You may be missing India, when you ......

Zoeperman

Oops... I forgot half of my sentence there
Let me refrase that:

You may be missing India, when you...

Rent an appartement at 50,00 in Chennai (or actually any place in India will do) so you can refer to India as home.

kristinm

excellent thread

quote:

- you offer a share of your sandwiches round to fellow passengers on the 08:05 to Liverpool Lime Sreet


very nice

nanstallon

I miss India every Thursday lunchtime, when it's curry day in the canteen at work. Especially when there's some brinjal chutney to sort out the men from the boys - but will never be quite as fierce as what I had at the Golden Temple in Amritsar!

Briped

You know you miss India when

You keep your curtains/blinds drawn to keep out the heat and the fierce sunlight of the long dark Scandinavian winter and have a tube light fixed approx 20 cm below the ceiling.

Inwardly you laugh at people who find a beautiful 22C May day 'hot, when you yourself only just returned from Mumbai.

Regret the lack of vegetarian dishes on the menu of your local Indian restaurants when you're not even normally vegetarian.

Think of how your footsteps on a marble or terrazzo floor are so silent when on a wooden floor you sound as if you're deliberately stamping your feet.

Contemplate having your beech- and pine wood furniture replaced by plastic look a likes.

Didn't this thread deserve reviving?

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Mikki

I didn't even laugh at this one as I so often have when reading posts under "You know you're missing..." What's to laugh? After all, it's perfectly true! How about hanging a mosquito net over the bed in Denmark (or Germany where I live)? Anyway, just reading these lines made me miss India so much! This post is really a little poem about loving India

Briped

You also know you miss India when

On leaving your 'house' (even if it is a flat) unthinkingly you reach out for your dupatta, even if you hate the thing and are not wearing an SK anyway.

You contemplate your last almost healed scratched Indian mosquito bite with nostalgia.

larsomat

Yes, definitely.

You'll miss India, when:
- You drive by bus, and think that this road has not enough bumps. How boring!
- You think that everybody on the streets moves way too tense and robot-like.
- It seems strange to you, that nobody on the street scratches his balls.

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cooksisters

When you decide to abandon the hair conditioner and put a half a bottle of coconut oil on your hair!!

giripriya

When you wear chappals(or even a dhoti) and it's March in New York.

When you can't find a hot pad to grab a pan from the stove and unconsciously reach behind for your non-existent dupatta.

When you eat rice with your hand and are amazed that your dining companions find it so shocking.

When you look at the hotdog and pretzel vendors and wish there were places you could buy fresh cane juice or pani puri.

When the AC breaks and you get a ceiling fan instead.

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jw46

You know you are missing India, when you check the temperatures for Mumbai and Delhi in your Daily Newspaper..

rubsen

when you look for a parking lot and you are wondering where da hell the guys are who will push other cars so that you will have enough space to park yours

when you start negotiations with german taxi drivers

when you are surprised that using horn and lights is not usual in play streets

The_Londoner

When you start converting figures in Lakhs and Crore.

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jw46

Heehee i bet the negotiations end up with Nein...lol

rubsen

or even worse

Briped

You may be missing India when you

Look for Hindi in that long list of languages available in the user's manual of your new micro wave oven.