Language - Still a Barrier!
Kem Cho? Kevi gayi chokrao ni rajao?? Didn't understand? Its simple Gujarati. If you cannot read Gujarati ..sorry you cannot read further. Puzzled? Don't be! It's coming from the bitterness that I experienced this week. I took almost a month long sabbatical from blogging, I had thought when I write after school re-opens it will be fresh and energetic just like I was feeling. But this experience not only hurt me as a Mother but also a resident of this prestigious society I am living in. Since the time we came and lived here in Pune, I experienced caste discrimination.. Yes in a metro city like Pune!!! After living abroad, you tend to get into the habit of greeting people in public places, even if you don't know them. I used to unknowingly do the same. But I was often answered by stern glances and worse tilted necks. Slowly I gave up. Gradually I understood, it was not me. It was my NON-Maharashtrian look and Hindi conversati