I have studied in Innsbruck (Austria) and Rome (I am studying in Rome right now since February 2015). I have also traveled to many places in Italy, Austria and Germany. To my surprise, I have always met people who knew a lot about India and are quite fascinated by everything related to India. There are many incidences I could share here but I would like to point out one which is my favorite:
I have an American Classmate. Both he and his wife are crazy about India. They love and cook Indian food, they watch Bollywood movies (Lagaan is their favorite movie and they literally know all the songs in Lagaan and even the dance moves by heart!). There are many other things which they like about India. I am studying Astrophysics and in most of the classes we are writing some mathematical equations involving some variables which are represented by some English or Latin or sometimes Greek symbols. So one day while writing the hydro-static equilibrium equation for a star, he got tired of all the mess created by symbols and he goes like - 'I am quite tired of this mess here and I am gonna assign the Devnagri letter 'ka' - 'क' to a bunch of other letters and simplify the matters'! I immediately took the photo and was quite amazed! :) How cool is that!
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