Sneeze Please: Firangs ko allergy kyon aata hain?
Hey....I was in the newspaper the other day. Unfortunately, this was in no way due to my sweeping humanitarian efforts or any of my various achievements in the worlds of business, science or technology. Rather, by virtue merely of being a foreigner here in Hyderabad, I was photographed and briefly interviewed for an article regarding whether foreigners here suffer from allergies. I have an acquaintance who's a reporter at The Hindu, one of the more well-respected national newspapers here (I STILL haven't figured out the paper's name, given that it has no religious affiliation whatsoever), and he asked whether I could contribute to his story.
Anyway, the best part of all this was the "photo session", during which I was asked to fake various sneeezes, coughs and nose-blowings for the camera. And while the end result is clearly not the most attractive of photos, I do believe I come across reasonably well as a cold-and-allergy sufferer. Here's the link to the article in The Hindu.
posted by David @ 1:55 AM
4 Comments:
Dave
You missed you calling. You should have been an actor. Think of all the products you could be endorsing on TV here in the states.
Thanks for the update
Mike (SF)
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Dave
Terrific web site. Loved reading it all. Even Mom loved it.
Dad
Mike - As I recall, YOU were once featured in a newspaper ad for some flower show in California (c'mon...I know you saved the clipping somewhere!). It strikes me as a bit eerie - you with flowers, me with allergies. Hmmmmm....interesting connnection, no? - Dave
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