Aaaah! What a pain it is to keep on living out of a suitcase..... It so happened with me the whole of last year that i was globe trekking for work purposes & kept losing & gaining time ( look at my powers) every now & then.... Now, i aint complaining, after all who doesnt want to look around this earth ( that too when the company is paying for it :-)) but then all those stalwarts who have a 10 year multiple entry visa to uncle sam's land will agree with me that after a while it becomes boring, drab & more of a liability than a trip to Phoren
Back to the point... Now, of the few things that keep on bothering me whenever i remember my trips to Europe ( for that matter the same can be applied to US as well ) this is the one closest to my heart. If you visit any Indian website (TOI, rediff, etc. etc.) all the ads that you can see are one of the four categories.
1. Cheap Calling cards for India (12c/min, 5c/min, 2c/min, free/min)
2. Fly from LA to Frankfurt to LA to blah blah to finally Mumbai at advertised rates that are almost cheaper than the calling card prices :-)
3. Send money home to your parents (who are advertised as homeless people who are just waiting to receive a check from you) AND finally ...
4. Some cute girl smiling or a fat boy with SW Eng written below his photo screaming out "Marry Me"!
What? Are there no other markets for which they can target Indians. In the past 2 - 3 years, I've rarely seen any change in this format and that is very disturbing. In my mind I imagine their target Indian as a guy who:
Calls up home and keeps saying "Maaa, have you found a girl for me?" "Maa have you found a girl for me?" "Maa ..." This goes on and on and on coz the calling cards are dirt cheap. Then finally one day Maa says, "Yes! Beta we've found someone." So he instantly sends some money back to India for the wedding arrangements and then flies back to India via a route that touches every major city on the Globe.
Seriously! Is there nothing else that we can be targeted for. Visit any American site and you'll see so much variety. Laptops, iPods, penis enlargement pills, mp3s, furniture, cruise packages ... are we that "physically and technically well endowed" that none of these things would ever be purchased by us? Are we?
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That is so true..I think anyone who has lived in the U.S.,even though for a short while ,will surely relate to this.You have given words to what most of the Indians here feel.
I relate to this post very closely.
Thanks for subscribing to my thoughts Sunitha :-)) BTW why dont u call me one of these days using one of the cheap calling card options :-)
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