#100sareepact,
\n73\/100
\nA Jaipur Kota silk in marigold yellow…. A really bright celebration color…. From Jaipur. Reminds me of my carpenter and the conversations we had when I was doing the wood work for my house….. <\/p>\n
Carpenter and team busy chopping, sawing, planing, fevicoling. I enter and head carpenter, Nandulal asking me in Hindi….. Now please remember, he speaks only Hindi and I speak 4 South Indian languages, one business language…..
\nN: Ye Kahan dalna
\nMe: Ye kya haiiii?
\nN: some shelf he says
\nMe: hmmmm.. Wait karo… Let me soch….
\nN: jaldi boliye…..
\nAfter some time, I say, Yis goda mein dalo…
\nNandulal full confused and says KYA???
\nI say, really loud, Yis goda mein dalo…,, understand? <\/p>\n
Now all the workers stopped working and were looking at me and N alternately. One was smirking, another scratching his head, few more looking as confused. The only thing that was constant was – all looking at me and N, like a tennis match.
\nN, he is by now fully confused, sits down, scratches his head, all the while looking at me….then he says, I am going for lunch…. (in Hindi)
\nI give him a dirty look thinking then why the hell did you want me to tell you in a hurry…. But can’t say that much in a way he can understand…..
\nN goes for an extended lunch and comes back at 3…. Warily comes in and looks at me. In the meantime, I had recalled my 2 std Hindi and realized that, I was all along referring to Deewar, which is gode, in Kannada. For some reason I thought the Hindi version of gode was goda!! Heh heh! <\/p>\n
Flashes of lightning and My Eureka moment happened. Recalled from the same text book, that wall is Deewar in Hindi and realized Gode is wall in Kannada!!!! <\/p>\n
And realized all the while Nandulal was thinking why the hell should he put the shelf on the horse…. <\/p>\n
And I tell N, Deewar, Deewar, put it on the Deewar….
\nN is happy that finally I have become sensible again…. Mutters something and I am beaming and rolling with laughter…. \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
#100sareepact, 73\/100 A Jaipur Kota silk in marigold yellow…. A really bright celebration color…. From Jaipur. Reminds me of my carpenter and the conversations we had when I was doing the wood work for my house….. Carpenter and team busy chopping, sawing, planing, fevicoling. I enter and head carpenter, Nandulal asking me in Hindi….. Now…<\/p>\n