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| The vivacious EILEEN DESTINY |
I don’t have an overseas traveling experience so far.
So, for my part I never have experienced any personal encounters with people residing/inhabitant in/of other countries, the
earth beyond the geographical boundaries of my country, India.
Recently, however something happened and I met
someone, quite a stranger who made me feel that sometime they are #MoreIndianThanYouThink
Seriously!!
Since last few months I have stirred up one of my long
suppressed passions…i.e. Photography. I do a hail lot of nature photography
these days that mostly includes sun rises, sun sets and flowers. Every morning,
I update my FB TimeLine with some photos along with few lines as Good Morning
Message. Need not to say, I get enough likes and I have developed few regular
readers too.
One fine day, I got a message on FB messenger from a
girl asking me about a restaurant at my place. It was from Eileen Destiny who I
didn’t know or I can say I hadn’t noticed her reactions and comments to my FB
posts till then. She had been a constant admirer of my Flower photography and
is a regular reader of my updates.
I was excited as I checked her profile and came to
know that she was from Singapore. I gave her all the details about the
restaurant she had asked about and then asked her, as a courtesy though, that
if she would visit my place anytime, I would like to meet her.
Guess what??
After two day, I got a message again from her…
Hey..Tina
I’m coming to your place tomorrow for a Business
meeting. How about meeting U. Can you make it…let me know!!
Luv
I was excited and bit confused at the same time. I was
scared to meet a complete stranger that to a foreigner. I was apprehensive too
thinking what impression she might have about India and Indians. Nevertheless, I
asked one of my friends to accompany me and finally we went to meet her at a
restaurant.
In India I found my Destiny…That’s why I have suffixed
Destiny to my name, said the vivacious Eileen as we gradually went on talking after exchanging the initial pleasantries
I was amazed when she told us how in India finally she
found her purpose of life. A spoilt tom boy since her childhood, she had left
Singapore, her Country, to Australia at her early twenties. She had always been
an entrepreneur in her heart and followed the same dream after her education. On her
early thirties she became a successful entrepreneur but at the cost of her own
health and mind. The stress she had gathered while facing/overcoming
challenges, the betrayals from her surroundings, the inevitable helpless times, and the
acute business loses at times had taken a toll on her body ruining it to the
core.
Incidentally six year back, she had visited India for a
business deal. And after that…her life took a positive turn with healing,
positivity and happiness. She has visited many countries, for travelling overseas
is the nature of her business, but its India that made her feel the Second
home.
I had never expected that she might know India so much in
detail. In fact more than an Indian. Not only places…that included some interior parts and villages, but she
knew many cultures, tastes and festivals of India. The Indian way of life, food and clothing those
are as diversified as trees in a dense forest, and this girl was knowing them
as if she had been born and brought up here…isn’t it amazing!! Even I can’t claim
so much of knowledge about India Yaar. And, you know what, she even knows the
language…yeah…I mean she can even understand (though a little) Marathi too. 
I mean…I am really feeling inarticulate to express my
amazement that I felt in those few hours knowing that someone could be
#MoreIndianThanYouThink It was just incredible!!! But then...that makes me feel How Great My India as A Country is...a nation truly pluralistic having plethora of diversified cultures yet...a beautiful landscape on the earth.
Like Lufthansa Airlines....
YES, Sometimes people like Eileen Destiny know much more about India and are respectful much more to our specialities than we Indians.
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