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Posted on: May 27, '09

Love thy neighbour!

We all need good neighbours. And some of us are blessed with them. I'm one of those some of us. And whoever first said love thy neighbour would be so proud of me because I really do love them! Here are the reasons why...

They are so proud of you: Really, they are. Mrs Verma, 'Acha hai, aapki betiyan itni smart aur bindaas hain. Aaaj ke zamane mein buddhu hone se kaam nahi chalta'. Mrs. Verma again, 'Roy saab ki betiyon ko dekho. Bilkul taur tareeka nahi hai. Kaise kapde pehenti hain, kaise baat karti hain'. And then her daughter disappears to work for Dimple Kapadia and comes back a year later with a baby... from an already married man! Mrs. Verma came over to gappa maro with mummy a couple of days ago. I loved the look on her face when I snubbed her and continued doing my work instead of entertaining her. Finally she said, "theek hai beta main chalti hoon. Mummy toh hai nahi aur tum bhi busy ho." I said, 'Ok aunty, mummy se kahungi aap yunhi aain thi.' Well, I have a reputation of being badly behaved to keep ;)

Live entertainment right in your living room - Dude, I'm ready to get my cable (haan bhai, thoda aur zyada wish nahi karte, aur dish mein sirf khana khaate hain) disconnected and save up money! Jayshree aunty says, 'Mereku bhaut taklip hai, lekin woh Aparna (her bahu) mera kuch kaam nahi karti. Mereku ekdum marneko hota hai.' Then Aparna bhabhi has something else to say, 'kya takleef hai? kitni der toh ghoomne jaati hai aur thoda kaam bola toh beemar pad jaati hai'. "Tidi tidding ting... Rishton ke bhi roop badalte hain..."

They can be your dress designers, free of cost - Tum sari pehno na. Bahut acha dikhta hai. Manisa ben looks at us so deridingly for wearing such 'modern' clothes till her daughter Kareesma goes to college and wears pretty much the same kind of clothes. Oh, and then her son is caught smokin' up, outside our building. Ever since, I don't remember when did Manisa aunty last look straight at me.

They do the family planning for you - Someone from the pulse polio dept knocked on our door this morning and asked, 'aapke yahan koi chhota bachcha hai?' Mishra ji phatt se boley - 'Do teen saal baad aaiye, ho jayenge.' Jayshree aunty wouldn't be left behind, 'Agle saal aao.' Wow! My newly wed bro and sis in law don't have to worry about the planning at all. The neighbours will tell them!

They are the protectors of girls: Mishraji again! He doesn't want my bro and his friends to hang out under his window because humari beti badi ho rahi hai. Acha nahi lagta. Aapke ghar mein bhi toh betiyan hain... Never mind the fact the badhti bachchi can be seen faffing with a boy at the building gate at 11 pm. I didn't have that liberty when I was 15.

Sigh. But, well, then again... You can't live without your neighbours either. It'll be depressing. And then everyone is someone else's weirdo. So, I'm sure they have some such things to say about me as well!

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rollercoaster2001 said:
thats like making good use of your surroundings...cool and bright ideas thrown here...kudos!!

May 30, '09

jdoc said:
neighbours are also indians So u have to be exceptionally lucky to get british or americans so that thyare different. as to the new generation the norms are achanging ... for all.

May 29, '09

super45 said:
thanx for the forward of this blog.
My comment to the Blogger Novacaine

Neighbours are neighbours we all become a bit "Nosy & noisy" in our neighbour's daily affairs and vise a vesa.

This is true as Sazzy says above . An indian neighbours are always like what you describe in your blog.

sub chalta hei,--- life goes on but one thing is sure they are the fist one to come to your rescue when you really need them in time of grief or happyness to share..

good write up

suresh

May 28, '09

MyZoneCAN said:
And the neighbors think of us too...in the same vein! What comes around goes around too!! right!!

May 28, '09

Gary_2XX said:
Hey Dhuval if we dont have Sharma jees' Mishra Jees' and all the bhenjees, bhabijees and the likes around the place - life would be sooo drab. Imagine how would have the words like bitching been coined and our dictionaries would have been dry LOL ! Saab chalta hai - dekho aur maza lo. "Mere saamne wali khirki main ek chand sa tukda rehta hai".Life's like that. CHEERS!

May 28, '09

FundamentalS said:
Well, in any case, basically a neighbour never changes. Mishraji ya Sharmaji ya Yusuf saheb. Sabki aadat ek si hoti hai kyon ki woh neighbour hote hain. Kewal genious log neighbour nahi hotey hain !

May 28, '09

sazzyme said:
:guffawing:

and i opened up the blog darn pretty sure this is a blog bout india's neighbours!
well thats gonna be a diffnt blog altogether ..
na nova?

May 28, '09

LovelyStars said:

May 28, '09

creativefront said:
Nice experiences. Nice blog.

Thanks for sharing it.

May 27, '09

manisha_bhattacharya said:
LOL!!! Missed your special humour Dhaval!
Thanks for sharing this Chandra!

May 27, '09

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