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Last
week I went to meet my friend Vangelis who is a European guy, I met him in
Delhi while attending one of my workshops. After that workshop he went to
Thailand for another workshop. He came to Delhi last week only, and asked me to
meet for a coffee.
As
our plan we met at Khan Market Metro station, I saw him from back side he was
in red top and green lower (very different type of dressing :)) and the
coincident was I was also in same color. I wearied red kurti, green payjami
with green duppta I dint noticed that but he noticed and said this to me. After
that we went to a European restaurant and I was new in this kind of
environment. I was lots of thoughts that “can
able to adjust in this kind of atmosphere where alcohol and other drinks were
serving like normal cold drinks and etc.”
Still
I was with him and observing everything there, I can see lots of Europeans
there, I was thinking like I am in between Strangers
in the Night or I am not in India but in Europe. Their culture was very
different from me, few Indians were also there but also modified like Europeans
and these Indians and European were looking me like I was an escaped animal of
a zoo just because of I was not fitting in the atmosphere, I was in fully in
Indian traditional style and they all are in western.
There
I met with his two friends also, they were waiting for him. One is a girl and
another is boy. Girl was totally white and boy was also same but boy had long
hair till his shoulder. They were talking and I was just observing the
atmosphere and culture of western country. Boy was smoking continuously as well
as drinking pomegranate juice regularly. I observed that both girl and boy were
giving lots of face gestures while talking but in India especially male doesn’t
do that.
Then
I saw an Indian girl who was sitting alone in a corner and having a big cup of
cold coffee and having a cigarette in her left hand and she was writing
something in her big diary but she was the only girl who was in Indian style
dress other than me.
In
this entire situation we had our coffee as well as dinner also. He was busy in
talking with her and mean while he introduced me to them and some time talking
to me also. Like
that my coffee meet it’s end with Strangers
in the Night and he dropped me at khan market metro station. I was
feeling like finally I came to India again.
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Welcome back to India!! :) :P
ReplyDeleteOdd man out I believe.. Absolute strangers in the night :P
ReplyDeleteKeep writing! Good luck for BAT!
Someone is Special
Superb penning. Well plotted and worded. Excellent.
ReplyDeleteI feel out of place half of the time as I travel a lot, all over India! Others seem to fit in fine, anywhere. Is it because we writers are wired differently? Some interesting points you make. All the best!
ReplyDeletethey might feel the same about our culture :)keep blogging :)
ReplyDeleteall the best for BAT :)
if you have time do visit
Strangers in the night
Had to go slow to understand. :)
ReplyDeleteAnd still, I am sure, I could not capture every facet. But yes, welcome back :)
Hey frnds... Thanx for visiting my blog and showing interest in it. Really It was very odd experience for me and now sharing it as blog and participating in BAT is also good. I don't know how much likes/rating my blog will score but I am happy to see that u all had read it. :)
ReplyDeleteIts amazing how we can find Indians in every single corner of the world! Best wishes for BAT!
ReplyDelete@Deepa Thanq so much... Really I saw Indian people there they all were looks like Indian converted Europians ;p
ReplyDeleteYou'll hardly find a place where Indians are not there!:)Anyway your blog seems very nice, specially the orientation looks really attractive! All the best to you!
ReplyDeletewelcome back home :)
ReplyDeletewe Indians are everywhere...so sometimes its ok to 've others here
ATB for BAT :)
i could not participate...but u can see my post here
Karan - Strangers in the Night
Niice one! Welcome to India, city girl...
ReplyDeleteNice one!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comments and keep writing some more :)
yep...there are places in India where Indians feel out of place!
ReplyDeleteInteresting experience. I had the same experience of being in a foreign country when visiting the expat colony where my client was staying in.
ReplyDelete@The Fool, really this kind of experience gives us different kind of feeling which can not pen downed any how. This can only feel
ReplyDeleteThe pen is the tongue of the mind.
ReplyDeleteइंसान का दिमाग छाता की तरह होता है
बेहतरीन तरीके से काम करता है जब वो खुला होता हैं|
हम जिंदगी को दुबारा चखने के लिए लिखते है
इसलिए कल्पना की इस उड़ान को यु ही बरकरार रखिए|
Getting out of the out of place places - that's what I call relief ! Rt ? :)
ReplyDeleteaweee.....now where did you get that look of your blog from ?????? I want it tooo !!! :P:P
ReplyDeleteand secondly,yeah, feeling out of place in that condition was completely obvious! :):)
best wishes
It is amazing to be surprised by the world. It doesn`t happen too often so be glad! :D
ReplyDelete@ashzzes if u really want this theme give me uur mail id surely I vl mail u. and thank you for reading and understanding my feeling,
ReplyDeleteNice read
ReplyDeleteThank you sir.........
DeleteGud one Teddy. :)
ReplyDeleteThank you Bear.........
Deletei wana to share a story!!!
ReplyDelete:) Bhim for sure but give me credit....
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