Identity

We just shifted our house from T Nagar to Velachery in Chennai so that we are more close to office and need not travel much. New place means you have to start again from scratch, find new newspaper person, new milk-man, new grocery store, new etc etc...amongst all these things most important is new house maid. Luckily we got one the day we shifted. The problem we face here in Chennai is language. We can understand and speak li'l bit of Tamil and the maid can understand a li'l bit of english, so basically the communication is a mix English words, Tamil words and sign language :-). One day this new maid servant of ours was trying to have a conversation with my wife and she was asking about our native place. My wife told her we are from Maharashtra, but the maid did not know the place and could not understand, so my wife told her names of cities like Mumbai, Pune but the maid did not know these either and we were surprised that she did not know Mumbai. Then my wife asked her, "Do you know Sachin Tendulkar?" and the maid said yes with a smile. So my wife told her that we are from the same region and it's known as Maharashtra. That day I realised that Sachin Tendulkar or any famous personality for that matter can be identity, even if people do not know a certain region/state/country famous personalities of that region provide an identity to that region and it's people outside.