Relation

In India

Outside India

Mother-in-law

A woman capable
of making your life miserable.

A woman you
never fight with, because where else you will find such a dedicated
baby sitter for free ?

Husband

A boring human
species, who listens more to his mother than you, and orders you
around to serve him, his parents and siblings.

Still boring,
but now a useful human species that comes in handy when the house
needs to be vacuumed.

Friend

A person whose
house you can drop into any time of the day or night and you"ll
always be welcome.

A person whom
you have to call first to check and make sure he is not busy.

Wife

A woman who
gives you your underwear and towel when you go to take a shower.

A woman who
yells at you not to leave tub dirty when you go to take bath.

Son

A teenager, who
without asking will carry your grocery bags from the market.

A teenager, who
suddenly remembers he has lot of homework when you start mowing the
lawn.

Daughter

A lovely doll,
who brings tears to your eyes during her marriage.

A lovely doll,
who brings you to tears long before her marriage.

Father

A person you
are afraid of, and who is never to be disobeyed .

A person to
whom you pretend to obey, after all he is the one paying your
college tuition.

Indian
Engineer

A person with a
respectable job and earning lots.

A person
without a secure job, who always dreams one day he will be rich.

Doctor

A respectable
person with OK income.

A money making
machine, who has a money spending machine at home called "doctor"s
wife".

Bhangra

A vigorous
Punjabi festival dance.

A dance you do,
when you don"t know how to dance.

Software
Engineer

A high-tech
guy, always speaks in American accent, always anxious to queue in
the consulate visa line.

The same
hi-tech guy, who does Ganapati Puja everyday, and says "This is my last
year in the US (or whenever)"every
year.

A Green
Card holder bachelor

the guy can"t
speak Hindi, parents of good looking girls are dying to hook him,
wears jacket in summer, says he has a BMW back there.

the guy can"t
speak proper English, wears jacket all the time, works in a Candy
store at Manhattan, dreams of owning a BMW