While a large no of readers shall agree with the points highlighted by the writer, i will take this opportunity to highlight another aspect of such kind of behaviour : You might have noted it many a times, or if you haven`t till now, start noticing, you will come across it very soon : whenever anyone having even the shortest amount of celebrity status is asked about his / her favourite Movie Star, Singer, Writer, Book, Personality or something like this, he / she will instantly shot back with some totally "FOREIGHN" names, as if its a status symbol to count the Foreign names. Such persons simply do not like to mention any Indian Person or Book as their favourites..Does this not speak about our mental slavery..
I fully agree with the concerns and the treatment author has got over all these places as he is 100% right . It seems as if we have no sense of belonging and dont connect to people from our own country ,but obviously India being what it is , Wwaiters/ People making few thousands here or there does make a huge difference in their daily wage earing capabilities thus the rude behaviour . Who are bloody Forigners in the first place to come and acquire A grade status and our own people becomes B grade status ... Disgusting .. Its India only where there is so connectivity with the people and nothing but feet licking and shoshapanti ... Go anywhere else in the world , people speaking the same language share the instant bonding and they are certainly given priority over others and are treated with respect , unlike us ....
Completely agree with the author of this article. Infact, when he is talking about "Fault Matter Freell", I guess he is talking about Salt Water Grill in Mumbai, marine drive. I agree with the article... never ever can you call up there and find a place for yourself. I guess I should try the trick mentioned by him in the article. May be it should work.
There are good number of instances in Chennai, where the person dressed in Dhothi often abhored by the local snob clubs and restaurants..even though the dhoti clad man may be an industrialist from coimbatore or Deep south who can buy of the entire joint..this is one of ther reasons the coimbatore mill owners started having their own bunglows in Chennai and Bangalore(some of them own apartments in Mumbai as well)with all furnishing and caretakers (they can afford all this)than to suffer funny experience in these joints which for most part are snobs
I agree with what the author has described about his experience. But what happened to we Indians when in Airplane, Bus, Train, Restruant we see people from villages and those who are living below poverty line..how most of us behave with them....we become white skin at that time ain't we
I would like to share an incident which happened when I was a school boy. We were visiting the Elephanta caves near Mumbai as part of a school picnic. Though photography was banned, there were a large number of foreign tourists taking photos of the rock sculptures and murals. When one of my classmates wanted to take a group photograph, we were shooed off and abused by the local watchman, as if we were street urchins.
I totally second the author's experiences in Goa. I have made two trips to Goa in the past two years and as much as I enjoyed the beaches, the poor treatment by fellow Indians left a bitter feeling in the heart. I can understand though why the waiters behave in such a discriminatory way--it's the tip they get! Typical Indian tourists don't tip much, if any at all, while western tourists are used to tipping atleast 15% to 20%. Nonetheless, I have noticed that Goans have a big attitude problem when it comes to dealing with their fellow Indians. The grip of Russian and other mafias in Goa is also noticeable, which explain why some restaurant owners/waiters have such high attitudes.
One note to fellow Rediff readers: steer clear of the bike rental services at Colva beach. The people running them are somehow related to the local crime syndicates and will harass you for extra money.
well sidin, i agree with you, but there are 2 sides to the coin. hv u noticed how we (and that includes most of us, esp self) are 'looooud' when it comes to restaurant etiquett- esp in goa? right from the swagger with which one walks in , to asking for 'booze menu', to pointedly askif for ' oh- carlsberg isnt here as yet', to loudspeak on mobiles- the list is endless. agreed some like us go to goa to have/buy romanov@rs 200 , but do u have to make a hue and cry that we are there to booze?
and the chennai place u speak of - self a regular- and much as i agree with you, if it werent for that, the results- some i have witnessed is really, really bad.
so probably there is a lesson somewhere. in fact why not write a piece on how idnians behave out of india ? Some (still) still kick a ruckus BUT, most are quiet - not unlike the congress office in gujarat recently... !!! anyways, keep going, and look forwad to next tue!
