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Not just girls, diamonds are a Gujju’s best friend too,
The freshest arrivals are the millennial techies who run
the user interface for banks and financial centres specially for couriers of the stones
from Palanpore). They consign about a $1 Right Up To The Top
million worth of loose diamonds to different Fast forward to the clear and present danger.
retailers all over USA but their Wall Street The second generation with the right accent
is LA. You ask why? My man, LA is just an but protégées none the less have come of
acronym for Hollywood where bling is King. age with degrees from Ivy Leagues and
Exploiting Hollywood’s addiction of all as privileged as the WASPs (White Anglo
addictions that tops Coke and Ecstasy, this Saxon Protestants – suffice it for now) who
community dangled DIAMONDS and fund those colleges. Even the White House
inveigled themselves into partnerships is now infested with Gujjus and Governor
at major Production Houses and Studios. Christie is running for dear life, crying: ‘Are
You don’t believe me? Have you seen La La there no more safe havens in USA?’ The halls
Land – it’s a Bollywood musical with nasal are teeming with a Mehta here, a Parikh
sounding Jewish actors. Word has it that there, and a Shah and Patel everywhere. Like
Priyanka Chopra marrying Nick Jonas was locusts they have swarmed Pennsylvania
an arranged affair by these power monger Avenue, and many other metropolitan
Shah’s who want to slowly control the music cities. Politics notwithstanding, the freshest
industry. Why do you think the Ambanis arrivals are the millennial techies from Surat
inter marry into Jain families? How do you and Rajkot who run the user interface for
think every 10th production in Hollywood is major banks and financial centres. These
‘Annapurna’ production? H1B 3 year contract visa holders (otherwise
known to you as baap lakh chhappan
hajaar), have made pav vada and vodka
noodles the talk of Michelin 3 restaurants.
Call them Gujjus, call them names but
USA acknowledges that when Spacex
explores the new frontiers there will be a
Jetha somewhere with a bowl of khichdi and
shak, a smile, a greeting of ‘halo re halo!’ and
interplanetary beings dancing to the tune of
‘dholi taro dhol baajey, dhol baajey, dhol… ke
If it’s Navratri it must be Dandiya Night, whether in
Chembur or Calgary dhum dhum baajey dhol.’
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