Money=Progress?

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!