''When we meet someone, we do not just meet that person, but also their culture.""
This is a brief account of my AMD Raghav's first meeting with our Trinadad friend, Fazeela Mollick.
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When we look at something we look from eyes, that is perspectives, we have formulated or accumulated from our experiences over time. But we are still just a minute unit of the whole creation and it is not feasible for us to have the wholesome and appropriate knowledge of all the elements or the perspectives through which they can be understood. So, when Raghav and I met Fazeela for breakfast in Khan market, the three of us were to begin a journey of learning about perspectives with which we looked at our culture and other cultures. Fazeela, being the more mature member and a little more travelled, bestowed upon us the knowledge about the oddly shaped buttery French dish, which Raghav and I were totally clueless about, when served. "What do I do with this?" Is what Fazeela suggested our faces read like. We laughed at this. And we laughed again when I asked with utmost sincerity, "No, seriously, what are we to do with this?" As if it was not difficult enough to comprehend what the dish was, its name "croissant" needed a heavy workout for our tongues to pronounce. Fazeela suggested that the French cook at L'opera had prepared the dish the way it should be prepared, Raghav's taste buds wondered why didn't he rather experiment. I didn't mind trying something new. Fazeela sang a couple of lines in French for us in her melodious voice. She then requested a cheerful gentleman to click our photograph as she was not a great fan of selfies. A photograph of two Indians and a Trini having a breakfast in a French restaurant in India. And that is just how we started.
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