Do you like women?

As we prepare to leave India at the end of an academic and professional programme; we've learnt some many new things from the class and even among our colleagues. However, there are certain things that we are likely to forget as we prepare to return to our respective countries, but the bottomline is that there are few things that I have noted. Just imagine: We visited Zee news studio and one of our collegues was unforgiving when he asked our the news editor, 'do you like women'.

The question was as fast as the bullet from the gun, not only were we shell-shocked about the question, we thought we had to apologised. There he stood, defending himself: 'Why did the news editor told us to ask him any question, for me if anyone make such declarations I have no option but to ask him anything under the sun'.

Then another fellow from Nepal wanted to take us for a ride at the start of the programme, no wonder toward the end of the programme he confessed to me that he was bully during his university days. In fact, he told that if I were in his country, he would have shown me 'blue and black' . It all started at the reading cum Tv room, he wanted to watch a programme at a time we were also watching football, we had some rough exchanges, then he lose his temper and decided to damage the remote control.

And finally, the man from Nigeria who holds a Master's degree in English, I don't know why some girls were afraid of him, oh I remember it has to do with what was right and wrong. As the Editor-in-Chief of the Echo magazine, he had some problems editing the scripts of some of the students who had little or no experience in development related issues. There are people in the class who said he asks a lot of questions, and that the questions are unusually long.

My Mexican friend told one of our lecturers to his face; I don't like you. ( Hey, let me stop here, I have told its time to go in for the convocation).

The dogs at IIMC.