Brown Men dont Smile!!

I did it again! I claimed another victim. While walking in the park ( India Gate...i was out for a picnic with my church friends) the other day I met another Indian guy and he looked at me in disbelief. I didn’t do anything outlandish but i swear he was grotesquely strange . I smiled at him out of the way..dint know why?? He must have concluded I was an Indian mutant with extra face muscles enabling me to exert a smile. But the weirdest of all was when he turned to look at me and said so impolitely Kya Hai !!! I actually have learnt that smiling at other Indians is a strict no-no. We don’t smile at each other. I never understood why we approach each other with caution. Here is the Must-do list in case you meet the same guy...

a) Under no circumstances make an eye contact. Pretend he is transparent and look through him.
b) In the unthinkable event that you actually made eye contact, give him the “are you trying to steal my job” look.
c) If the other guy stretches his lips into an expression unknown to you, look at him as if he were an alien.

But i should say out of all i won of being a schtick.