Thursday, November 26, 2009
Hindi Connection
Coming back to internships again, my present joke of a work experience is rather odd. Everybody talks to me in Hindi...even the "very bengali" bangalis who just cannot. it was only yesterday, i kept answering all of the receptionist's queries in bengali when infact every question was asked to me in Hindi. I know she is a bong, i have made it amply clear that i am a bong...then why the need for hindi?? this is a very interesting phenomenon that plagues a lot of us bengalis actually...the want to talk in another language to make the discourse sound official. it happened this other time when my father was talking to a traffic policemen. Neither spoke in remotely correct hindi, but nonetheless they did speak in hindi. Since i didn't have anything to do today (read had but chose not to) i kept thinking about the whole hindi connection. very very baffling indeed.
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And i've been having a tough time with atleast two interns here taking a dig at my hindi every time i open my mouth.
But the compulsive Hindi Speaking Bengali is a work of art, and credit to you for noticing that its funny. I hope you learnt your lesson here ;)
Oh please teach Marathis some manners! Two Marathis meet and they refuse to utter a word of Hindi, even when their conversation's common to ten other people. Disgusting lot. All of them.
well...bengalis are always willing to show off their language skills(or no skill)
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