Deals and Desis

Folks who are out in the US working for CTS, TCS, STC, TSC and companies with other permutation combination of these letters would know that deals and desis (Indians who live abroad esp US) are more or less synonymous!

As Russel Peter says in one of his stand-up comedies, Indian people cannot live without a bargain!



From a spare charger to a laptop, desis derive immense pleasure in striking a dead cheap bargain and they are ecstatic when they share the deal info with a co-desi (not a bad word :D) and smell the fumes from the other person's stomach (a metaphor to explain jealousy!)... It's a really interesting site to watch one person talking non-stop for 30 mins explaining all the features of the product from the number of screws to the way it was delivered while the other person is listening just because he has no other option! Things get even worse when these people get back to India and start and end sentences purposefully with a 'in US' like "In US, we don't pay for any recreation... all tax payers get these facilities for free which is the best part in US". Man... I should say I enjoy these scenes a lot! Btw, did I tell you that I got a HP Laptop 2.2 Ghz, 3 GB RAM, 250 GB HDD, Finger print reader, HD DVD Disc, 256 MB NVIDIA et al. for 1080$ only including shipping and tax? ;) :p