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It is also true that Westerners still think that Indian schools are mostly run under banyan trees, as they are always depicted so on BBC or CNN news channels. Thanks to the Internet – it has helped us to cross the geographical barrier, and has facilitated us in understanding people from various countries & cultures better.

In my chat experiences with Westerners, I have learnt that they are very honest, very religious, very kind and that they give a lot of importance to family values. Get into any chat rooms, and type ‘hi’ to any Western person and you will get an immediate response – they either will say a hi or will say they are busy. And do the same to an Indian, they will act as if they are online forcibly and will behave as if they never got the message.

I attended a seminar addressed by a thinker who had had a lot of experiences abroad. He was describing an incident, where in an American asked him, “so how many women did you have in your life?” And he answered, “only one and that is my wife.” And it seems the American was astonished. He replied, “you Indians are great. How can you spend your whole life with one woman?” And the thinker replied, “we Indians are content with what we get and don’t aspire for more.” Listening to this the whole auditorium was filled with applause. This happened 10 years back, when I never had met a girl in my life. If now I were to be told the same thing – I would only say one thing that – Westerners accept their past failures, and are open to discuss it out before they get into a new relationship, and Indians mostly hide about their past, and are open to have more affairs without anyone’s knowledge.

I was standing at a juice centre sipping my mosambi juice, and a Maruti van got parked near me. An Indian family got down, and I could see a foreign lady also alighting from the van. May be the Indian family belonged to a social service group, and this lady had come to visit them. The Indian woman was wearing a tight pair of jeans, and a tight top, protruding all her womanhood with glory, and the foreigner was wearing a light colour salwar kameez. They ordered for juice, and a young guy holding 2 huge glasses in his hand was nearing them to deliver the juice. The foreigner rushed to help him out, and the Indian lady was seated in van unmoved. After the juice was delivered the foreigner immediately started sipping the glass, while I could see the Indian lady prompting something to the young chap. I thought probably she asked for some extra sugar or probably ice. The young guy came back with a couple of sipping straw, and gave that to her. She put one in her glass, and asked the foreigner will she want one? And she said, “no, it is fine.”