To stay or not to stay in India

India the country I was born and raised in is not the country I enjoy staying in. No I am not the one who says hail US and who plans to run away but India is not the country I hope it would be. Slogged by the rusted bureaucratic chain, idiot people and loss of culture. People don’t have manners or respect forget about the word honour. Talking cheap and doing uncivilised things are the name of the game now. Sex is so open that it has lost its charm. People divided, there is no voice that we are Indians but that I am a dalit, I am a Marathi manoos and so on.

Indians hate rules and worse are the traffic rules, driving in opposite lane, jumping lights and blocking roads is too common here.  Neither the pedestrians nor the motorist care about Zebra crossing, I think most even don’t know what those white stripes are for. Politician are no good either, votes are won by talking against others and paying money. I didn’t know this until a local MNS politician confessed of doing this.

Police as we know it is useless too. No one wants to work and every one expects bribe. Bribe not for asking him to do something wrong but to do the right thing too. Logging an FIR at a police station means that one has to pay atleast Rs 100/- This is a nominal fee where the police doesn’t have to do much work but if the case is difficult then expect them to say no straight on the face or be ready to pay good sum.

aaa thu… look back and you would know someone has spit. Look further and you can see someone peeing on the roadside. Eat something and throw the wrapper anywhere – yes India is a dustbin you can throw anything anywhere.

Education is awesome. Most students in government schools are taught a simple thing from childhood, don’t ask why. Parents at home do the same… most of them don’t want to answer too many question and result is a huge population most who don’t ask why? So you can expect a lot of people even from the science background knowing stuff and ask them why is that so and they would be blank.

A happiness Index survey had put Indians in list of more than 150 countries below 100. We Indians see the glass as half empty and seldom as half full. No wonder those who are smart or sensible also want to leave India. People give examples of Indians getting beaten up in Oz land and I tell them that in Maharashtra north Indians were beaten to death and in many cases the news never came. In my own country I feel alienated so why should care about some auzi. My brain says go abroad but somehow my heart says no. I was born here and I shall die here too.

Bombay to Mumbai

A simple change of a name of the city world knows as Bombay. Its not the people outside but the people in country itself. But someone somewhere in Maharashtra not doing well in politics decided to woo the public which he/she couldn’t satisfy with better social status. So what he and his party do? They come up with an idea of changing the name of the city from Bombay to Mumbai. Its amazing that how people in India actually forget the basic needs and suddenly woo the politition. And so we the tax payers bang our heads when our money is used to change the everything that was Bombay to Mumbai so that some one has an ego issue solved which was not there in the first place but raised only by a polition. Imagine a confusion a foreigner would have after he/she comes to know that there is no Bombay in India. Imagine I go on internet to book my ticket for LA and search says no result found.
But do the politicians care? – NO. Do the locals care – only some. Rest prove once again in this democratic country that we Indians are fools and have less IQ than the Indian media has been telling us. The politicians know this very well and use it time and again and then we crib that our (India’s) condition is not that great.

Men and money

White shirt, white pant , dirty slippers but a thick gold chain hanging from the neck.  Doesn’t the guy have anything better to spend on than to decorate himself with gold? What next? Lipstick? There are a lot of people like him in India with a lot of black money (money unaccounted for legally) and they have no idea of what to do with it. And the worse part it that there are men who are actually impressed by these men.

I was talking to a govt servant who was all awe at the money a local politician had made. Talking about the grand party he had. And it made me think that there are men like this too.  People who are impressed with people having lots of money, where they got it from is not whats important but how they waste it is. And then they look back at their life and feel sorry at their lives.

Will the real man please stand up!