In 1996 I was returning from Kolkata in Rajdhani!A BD man boarded the train,he was wearing a full suit(3 pc) & a tie!
He kept looking at me, I could tell he wants to talk!He did, & told me that the buses & public transport in Kol & India are so out dated,where as they have Volvos
I kept listning, while he kept bragging!
Then he tells me that men in India do not even know how to dress!I asked him why did he think so!
He told me, look at me, I am travelling in Rajdhani to Delhi, so I am wearing a suit, look at your men, wearing such casual clothes,till here
I kept quite!Then he said in BD bong, kuch toh class hona chaheyeh!
Bas. . .I had had enough of his chapar chapar. . .I gave him the length & breadth of my tongue, but pyar seh!
I told him travelling in a Rajdhani isn't such a big deal for us, very evident it is for you!They way
you are dressed in this heat, people are looking at you and thinking you are mad!
We are a self reliant country, we will progress on our own, in our own pace!Unlike you our country doesn't run n foreign aid!
You are have come to India for treatment, that itself says a lot!
Hope you get well soon!
We have a lot of illegal BDs!How many illegal indians do you have?
You are a guest, else could have told you more!
After that, he did not cross a word with me!
Not even a bye!😅 #WorldHappinessIndex
Excuse the typos please!☺
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Let me tell you an interesting fact about my home town Ranaghat!
It is called so,coz of the infamous dacoit Rana,he used to live there in a Kali temple!
You see those square box like designs on the roof,the right side of the pic!When the dacoits used to come. . .
then all the men of the house used to go to the roof top with their guns!
Each of those squares have a slanting hole!They would put the barrel of the gun through that and position themselves!
Then the head of the house would shout & negotiate with the sardar!
If the deal . .
was done, then that much of jewelley would be thrown from the top, else there would be a shoot out, till the dacoits would be chased away!!
Plenty of such incidences & stories that we have heard while growing up!