Cycle of Cliches
I couldn’t hold back mine.
That was perhaps the moment. I didn’t know before, it was that easy to make new friends. Smiles made friends of strangers.
“Itsh da shame, bai da vay,” Kexob shot back, and well, in English. He meant, as I perceived, “It’s the same, by the way.” Like most of the people from our region, Kexob also mixed up his ‘sh’, ‘s’ and ‘ch’ sounds while speaking in English or Hindi. And his voiced ‘th’ sound was more akin to the hard ‘d’ sound!