-When at Starbucks, you get a second, empty cup and mix the milk and sugar (and cinnamon and cardamon, and . . .) into the coffee by pouring between the two, then ask for a saucer and slurp it down while standing up.
-Throw stones at a stray dog i.e.if you ever find any.
-Blow your nose into the street.
-Start calling people older than you Auntie and Uncle
-Wear a red dress to a wedding, a white shroud to a funeral, your lungi to the mall in -35 temperatures.
-Water your garden by splashing out of a bucket, then sweep your lawn
-Drive at night down the middle of the highway with only your running lights on until oncomming traffic bears down, and then honk and turn on your highbeams
-Show up for Sunday Church with coconuts, banannas and incense- at 5AM
or . . on Friday at noon you unroll your prayer rug on the driveway in front of your church at hoist your butt in the air.
-Gargle and spit into the sink at a restaurant after a meal.
-At the taqueria, you unwrap the super burrito and tear off sections of the tortilla to scoop up the contents
-At the cinema, you press up against the back of the person in line ahead of you in the ticket line, then reach around in front of him and shove your money into the ticket booth, then put curry powder on your popcorn.
-Begin smiling at perfect strangers in the street!!!
-Buy a snack advertised as being “extra hot” then think you’ve been robbed!!!
-When the nieghbours star complaining about the spicy aroma eminating from your flat!!!
Aww…when will you get to go to India next? I feel the same way too and there is nothing that one can do to make the ‘missing India’ feeling go away.
There’s really no place like home.
hey often found u online when i googled my name! i am anuradha khanna from mumbai! like your writing