Occidentally Yours Sushi, shopping malls, Starbucks: tales of culture shock for back home by Somnath Batabyal Come the month of August and the queues outside the British Council and the American Centre stretch interminably. Students on their way to either country come in for last-minute guidance, orientation lectures and to procure brightly coloured guidebooks on how to behave in foreign lands. Trust me, it’s a waste of time. Now this is a while back, but I remember one such lecture delivered by a dinosaur of a British gentleman who told a small, shocked gathering of students, yours...