2> You wake up at 5 in the morning as all the pressure cookers in the locality will be blaring away to glory in making that all so delicious sambhar.
3> The shopping streets will have shops names Saravana stores, Saravana furniture, Saravana Bhavan, Saravana tailors...
4> 3 out of every 5 women you find walking in the street will be having either a Nallis or a Pothis bag.
5> No billboards on the street
6> You meet a lot of IT people with nice Nick Names like SHANKY.. and when you ask them their real name it goes like - Shivaramakrishnan Venkatanarayan
And if you probe further as to how they got their Nick Name, you'd get to know that some white guy would have given them that name during his onsite posting.
