Indians and Pets

Seeing pictures of my mom's pets, a European friend sarcastically asked me "do all Indian pets look like this? frail and hungry looking? to which I replied, 

"Some Indians have the record of having the biggest and probably the most expensive pets in this world.

They are so big that they are denied entry into our house because they are ELEPHANTS

RUSSIAN AND SANSKRIT

Many in India were critical about Nehru's policy of left-leaning democracy and his affinity for Soviet Union in the height of cold war.

The oldest (US) and the largest (India) democracies in the world have only one thing in common; English-speaking people. 

When I try to learn bit of this beautiful language (Russian), I realize the amazing similarity in words and grammatical construction among Sanskrit and Russian with an array of vocabulary which is unparalleled in other languages. No wonder literary colossus like Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Dostoevsky walked upon this land.

Now English to me appears as a poor cousin in the Indo-European languages, though naval superiority of Britain and an 'extended village' (from Atlantic to Pacific) called USA made it the 'world language.