‘Hello Madams, where are you from?’ New Zealand ‘Aaah Switzerland, that is a very nice place…’ No, NEW ZEAland ‘Aaaah very nice also, Cricket! You know Fleming?’ Yeah Stephen, he’s our neighbour. ‘What are your names?’ Emma and Olivia. ‘Aaaah beautiful names, they are Indian names you know…’ Really? ‘Where are your husbands? Why are you not married? When are you getting married? I have a son who is not married? Would you like to buy my pashminas?, I give you a special price, those ones you have are not real, but mine are, mine are the most beautiful pashminas in all of India!’ And with the above dialogue, like its out of a text book we begin most of our conversations with the men of India, and its only men that we meet as
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