T is for Travel

Everyone in India has a 'Native' (pronounced nate-ew). Some may choose to elaborate and call it their Native-place. The most popular holiday destination for people in India is their Native, and when they say that, they mean it is their home-town. Sometimes, you come across people who weren't born in, or may have only visited their Native once in their entire lives, but get very excited when they meet somebody else who is also from their Native. They discuss the exact location of the houses they never lived in, and give directions they can't remember to the houses they never lived in.

Natives are usually small towns or villages. If anyone every claims that their Native is a big city, they'd have a hard time convincing their audience of that. In fact, if this big city happens to be the same big city where this person was born, raised, and still lives, there is no way that anyone would believe them. It's unheard of. Where would they go on vacation?

If the most popular holiday destination is one's Native, then next in line would be 'Foreign'. People go to Foreign all the time. And they love to boast about it. Whether its Singapore or Sacramento, Toronto or Turin, Dublin or Dubai, people either seem to not be able to tell the difference, or just like the word 'Foreign'.

So the next time you see an Indian family on holiday, you should quite easily be able to tell whether they're in Foreign or in their Native by just knowing whether you're in India or not.