Relationships

Relationships in India and Abroad

Husband In India - A boring human species, who listens more to his mother than you, and orders you around to serve him, his parents and siblings.
Outside India - Still boring, but now a useful human species that comes in handy when the house needs to be vacuumed.

Friend
In India - A person whose house you can drop into any time of the day or night and you'll always be welcome.
Outside India - A person whom you have to call first to check and make sure he is not busy.

Wife
In India - A woman who gives you your clothes and towel when you go to take a shower.
Outside India - A woman who yells at you not to leave tub dirty when you go to take bath.

Son
In India - A teenager, who without asking will carry your grocery bags from the market.
Outside India - A teenager, who suddenly remembers he has lot of homework when you start mowing the lawn.

Daughter
In India - A lovely doll, who brings tears to your eyes during her marriage.
Outside India - A lovely doll, who brings you to tears long before her marriage.

Father
In India - A person you are afraid of, and who is never to be disobeyed.
Outside India - A person to whom you pretend to obey, after all he is the one paying your college tuition.

Indian Engineer
In India - A person with a respectable job and earning lots.
Outside India - A person without a secure job, who always dreams one day he will be rich.

Doctor
In India - A respectable person with OK income.
Outside India - A money making machine, who has a money spending machine at home called "doctor's wife".

Bhangra
In India - A vigorous Punjabi festival dance.
Outside India - A dance you do, when you don't know how to dance.

Software Engineer
In India - A high-tech guy, always speaks in American accent, always anxious to queue in the consulate visa line.
Outside India - The same hi-tech guy, who does Ganapati Puja everyday, and says 'This is my last year in the US (or wherever)'every year.

A Green Card holder bachelor

In India - The guy can't speak Hindi, parents of good looking girls are dying to hook him, wears jacket in summer, says he has a BMW back there.
Outside India - The guy can't speak proper English, wears jacket all the time, works in a Candy store at Manhattan, dreams of owning a BMW.