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I was 17, and they were too. I was wearing a faded blue Levis, a cassette of Michael Jackson's Thriller hidden safely in my hip pocket. If they saw it, I was dead. It was my first week in an engineering college, and my peer group had just changed from Delhi Public School's IIT assembly lin...
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| Published in | India today. North American edition p. 92 |
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| Format | Magazine Article |
| Language | English |
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New Delhi
Living Media India, Limited
20.02.2006
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| Summary: | I was 17, and they were too. I was wearing a faded blue Levis, a cassette of Michael Jackson's Thriller hidden safely in my hip pocket. If they saw it, I was dead. It was my first week in an engineering college, and my peer group had just changed from Delhi Public School's IIT assembly line products to boys my age from Bhatinda, Benaras and Basawkalyan, and so had the meaning of peer group pressure. One more word of English and I would be 'Ya Ya-ed', the worse form of treatment reserved for public school boys from Delhi and Mumbai. They would ask you a question about your city, and the moment the first word left your mouth, they would gleefully begin chanting 'Yeah, Yeah, Yeah...' in a chorus that could cut all your hipness borne out of Grammy Award recordings and Yes Minister episodes to shreds. |
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| Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-1 content type line 24 SourceType-Magazines-1 |
| ISSN: | 0254-8399 |