Conversation with the french lady

This story was posted on the wall of Delhi Metro Confessions. I found it very interesting. Sometimes it takes an outsider to let us know our own selves.

"This happened on the evening of 16th. Me and my friend were roaming in C.P. (Cannaught Palace) and checking out girls as usual (just love d Saturday rush at c.p. and thank u god for making Delhi girls so awesome), when suddenly we felt an irresistible urge for some Cholley Bhatoorey. We rushed in at Haldiram's. The place was packed,and the only seats available were at a table where an old French lady (as we found out during the conversation later) was eating. So we requested her to allow us for sharing d table. She happily agreed. Nearly 5 minutes after we sat, she suddenly quipped to us about the holy city of Varanasi, and following it we chatted a lot.

As it turned out, it was her 4th visit to India, last one being around 7 years back. She was all praise for our ancient culture, religion, art forms,diversity and food (she was having the tandoori platter :-P) and told us that she is so fascinated with India that when she goes back to France, she finds the life so bland and hollow there, that she can`t wait to come back to this ""colorful land"". And she was shocked to see the transformation of Delhi. She conceded that Delhi was much cleaner now, she was wowed completely with the airport (which is better than many in her own country she says). But the icing on the cake is that she too found DELHI METRO to be the best feature of our city (to which me and my friend agreed totally). Also she was curious about where all the cows and buffaloes have gone from the streets

I till now was quite smitten with how smooth things are in western countries and was utterly critical of my own country. But hearing that old lady say that she was disillusioned with the way her own country was going, with the poor being utterly destitute and the rich leading obscenely grandiose lives,I realized that my country still has hope. She said that ""France had lost it`s story around 30 years back"". I am glad that we are only beginning ours. I hereby confess that now, I am a genuinely proud Indian although a bit sad that it took a French to make me realize this ( And i just love Delhi girls, U people are so much more attractive that these western goris  )"