I don’t know if I’ve ever told you about Gopal’s before. Gopal Sweets is about two or three kilometres down the road from college. It’s a cross between Nirula’s and Evergreen- it’s a sweet and chaat shop on the ground floor, and a (vegetarian) fast food place on the first. For the benefit of my non-Delhi readers, Evergreen is a sweet shop (Indian sweets, that is- for the benefit of my international readers), and Nirula’s is a local fast food chain renowned more for its ice cream than for anything else.<\/p>\n
That dispenses with the introduction. Moving along.<\/p>\n
Gopal’s first floor is manned mostly by Nepalians, but during lunchtime, a lady handles the cash register. When paying for lunch at Gopal’s I call tis lady aunty, meaning, of course, nothing more than to show respect for someone so obviously more aged than me.<\/p>\n
But today she called me uncleji.<\/p>\n
I’m a bit flabbergasted. My father was called uncle by a twenty year old when he was twenty-five, and this sparked off a chain of circumstances that eventually led to him getting married- the most important outcome of which, of course, was that I was born, and you are now reading the W-Fillets. I’m twenty, and I’ve been called uncleji by a woman in her thirties. I cannot even imagine the eventual outcome of this.<\/p>\n
Then again, this incident could be completely meaningless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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