Many Indians are startled when they are rebuked by Westerners for being too curious about their personal lives, or too familiar with their children. By contrast, affluent West has for generations afforded to give every child a separate bedroom, a world of their own. This may have something to do with the fact that in India’s poor and overcrowded settlements there is no notion of privacy men and women are used to sharing stuff with family members, even friends. Westerners are very particular about private space. It really stems from the differing attitudes towards space. Indian films do not mind showing men hugging and dancing with each other, but kisses between men and women were blocked by flowers! Western films showed men and women kissing but rarely did you see men dancing with each other. It is only now that Hollywood is realising the power of bromance (deep almost-romantic relationships between men), something that has long inspired Bollywood films. Thus differently people see the world differently and value public displays of affection differently based on different measuring scales. The assumption is that all affection between members of the same sex is friendly (it cannot be sexual) and all affection between members of the same sex is sexual (it cannot be friendly). Indian society, by contrast, is comfortable with public display of sakha bhaav, not shringara bhaav. But West is not comfortable with public display of sakha bhava that it often confuses with homosexuality. Western society is comfortable with public display of shringara bhava (only heterosexual in conservative West and both heterosexual and homosexual in liberal West). The West will classify public displays of affection between adults in sexual terms as heterosexual and homosexual, Indians will classify public displays of affection between adults more in emotional terms as shringara bhava and sakha bhaav. Of the two public displays of affection, one between members of the opposite gender that was clearly romantic is known in Indian aesthetics as shringara bhaav and the other between members of the same gender which is friendly and familial is known in Indian aesthetics as sakha bhaav. No one walking past was giving them a second glance. A bit later, I noticed two members of the housekeeping staff, both men, holding hands, while taking a break. Everyone who walked past was giving them a second glance. But the cuddling between the couple was a bit intimate for the public space.
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They were clearly exhausted travellers waiting for a flight. Recently, I walked into the Mumbai airport lounge and saw on one of the wide sofas a man and a woman taking a nap, spooned into each other.