Indian expats sing and dance to celebrate victory

Calcutta News.Net
Sunday 3rd April, 2011

The Indian diaspora around the world danced to drumbeats, waving the tricolour at their homes and out in the streets as Team India won the cricket World Cup.

The celebrations were spread across cities like New York, Dubai, London and Montreal.

Websites like YouTube carried several videos posted by Indian expats of wild celebrations in foreign lands.

London celebrated the most with long lines of cars with fluttering tricolours moving along the city streets. Thousands took to the streets and fireworks lit up the evening sky.

In New York, groups of Indians with cricket bats - not very popular among the baseball crazy Americans - and tricolours in their hands paraded the streets chanting 'Sachin di ho gayi balle balle' (Sachin has done it) and 'Jeet gaya bhai jeet gaya, India jeet gaya' (India has won).

Similar scenes were seen in Dubai, where thousands of Indians work and live.

They burst firecrackers and danced with the national flag, hugging each other. The roads in city areas like Bur Dubai and Karama, where Indians throng, were jammed with cars flying the tricolour.

In Montreal, large groups of Indians took out car rallies with tricolours stuck on their bonnets and boots.

Excited expats cheered from the open roofs of their cars while popular Punjabi songs provided the right ambience for the revellers to turn the roads into a dancing floor.

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