Tandoori Texan Tales

Raj Dor is a Software Engineer hailing from a very orthodox South-Indian Brahmin family. He was born in Hyderabad (Sind), now in Pakistan, before the Partition.
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If nothing else, at least ask for an autograph and show proudly to my friends. My collection of autographs included stars from several walks of life, Cricketers, Statesmen, visiting celebrity Speakers at the College functions and yes, Movie Stars. But now things were so different, after having entered real workaday world. It seemed so silly for somebody to do that at my station in life. You are less inclined to take the risk of your pride being hurt. Besides, it was so obvious to me that she was quite insistent on not being recognized. I gave up that whole idea. I continued cranking on my laptop keyboard.

This report was due at Release of funds for the whole Project depended upon our convincing the Departmental Heads of our capabilities at meeting the goals. Getting involved in hobnobbing with movie stars wanting to remain anonymous was way down on my list of priorities. Usually I schedule these periodic trips home at least a month ahead of time. But my trip previous week had to be rescheduled for this week, at the last minute.

It had been impossible for me to get a direct flight from Dallas to Raleigh. The Little Rock Airport is a relatively small wayside airport with much fewer facilities. The stopover was for some 45 minutes.

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Some of us got down to walk around in the airport. I gathered my briefcase, shoulder bag and the laptop. Then I came out of the plane slowly walking down the gangway. As I was browsing at the gift shop, I looked through the corner of my eyes. She had also got down and was browsing at another corner of the shop. The lounge was inside the Secure Area and I wanted to remain within that. I did not find anything interesting at the shop.

I settled down at a lounge chair and resumed working on the report. However I saw that she had wandered out of the secure area, possibly to look around other shops outside. Some ten minutes before boarding time, I once again put all of my stuff together to get back into the flight. As I passed along the boarding gate, I heard some altercation near the Security Check area. Curious as to what could it be, I looked around to find that the Security Guard was having some heated arguments with her.

There was obviously some problem as she was trying to get back through the Security Check. I might have kept walking, minding my own business. As luck would have it, I came toward the scene of disturbance and volunteered to intervene. The Security people were keen that she be strip searched and thoroughly examined as they considered her a security risk. She on the other hand was quite insistent that she should not be put to any such humiliation. As it happens in most such instances, there were also probably plenty of communication gaps. She conversing in her convent educated British accent and they trying to convey their thoughts in heavy Southern flair.

As there were plenty of people waiting behind her to get in, the scene of altercation was moved into another location while the rest of the passengers were allowed to keep moving. The other location happened to be the office of Sergeant Steve McKlusky, as it was announced on the brass plate outside its door. There was a glass panel that secluded the office from rest of the lounge, making it possible for outsiders to see but not hear, what was going on within.

He was not in the chamber at that time. The former was an African American while the latter, a Hispanic young lady. They were trying to interrogate her in all possible ways and she was being defiant. I knocked on the door, slowly opened it and literally stuck my neck into that confrontation. Could you use some help? Yes, we sure can use some help. I wondered if they focussed their suspicion on her due to her attire and looks, but decided not to exacerbate the situation by kicking in more controversy.

As a matter of fact, we as passengers feel so much more confident of travelling because of good Officers like you. She already went through one Security Check while boarding at Dallas, is it not?

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Please let me tell you further that, I am Dr. Rohit Sharma holding a Ph. Please allow me assure you that this young lady is no potential or real Terrorist. You could safely let her go. I would like to show you something in private. I flipped to the 9th page. On the one side it had a large picture of Archana Roy being crowned Miss Universe from a couple of years ago.

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There was a write up on her as well. I strongly suggest you drop the whole case and quietly back off. Otherwise there is going to be plenty of ugly publicity for everybody, especially you. If you wish, you may call Sergeant McKlusky at home and ask. I doubt whether that is the route you all wish to take. I closed the briefcase and walked out of the room, back into the lounge. I saw her coming out of the room as well.


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American Airlines Flight had taken off in the meantime without us. There was another flight via Minneapolis reaching Raleigh at 2AM. Even that was full and I was going to be 15th on the waiting list, not a good chance, by any means. If I did not show up with that report, Don Wilsner would cut me into pieces and eat raw with his salad for lunch. I called him from the nearest telephone kiosk. Thank God, I was able to get through.

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I asked her how UNC was faring so far. Not too good, she said. That means Don was going to be in a sullen mood.