Some questions and exclamations I encountered from people round the world about India ! (Meant for pure entertainment and no offence is directed to anyone )
1. "Hey you are an Indian...But your English is very good !" (Most of them are quite surprised)
2. "You live with your parents ? In the same house ? Are you kidding me ???"(Almost every single American and European friend has said this to me who is unaware of our close knit family system and not to mention the dominant parental influence in our lives :D)
3. "The trains in your country don't have any doors ! It's fucking scary !!!" (An American who travelled in the Indian second class )
4. "Why are Indians always nodding their head ???" (Again, almost everyone I meet asks me this ! I don't know why people here feel that Indians are always nodding their head !!!)
5. "Do you have cows on your streets ???" (A cliched but still an embarrassing question to say at least)
6. "So will your parents get you married after your degree ???" (Duh!)
7. "We love Indian food ! We have Sainsbury's (a superstore chain of Britain) 'Dhal' and 'Chicken Tikkah Masala' almost every weekend! ( A British woman on her love for Indian food. Special attention to the pronunciation of Dal and Tikka ) :)
8. "I love Bollywood films...they are sooo funny with all the singing and dancing !" (And this expression of theirs is followed by me lecturing them about the 'few' experimental films we make in a year ! )
9. You have Gucci and Prada in India as well...Really ??? (A Brazillian guy looking astonished!) (Why? Can we just have cows on the streets !!! )
10. After showing Guzarish to 2 guys from Holland, they exclaim- "Is this an Indian film ?" "Are these people Indian? " ( Hrithik and Aishwarya) ? "No way !"
11. "You know the other day I was in the tube and there were 2 Indians talking in a strange language...It had so many English words interspersed in between...I could almost make out what they were talking about !" (Afterthoughts of a French person after being exposed to a concocted language called 'Hinglish' )
12. "Even you need a VISA to work here ? But aren't you from India ? Wasn't it a colony of the British? You guys must be having an arrangement of some sort ?" ( Yes we were a colony but we haven't really borne any fruit of letting them rule our country for 200 years ! Not even 'Right to work' like EU !!!
1. "Hey you are an Indian...But your English is very good !" (Most of them are quite surprised)
2. "You live with your parents ? In the same house ? Are you kidding me ???"(Almost every single American and European friend has said this to me who is unaware of our close knit family system and not to mention the dominant parental influence in our lives :D)
3. "The trains in your country don't have any doors ! It's fucking scary !!!" (An American who travelled in the Indian second class )
4. "Why are Indians always nodding their head ???" (Again, almost everyone I meet asks me this ! I don't know why people here feel that Indians are always nodding their head !!!)
5. "Do you have cows on your streets ???" (A cliched but still an embarrassing question to say at least)
6. "So will your parents get you married after your degree ???" (Duh!)
7. "We love Indian food ! We have Sainsbury's (a superstore chain of Britain) 'Dhal' and 'Chicken Tikkah Masala' almost every weekend! ( A British woman on her love for Indian food. Special attention to the pronunciation of Dal and Tikka ) :)
8. "I love Bollywood films...they are sooo funny with all the singing and dancing !" (And this expression of theirs is followed by me lecturing them about the 'few' experimental films we make in a year ! )
9. You have Gucci and Prada in India as well...Really ??? (A Brazillian guy looking astonished!) (Why? Can we just have cows on the streets !!! )
10. After showing Guzarish to 2 guys from Holland, they exclaim- "Is this an Indian film ?" "Are these people Indian? " ( Hrithik and Aishwarya) ? "No way !"
11. "You know the other day I was in the tube and there were 2 Indians talking in a strange language...It had so many English words interspersed in between...I could almost make out what they were talking about !" (Afterthoughts of a French person after being exposed to a concocted language called 'Hinglish' )
12. "Even you need a VISA to work here ? But aren't you from India ? Wasn't it a colony of the British? You guys must be having an arrangement of some sort ?" ( Yes we were a colony but we haven't really borne any fruit of letting them rule our country for 200 years ! Not even 'Right to work' like EU !!!
