Today, I met a girl who speaks Marathi. And strangely i was surprised how come she, a marathi speaking girl came to be in hyderabad. She should have been in Pune, Aurangabad, Nagpur or some other marathi speaking place for Godsake.
And all throughout the conversation, instead of knowing more about her and her work, i kept wondering how come she is.. how come here .. how come in born in hyderabad..
Once she left with her friends, it suddenly dawned upon me, what if, someone in Bombay had asked me , "arey you are konkani na, you people are from Goa right, how come you are in Bombay" and kept wondering and pestering throughout my childhood days, my schooling days, all the way through my graduation and my working days.
I cant imagine if someone would be paranoid about whether i should have been born and brought up in Goa or Karnataka and not in Bombay.
Similarly, i cant imagine myself being paranoid when i see a Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi, Sikh, Oriya, Bengali in Bombay. It seemed always normal :)
Hyderabad is a metropolitan city and we will see more and more number of people who came from other states come and reside here, be born, grow, study, work, marry, make babies and live here.
My interactions with people in hyderabad was limited primarily to Telugu speaking friends or met people who came to Hyderabad over the last few years to work.
I think my Cortisols were the culprit here ;) to imagine the little girl as someone who may have come from outside ;).
And all throughout the conversation, instead of knowing more about her and her work, i kept wondering how come she is.. how come here .. how come in born in hyderabad..
Once she left with her friends, it suddenly dawned upon me, what if, someone in Bombay had asked me , "arey you are konkani na, you people are from Goa right, how come you are in Bombay" and kept wondering and pestering throughout my childhood days, my schooling days, all the way through my graduation and my working days.
I cant imagine if someone would be paranoid about whether i should have been born and brought up in Goa or Karnataka and not in Bombay.
Similarly, i cant imagine myself being paranoid when i see a Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi, Sikh, Oriya, Bengali in Bombay. It seemed always normal :)
Hyderabad is a metropolitan city and we will see more and more number of people who came from other states come and reside here, be born, grow, study, work, marry, make babies and live here.
My interactions with people in hyderabad was limited primarily to Telugu speaking friends or met people who came to Hyderabad over the last few years to work.
I think my Cortisols were the culprit here ;) to imagine the little girl as someone who may have come from outside ;).
