female dogs is now synonymous with Human Beings, so I spared the dog species from that word) to make love. However, as Slumdog Millionnaire had not released by then, all his premature hormonal dysfunctions were not well reciprocated, although he looked like what Dev Patel (protagonist of Slumdog) would look once he reaches puberty. Ohh, he is 18? Ohh..Ok..
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