I stopped at a small mobile-phone shop in Kathmandu. I wanted to ask a few things. The shopkeeper must have been around 30, a very friendly person. He spoke to me in Nepali; I answered politely in Hindi. He continued with Nepali; I went on with Hindi. We were already talking! Then he shifted to Hindi. I asked him whether I could buy a charger for my Chinese mobile.
'Are you not a Nepali?'
'No.'
'What are you?'