Yes ji, no ji, three bags full ji.
The addition of the ‘ji’ to your vocabulary in New Delhi suddenly become part of your speech within, maybe, a couple of days of staying in India’s capital.
Whether you’re speaking in English, or trying to dodge speaking in Hindi, your answer will always be haanji (yes) or nahinji (no).
Ubiquitous is how the ji feels like two weeks in.
Oh, and the Hindi is so far removed from the bastardisation Anglo-Urdu-Marathi version spoken in Pune, that on the phone I genuinely cannot understand what is being said.
Haanji, it’s crazy.
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