Indian-ness instilled

     My brother, I have never seen him as a Guardian, or an elder brother, or a dad; even though he is three years elder than me. I've always seen him as a friend. A friend who got me into trouble sometimes, and got me out of troubles most of the times; a friend who knew I'm eating paper then too couldn't say no; a friend who was with me when my biggest accident took place, just behind me. Cutting short, he's just like a best friend.
        But this is not about my relationship with my brother, it's of the constraints that i deny on his being elder. It just happened yesterday that I had to tell him a joke(which was cracked in college between friends, a typical non veg one) and I had to say the hindi word for male part, and it couldn't come out from my mouth.
           I'm not trying to be noble by saying that i couldn't use typical abusive language, which we used to use in schools amongst friends in front of my brother, but this is strange enough to deserve a blog. Even in front of any girl, I can't even sqeeze out the "L" word. My friend, who uses a minimum of three abuses in one sentence has had it with me many a times. May be this is the traditional values I took up while growing up cursing the same values.

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