People sometimes say the funniest things. When they say these things, they betray some stereotypes, preconceived notions, prejudices and bigotry they have. Hopefully, this will be a recurring segment of the blog, like the Random Observations. But for now, let's assume that it's a one-off. #1 Last summer, I was in Vijayawada for a couple of days. I had a laptop with me and stopped at a tea stall. A stranger approached me and asked, quite disarmingly, if I was a software engineer. Perhaps, the laptop suggested this to him. I replied in the negative. Then, he looked at me and asked, "Are you a Muslim?" Perhaps, the beard suggested this to him. I again replied in the negative. (Although in hindsight, I should've just asked him to mind his own business.) Thankfully, the man was done guessing. This time, he just asked me, "What do you do?" I told him that I was a student working on getting my post-graduate degree in Communication. To this, the man