A close call in Mumbai
So there we were, all settled in at Out of the Blue, for an evening of high entertainment. Coffees, cakes, three wireless laptops and three sets of headphones between four people to listen to WHYS first broadcast from India.
All going well, enjoying listening to Ros, Anu and the passionate crowd in Chandigarh, when Supriya gets a phone call from a friend of hers in blind panic...
It turns out Supriya's pal had sneakily sent her parents off to watch a four hour Bollywood movie, leaving her home alone to spend some quality time with her boyfriend before he flew out on Tuesday to complete his studies in Australia. But that鈥檚 where the fun kind of stopped for them. Either the movie was boring or her parents smelt a rat, and an hour and a half in to the epic film, back they came.
When she heard the key in the door of her 14th floor apartment, I think it was all she could do to not scream and throw him out of the window of her bedroom. No, being a sensible and level headed girl she 鈥渒icked鈥 him under the foot wide gap beneath her bed, so her parents wouldn鈥檛 find him and go crazy at her.
The next hour was spent in conference calls between Supriya at the coffee bar, the girl in question lying in her bed giving the impression she was sleeping, and her boyfriend under the bed holding his breath every time her parents walked in.
This story does have a happy ending; he got out - eventually. Once they could hear the girls father snoring in the adjacent room he made his escape and ran for his life while the rest of us caught up with him outside the apartment block so we could hear all about the great escape.
To me it brought home the reality of what I was talking about in my previous blog post.
Times are changing, young couples here are becoming more and more brave about their relationships. But they know that in reality their parents find it very hard to accept, and so take risks. But when we were discussing it this morning, it seems many of the girls I spoke to decided that the only way to make their parents accept it, is to keep taking those risks..
On to other matters now and I had some very good news today about our Mumbai programme, the ISDN lines will be going in tomorrow so we should be ready to rock and roll on Thursday and Friday with a packed crowd at Koyla and the flat in Mahlaxmi West.
It鈥檚 always a bit scary setting up programmes abroad because the ISDN lines that we use to broadcast from are a bit hit and miss. But Supriya has worked her magic and pulled a few very very long strings to make sure it all gets done, thank goodness.
So if you鈥檙e reading this and you live in Mumbai and would like to come along to either one of our venues drop an email over to us at WHYS and the guys back at the office will tell you were you need to be and when. And don鈥檛 forget to come armed with the list of talking points you want to discuss!
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