In corporate profession, It becomes very difficult to continue your hobby, but anyhow I continued reading, finished with “Wise & Otherwise” a beautiful novel on experiences of a typical Indian Lady,  Sudha Murty and now reading “The Tiger, The Elephant and The Cellphone” by Shashi Tharoor. In fact Tharoor is my favorite Non-Fiction Writer. There is a similarity in both the novels. They both are depicting the typical Indian life. How we Indians can define ourselves.? Our nation is such a conglomeration of Languages, Cultures, Religion that this question of what we are has become unanswerable. How can one define a country that has 2000 castes and sub castes, 20000 languages and dialects and 3000 different ways of cooking potatoes.! For amid our diversities we have all acquired a sense of what we have in common, the assumptions, the habits, the shared reference points that constitute the culture. Here I’m trying to write the A-Z about India that from my point of view is common to every Indian.

A: Amitabh Bachchan, Astrology.

B:  Bidi, Bollywood, Black-Money.

C: Caste, CellPhones, Communal Violence, Corruption, Cricket, Cows.

D: Dacoits, Dowry, Dhabas.

E: Elections, Emergency.

F: Fasts, Films.

G: Gandhi, Ganga.

H: Hindi, Harijan.

I: Illiteracy,IPL, I-Pill.

J: Jokes.

K: Kashmir, Kargil, Kamasutra.

L: Lataji, Law, Lalu.

M: Mangoes, Monsoon, Maruti, Minorties, Music.

N: Nepotism, Nationalisation, Netas.

O: Opinions.

P: Partitions, Pollution, Population,Politics.

Q: Queues.

R: Railways, Reliance, Religion.

S: Sari, Socialism.

T: TajMahal, Tendulkar, Traffic.

U: Unemployment, Undevlopment.

V: Villages, Vegetarianism.

W: Weddings.

X: Xerox.

Y: Yes-Men.

Z: Zoroastrianism.