Relatives and their Perceptions
| 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 |
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