The Great Inquisitive Indians
Inquisitive Indians
Although I promised myself never to post a thread on QL … but I gotta do this one…
Questions, questions, questions. We Indians love asking them. Wherever we go, we are bursting with questions. Be it a seminar, a AGM, a political meeting or even a mall where we encounter someone who looks vaguely familiar... Indians are famously known to ask about every single detail from “what shampoo you use”, “are you single”…. Even… “what is your salary” in the very 1st meeting…. If a lady is single then it rest on the rest of the community to get her married off irrespective of her desire…even on online websites… and with unknown strangers they continue their habit. A habit I hate of my fellowmen.
Be it an office, a gathering or online web space….Why are we trying to be the Sherlock Holms/Karamchand/Gopichand detective? Look around us... we reel in this delirious condition of living in somebody's shoes… 24/7… trying to follow them, spy on them and stalk them mentally.... to find wheels within wheels... to continuously read between the lines. Is this some Soap Opera that one has to analyze what will happen in the next epiosode?
It’s this endless curiosity which makes us so unbearably loveable/unloveable?...lol. I’ve never seen a nation, a people so desperate to know. No one stops me on the Champs Elysees to ask me when Qasab will be hanged. No stranger sits down in front of me in a Munich café to inquire if Kaif is Katrina’s real surname. No one walks up to me while I’m listening to a local band at sunset on the Naples waterfront to ask if I am born under the Tula rashi. That’s why I miss/do not miss India so desperately when I travel. I do miss yet not miss the spirit of inquiry that makes us the world’s most inquisitive people.
To those who are mighty upset by this post I add lol… so kindly take it in humor
The Sherlock Holmes of QL has gone in Voluntary Retirement. QL is not the same any more!
you should meet my granny ! :)
FatimaH...lol
After awhile you need to convince yourself that they are not really inquisitive and intrusive but actually very concerned and caring individuals!
.. the same questions go with most of the other nationalities abroad!
Why do you think this as a problem only with indians? I heard the same kind of questions from other nationalities also.:)
fortunately or unfortunately 1.2 billion indians cannot be generalized.....
lol guys...
hmmm...two posts (the other about love letter) with almost the same undertone...:(
Making FUN of own nationality is also against QL guidelines LOL :)
Making FUN of other nationality is against the QL guidelines LOL :)
The people from the places you mentioned don't know about their own close relatives [ hope you understand - it is in funnies ] then how one would expect so much about others from them ..
But thats not all ..
Please note this is in the funnies... ;)