Your experience is well taken. I am a north Indian serving in armed forces and I am not a brahmin but am a Hindu. I came to Chennai in Jul 2004. I also faced lot of problems in renting a house.You were looking to buy a house, here I am talking abt renting. The objections ranged from eating egg (which I anyway decided not to) to being the percieved image of Military person having liquor in house to the almost ludicrous one of one gentleman going in so far as matching our horoscope with his to rent us his house.
But being here ,I have accepted it. This is part of our culture, perceptions and ofcourse in the case of Chennai of exposure.
So I do not think this is new. People do not want to come out of their comfort Zone and the world should be as what their perceptions are. Unfortunately it is not so. Having said this, I can also say I got lot of affection from people here, understood a bit of their culture, traditions,customs and I think I can justify to myself why majority of people felt that way.
I was asked to learn Tamil by many people when we had difficulty communicating.We were almost reduced to the prehistoric ancestry of using sign language.But these things are ther
