Paper Planes

So, after almost a year I am back to writing… Why... the real reason even I don’t know. But yes, there is one that has certainly played a role in it and that is my last month’s backpack trip to US. I mean I have so much stuff, so many experiences, so many things to share that I need someone and something where I can just pour it all. I can’t do that with people, guess it can be torturous and I do not believe in torturing souls…<at all> Anyways, so the first thing that I chose to write about from my bucket full of experiences is about the language. Yes, the language: different kind of languages that different kind of people use in different kind of regions. While travelling from one state to the other, I just couldn’t resist myself from observing the languages that people from various parts of the world speak (and write, off course). I was in a plane, which was still to take off. The passenger next to me was a Japanese and he was continuously on his phone. I ...

I was watching an IPL match last week in which all the commentators were foreigners. And it was Manish Pandey who was bowling. I really don't remember who was batting or the other team against which KKR was playing :( Anyways it doesn't matter as I am not here to talk about cricket or Manish Pandey or KKR or IPL. Ok... enough, let me straight jump on the point! All the commentators in the panel, as I have already mentioned in the very first line of this write-up were foreigners, were pronouncing Manish Pandey's last name in a very weird way, "Paandii", which is actually correct if you read it letter to letter literally. And we all who were watching the match (and also, who were not watching like me) were so amused and were smiling on the 'cute' pronunciation. And then few of my friends narrated similar kind of tales where some foreigner client calls them or their friend's names in a very funny way. But then later it stuck me, we Indi...