LETTERS : Foreigners in the city Sir - It is not difficult to understand the plight of the students from the Northeast in large metropolitan cities of the country ("A Legal Alien", June 23,2001). Being isolated from the mainstream of Indian life for long time, they have virtually become objects of curiosity. This intensified when they join their contemporaries from the rest of the country in cities like Calcutta and New Delhi. This in turn gives rise to ghettos of students from the Northeastern states in college and university campuses in the big cities. Even as a middle aged lady, I have faced absurd queries regarding the Northeast. In Hyderabad, I was told that ladies from the Northeast were very fashionable because of the region's proximity to Bangkok. I Delhi, people were surprised to know that Assam had more than one airport; in Agra, my companions and I were asked to pay USD 20 instead of the Indian price of Rs 20 for, as we often have to hear, "Oh, but you don't look like an Assamese". Pray what should an Assamese look like? Yours faithfully, Arundhati Kakati, via email Courtesy: The Telegraph Kolkata Thursday 28 June 2001 Vol: XIX No: 353.
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Our gajang monk
LETTERS :
Foreigners in the city
Sir - It is not difficult to understand the plight of the students from the Northeast in large metropolitan cities of the country ("A Legal Alien", June 23,2001). Being isolated from the mainstream of Indian life for long time, they have virtually become objects of curiosity. This intensified when they join their contemporaries from the rest of the country in cities like Calcutta and New Delhi. This in turn gives rise to ghettos of students from the Northeastern states in college and university campuses in the big cities. Even as a middle aged lady, I have faced absurd queries regarding the Northeast. In Hyderabad, I was told that ladies from the Northeast were very fashionable because of the region's proximity to Bangkok. I Delhi, people were surprised to know that Assam had more than one airport; in Agra, my companions and I were asked to pay USD 20 instead of the Indian price of Rs 20 for, as we often have to hear, "Oh, but you don't look like an Assamese". Pray what should an Assamese look like?
Yours faithfully,
Arundhati Kakati,
via email
Courtesy: The Telegraph Kolkata
Thursday 28 June 2001
Vol: XIX No: 353.
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