MUMBAI: Winter is going but the ice-breakers keep coming. "Are you from Assam?" asks a woman mounting the backseat of a bike after purchasing a bunch of woolen caps and socks from Recho Pelmo. "I'm Tibetan," replies the 65-year-old hawker from Karnataka.
To which, the man in the front seat nods, "Okay. So, from Arunachal." Pelmo forgives him. "We are from another country. China has taken over our country," says the mother of seven as the vehicle exits her low-angle view of the unintentionally-racist city in which she has spent 43 winters, though none this cold.
