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The Hindu
The Hindu
Lifestyle
Jane De Suza

Stranger than ever

YARN IT!

Boston Bhabhi and her daughter, my impressionable niece, are visiting India and us to spend the summer. In their air-conditioned bedroom. I happen to overhear their conversations while cutting vegetables quite unintentionally right outside their bedroom door. ‘Don’t drink the water,’ says my bhabhi. Bah! And then – ‘Never talk to strangers.’ What?

At the first opportunity, I whisk my niece away to inculcate some proper values in her, before this foreign culture turns her head. We have rules for strangers, beta. Listen well – and don’t tell mummy, okay?

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