Weekends

Its Friday evening and me logging off..... My fingers are all tired from the constant jabbering on the keyboard, my eyes are reddish and my back pains more than my sore butt... Blame it on the long hours spent on the work-desk.

'The key to happiness in life is to make both week-ends meet...'

What d'ya think of that ;-)

Mind your language

I'm frustated.
The amazing diversity of languages, cultures and behaviours of the people of India never fails to fascinate me. But more often than not, its the very diversity that frustates me too.

I'm in Hyderabad, a place which is considered somewhat milder compared to the extreme images of xenophobia that we have in our minds regarding the 4 southern states. I mean, this is where you could expect some bit of Hindi to be recognized and spoken to you, leave alone English.

I've had fights with my Cable-guy who fails to understand the meaning of the phrase 'Please come once to my place and reinstall the cable connnection' - even after being spoken in Hindi, English, Hinglish and sign language.

The same is the case with my poor maid servant who has difficulty comprehending my intented speak, and is working only because her daughter knows a wee bit of Hindi.

Gawd, in this age of globalization, (and India Shining), we still have a big portion of population that does not understand our national language. Take Gujarat, take Maharashtra, or even West Bengal for that matter - even the most illiterate of vernacular speaking folks there manage to communicate some bit in Hindi. Isn't that some pointer for the 4 southern states?

And till that happens, we will still keep calling all Southies as Madraasis and everything above A.P. and Karnataka as North India.

Laziness......

Ok, so its easy to blame your unending laziness for not being a regular blogger...., but habits do die hard...
Anyways, with some sundry complaints coming in from a few folks on me not having updated my blog, here's an assurance - 'Will be back soon, fellas!'

Till then...