Relatives will be jealous (sic) and who could blame them? When their own sons will return home from their idle day, collecting information about their would-be-girlfriend from their own neighborhood, some important discussion on cricket and half baked politics with nukkad chat & chai and show their parents the Facebook and Instagram pictures of you joining heads with a blonde beauty. It is within the “Rights of Relatives Act” that you should choose a girl or guy based on the discretion advised by the extended family that Ekta Kapoor has so diligently established over the past 15 years. The Act also includes your right to have girlfriends/ boyfriends, intercept your independence, flying kites with your wings of freedom. The fact, that you are living in a foreign land, across the sea shall make no difference as they are your true well wishers.
Technology brings you closer to home, so close that you can actually hear your friends ruing at your white partner. You can talk for hours with friends back at home, where you think the real connection still exists (uumm) and know that people are genuinely happy for you and do not put customary smile. ‘So, what is she like’? (Secretly hoping she is horrible). ‘I am so happy for you’. (Teri kismet achhi hai tu bahar chala gaya, main hota wahan to ek ki jagah 10 gori girlfriend banata). They would pat you on the back, flaunt in front of their other friends- Gori bhabhi layega ladka, claim you as the only best friend and if you lost touch for a few weeks you may also be labeled as selfish. Well! The last part is not something new. If you are the only person among your friends to have a stable relationship you are selfish.
When the novelty, the exoticism fades gradually her broken Punjabi words will not entice the desi hunk anymore, rather he will look for a heart to heart conversation with someone in his own tongue and crack jokes in Punjabi where his beloved is suppose to split in laughter. We desi people can never live on bread, pizza or burger for days we need chapatti. We love to smear our hands while eating a mango or melon and don’t understand the logic of olive oil in salad! The gori girlfriend knows by now that the dedi lad may listen to Eminem but his heart lies with Bhangra and he is not the one to return home at 2 AM after party or order drinks at a table with his parents. So the excitement and passion, as wise people have said a million times, dies out soon and you look for a home to return to.
On a serious note, I am sure that while reading this some would recall memories from the past and
some are still trying their best to make it work and some who have just landed are looking for that spark & lighting works in the air and make it big in a strange land.
