Background, Casually is just a way of introducing oneself which the poet is trying to do it here in this poem.
How to introduce oneself in a novel way? How to be acquainted with?
How to ntroduce it in an interesting way, a funny manner? How to be introduced with? This too is a modern style.
Nissim tries to remember his school days, how he was. How was he when he used to read in a Catholic school?
A Jew he was in the middle of the Hindus and the Muslims partaking in their jokes.
Nissim here acts in just as an announcer for himself laced with gimmicks, irony, fun, humour and caricature. A mouthpiece, a spokesman for himself.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem