Subhekshya's blog

I was on a client meet the other day. There I met a guy, from Biratnagar, who worked at the office that I visited. During the meet, the ED called him to his cabin and addressed him as “Bahadur”. Should I have been offended by it?? When I thought about it, I was not. The ED was addressing my fellow Nepali by a respectful name- “Bahadur”. It means brave/ courageous in Nepali language. Rather than calling someone who works in a pantry as “Abe” , he chose a name; a proper one!! Should I see any wrong in that?? Time to introspect now; what about us calling people “Dhoti”?? What does that word even mean?? Aren’t we ourselves judgemental on the basis of nationality?? Isn’t calling someone “Dhoti” offensive?? No one can beat us, on being overly sensitive coz our “pride” is like an open wound. It gets infected; too fast too easy. Some hot chick in a TV serial makes a random statement about “Buddha being born in India”; and what do we do?? Start a big demonstration in the streets; send

   If you follow ‘How I met your Mother’ like I do, you might be very well versed with the term ‘bro-code’. But, what about 'Girl's code'??  The more I thought about it, the more I was convinced that we do have codes (Trust me, they are nothing less than amazing!!) . I have tried to include these codes in the blog. Hope, you will have a good time reading it :)       Friendship before appearance.. Although, we might have completely hated the brown and black frill dress that our Gff wore during the weekend night out, we can never be blunt and say something like “You look disastrous”. We tend to un- notice small details to save something big like friendship!!   Gff and not boys!! Your friend is in a relationship and she introduces you to her guy. Your thought process goes something like ‘OMG…how did she find a guy like him?? He is hot!! I hope he has some good looking friends’. She calls you in the evening and asks you ‘So, how did you like my boy?’ You