Stranger anxiety

Well this is what everybody was telling about ....
Akshaj has started crying whenever some stranger holds him ..though it is not that worse as after some half an hour he gets settled down and starts laughing with them and goes with them as well.
On sunday we went to some of P's friends house for his parents 50'th anniverary .There were lots of other guests there.Now Akshaj has been a centre of attraction in our house ...every body is always around him giving thier total attention (like in every home).But in the party there were two guests who were talking among themselves and didn't see him..he kept on watching them for a long time but to no avail ..they still didn't see him ..so what does he do ..the poor baby started crying ..new place on top of it getting ignored it was too much to handle for the little one ..