ABSTRACT
Vijay Mishra lives in Vancouver, Canada, and he takes a bus from the University of British Columbia to downtown Vancouver. The bus is not crowded. He puts the money into the slot of the fare box. The bus driver, who is a white, blue-eyed Canadian, utters something and Vijay understands it as 'downtown eh', and he replies, 'yes', and sits down. As he settles down, he thinks that what he heard was not English but Hindi. A bit puzzled, he does not want to rule out that what he actually heard was the Hindi language. Infact, the driver had asked, 'do wnto wnjiinii he'. So Vijay asks:
maf kljiye, ap ne kya kaha? me ne pucha ki downtown jana he. are! ap to bahut acchI hindI bol sakte he. hfr, thoRI thoRI hindI bolleta hi!. hindI ap ne kahfr sIkhI? dusn World War ke samaya me British Army me smik tha. us samaya hindustan me sIkhL abhI bhI acchI hindI ad he. karl samaya se yoga aur meditation sIkh raM hu isliye hindI nahi b~IL ye to bahut accha he, nahl to yahfr hindustanI bhI hindI b~l jate he. ye bat to sac he.
