The BSE climbs up 1000 points and reaches a new landmark! Team India wins the T20 World Cup! Indian movie soars for Oscar! IIM-A Graduate gets job with annual earning of 67 lacs!
These were just some examples of success, more definitely progress in individual lives. But is the country really PROGRESSING? That is one question which haunts every Indian. Maybe India has introduced standards of international living but are they sufficient? The golden words to mark this is "The Rich keep getting Richer and the Poor keep getting POOR". However this has been proved worthless today. Everyone earns money but are too miserly to separate from it.
Personal gain is what matters at some level, and you can call it a disgrace on patriotism. This term has been the binding factor, the freedom factor, but are we really living to emphasize the real meaning of the word?
The word does not say that we help our country by providing monetary support but provide it the mental freedom and the feeling of equality every citizen deserves.
Equality is another word which is alien here. Citing a personal example, I was at a local restaurant once, and a very senior person who worked there asked me,"Kahiye SAHAB kya lenge?" Though I never paid attention that time, it is now I am wondering that the word SAHAB means so much. Hospitality maybe one of the criteria but the real reason is the man loves his job more than anything else. He has the burden of supporting a family. However I believe hospitality should never be compromised at the cost of self-respect and equality.
Everything is so smooth in the United States. A person can live normally even by working as a waiter/usher or all other jobs which are considered to be downtrodden in India. The sense of equality has been implemented with real character. Millions of job oppurtunities and earnings which supplement a great livelihood. Everything is just so SIMPLE. Supermarkets are nearby and they sell everything. The underlying idea here is that the standard of living is so good, that people dont have to waste time thinking about major family problems like housing,food,etc.
Government schools provide a standard level of education with various facilites to help students soar higher. Here, no one even thinks of getting into a government school. The city has been planned to its very detail and stringent laws also prohibit the throwing of garbage,etc. The basic building blocks of a country are its people and the way they present their country to others. Millions of problems squeeze out the life of people here. Public transport is over-crowded, traffic never seems to diminish, ameneties just keep getting costlier and costlier.
I am not comparing India to the United States or any other country but giving an outlook where WE have gone wrong. Areas where we need to improve so that our country is not regarded as 3rd world country.
This land is ours. Take care of it! ;)
P.S. - I am not a writer like J.K.Rowling or Dan Brown. But a writer's best critic are the readers. I would be very grateful if you would take the pains of commenting on what you really felt. Thank you!
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Yup, we're progressing economically, technically and all that. But socially, we're as down-trodden as ever. There's no such thing as dignity of labour here. And laws? What laws? We have a looooong way to go...
Another thoughtful post Mehul. A topic on which all of us think of, but have never really bothered to solve.
Oh...but the most accurate part of this post was........that you're not Rowling or Dan Brown! :P Kidding mate, you write well enough...its just a bit abrupt. Otherwise, take a bow!
thanks a lot! lol! yea i din want it 2 b really long, so i covered what i wanted to say in short! ;)
Its a problem with mentality really. We cant do simple things like queuing up, observing lane discipline, or refrain from littering, and such things.
So now we'll blame the government that we don't have decent roads or any dustbins. True, but even when the infrastructure is in place, we do not make use of it.
All we need is a bit of discipline.
lets ask ppl 2 learn lane discipline from us! lol!
thoughtful blog post...
One thing which u missed out our country is where people fight to prove that they are backward!!
I know our lane discipline is exemplary, but then again why do we do that? Cos some fucking idiotic female who's scared to be at the wheel is driving at 40 in the first lane.
hopefully that wasnt ur girlfriend the other day! :P. she was trying to pick a car up with a.c. on in the 3rd gear yaar...what a show off!
@ anurag- sexist!!!!
lets write a new post! Anurag=SEXIST?
hey damn good!!that waiter thing..really,i never thought of it b4..why?i feel ashamed now!
very true that we have a gr8 scope of improvement in our country..improvement in terms of equality,in terms of religious harmony,in terms of dicipline,population control,education system etc.etc..
but we are discussing it so much but cant we do smthing abt it?i mean we have to do our part...but also the government too needs to get a life!!
mehul,u get my lazy brains to start thinking haan..good wrk!
thanks a ton! ;)
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