Thursday, December 17, 2009

No ice cream for you and me

Did anyone see this poster at the new Haagen Dazs outlet in Delhi? Only "international passport holders" are allowed.

The image that immediately flashed before me was the scene from Mard where Amitabh takes down the bald British guy in the hotel pool for not allowing Indians and dogs. Of course, that movie was set in the early days of the East India Company.

At first I thought this adverisement was a hoax, but apparently it's genuine. What were they thinking?

1 comment:

Rahil said...

Can't remember the name of the 5 star hotel (I think Ashoka), but in the summer they have the pool open on Sunday's to non hotel guests for free. Only caveat is that you have to be non Indian!
It's more common than you think