Dinner time is that\u00a0time of the day when the Bachwani family\u00a0gathers around the dining table for\u00a0a good meal and conversation. Every once in a while, we\u00a0try to ask interesting questions of each other, giving every one at the table a chance to respond.<\/p>\n
Here’s what happened one\u00a0fine evening…<\/p>\n
I asked the family: “Which Indian personality would you like to meet in person, if there\u00a0were no\u00a0constraints whatsoever?” Once we had all the answers, I expanded\u00a0the question to include foreign persons, folks that are no longer alive (Indian or foreign), and finally, any fictional character.<\/p>\n
It was a fascinating exercise in discovering\u00a0our respective lenses and (current) priorities. And, I’m sure it will make for a great\u00a0conversation, some\u00a0day, when these answers are long forgotten…<\/p>\n
Tiger <\/strong>(all of 8 years old!)<\/p>\n Indian alive –\u00a0Zakir Hussain (Tabla maestro) Pumpkin\u00a0<\/strong>(12 years)<\/p>\n Indian alive –\u00a0Hrithik Roshan\u00a0(Filmstar) The Mrs.<\/strong><\/p>\n Indian alive – Farhan Akhtar\u00a0(Filmstar) Me<\/strong><\/p>\n Indian alive – Raghuram Rajan\u00a0(RBI Governor, Economist) There you have it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dinner time is that\u00a0time of the day when the Bachwani family\u00a0gathers around the dining table for\u00a0a good meal and conversation. Every once in a while,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-wonder-years"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/beingdad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nForeigner alive – Ludacris (Rapper)
\nIndian dead – Mahatma Gandhi
\nForeigner dead – None
\nFictional character – Hulk, but without the anger!<\/p>\n
\nForeigner alive – Taylor Swift\u00a0(Pop Diva)
\nIndian dead – Mahatma Gandhi
\nForeigner dead –\u00a0Albert Einstein
\nFictional character – Katniss Everdeen (The Hunger Games)<\/p>\n
\nForeigner alive –\u00a0Barack Obama
\nIndian dead –\u00a0Jawaharlal Nehru
\nForeigner dead –\u00a0William Shakespeare
\nFictional character –\u00a0Richie Rich!<\/p>\n
\nForeigner alive –\u00a0Chris Nolan (Hollywood Director)
\nIndian dead –\u00a0Chanakya (Kingmaker, Strategist)
\nForeigner dead –\u00a0Richard Feynman (Nobel Laureate, Physicist)
\nFictional character –\u00a0Sherlock Holmes<\/p>\n