Recently i have been having conversations with a lot of people on "India" and "Indians". These have not been all patriotic. There were some "Mera Bharat Mahan" and the some were "What has this country done for me?", some who said "What have i done for my country?" and many more people who i interacted with and spoke to about India. All this made me go and analyze wat or who is an ordinary Indian.
My first encounter with "Indianity" was in a movie theater were i went to see a movie called "Little Zizou".
1. We are the only country that plays the National Anthem before starting the movie.
We love A.R. Rehman in his white Kurta Pyjama,his hair flying doing the "Jaya hey!" "Jaya hey!".."jaya jaya jaya hey!". This made me think do they play the National anthem even for those "In-some-by lane" movie halls where the matinee show is more popular than the Channel V late night show.
Y would someone play the national anthem when u are there for entertainment? I came to the conclusion..since we tend to forget things easily this is the way our countrymen make us rehearse.
2. We love the Firangs!
First we throw the Brits out of our country and now we show Ads everywhere around England "Visit India", "Incredible !ndia", thats right, its our way of saying "Please comeback....please...we promise we will never ask you to leave". I usually find men staring at the Firang women. We take the term "Looking through the soul" too literaly. The indian male things "forget the soul, that may take years! if i stare for a little while i am sure i can get through the clothes". Coming back to the love that we show the White Skined, if you have ever visited a historic monument you will find these "Guides"(they need guidance themselves) explaining history to these "Goras" like they lived with the Kings and were trained by them to be Guides (the king was worried about the Indian economy).If you have a cousin or a relative who has been abroad(mainly US and UK, the other countries are considered a part of one of these) for more than 5 years, he is termed as the esteemed guest, the chief guest etc... When the visit india all they do is click pictures of "3 men on a bike", "Trains" and "The naked street urchins". Dude! you have naked ppl all over the US and UK!
I shall add more these...i am sure we are made of a lot more than this!
gravity
15 years ago