Does that statement looks logical enough?...I mean, how can Bhaarat be Mahaan, when 99% of it's so called jantaa is be-imaan?...Either the statistics mentioned in this statement is wrong or we Indians have a tendency to take pride in quoting those foolish statements which depicts nothing but our lack of original & logical thoughts.
Just because Shahrukh Khan quoted this statement in one of his movies, to create some kind of rhythm, the statement today has acceptance more than our National Anthem...We Indians consider ourselves to be emotional...but then this statement itself is illogical again...We are not just emotional, but EMOTIONAL FOOLS...
How easily did we start thinking that our country is independent and mahaan? The reason for this illogical thinking is that we DID NOT sacrifice anything to get this Independence. We got the independence for FREE…and it’s a world wide fact, that whatever is available for free is not so very valued.
That’s the reason why, we just tend to remember our country only during 15th August or/and 26th January…thereby hoisting flag, playing few patriotic movies & music, greeting people flawlessly by wishing them "Happy Independence / Republic Day" and doing all sorts of obnoxious things that we normally do not tend to do…
The big question is: What about the remaining 363 days?...where in everybody is so entangled in his/her encounters with life that we almost forget the word called India and its development.
The BIGGEST PROBLEM in this country is BEING A COMMON MAN. The world does not even recognize common people like Jagmohan Dasgputa, a grocery shop owner or Surajmal Sardesai, a gardener, or Haridas Shambharkar a clerk in Indian Railways or Lalkrishna Advani, a Hindu Politician or Bal Thakeray, a Maharashtrian Fundamentalist. These are the people who did nothing materialistic for the world, for a reason to be known by it. For that matter, any Michelle Hopkins in Hamburg or Michael Silvanus in New Hampshire DO surely recognize people like N. R. Narayanamurthy, Dheerubhai Ambani and Ratan Tata and so on and so froth…
Top class Software Engineers, Construction Professionals, Investment Bankers, Consultants, Scientists, Surgeons and Project Managers etc. are the people who are known not only in India, but also outside our national boundaries. People like these, bring recognition to our country. Today if India is being recognized by Europeans or US nationals, it’s only because of these educated and intellectual people. Please note, they do not know any common man of India…The irony is that we have a very less percentage of intellectual capital in India and more of common people…
And the Common Man of India is so very busy in celebrating Independence Day and feeling proud to be an Indian that he himself forgets that he has to be the one, who should be contributing to his nation by not being common. Even if he remembers, he is either not taking the plunge, or he is not daring to take stands in his life. On the contrary to this, he is very casual and satisfied with his life. Wow…what a waste of national talent?…
On a major scale, Religiously Fundamentalist Organizations, be it legal like VHP, Shiv-Sena, Bajrang Dal, RSS or illegal like Al-Kaida, Hizbul-Mujaheedin and so on and so froth target common people, provocate them and use them to fulfill their materialistic aspirations of acquiring power. At the end of the day, who loses?…Common Man…he he he…isn’t that silly enough? …These organizations, consisting mostly common people, hold protests against celebrating Valentines Day in India, thereby propagating that it is anti-Indian to celebrate the festival of love…and display man – woman affection. However, they don’t forget to worship Lord Krishna relentlessly, who used to do Raasleela not only with one, but hundreds of Gopi’s and that too publicly. The hard fact of life is that common people in India is not using his grey matter in analyzing things. Common Man in India feels that it is good to be conservative in expressing affection by kissing and touching, thereby branding these actions as European or American styles. He has created several boundaries where in people do hesitate in talking about sex openly, which otherwise is an integral part of any life...even yours. How foolish are they to forget that the world famous literature called Kama-sutra is actually an Indian creation and is well accepted not only in our Indian Mythology but also by most of the developed countries.
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar revolutionized the entire Constitution of India, by creating reservations for backward classes. Today, hundreds of educational reserved free seats remain vacant to such an extent that Maharashtra and other States have to re-conduct the entrances like CET and PET just to fill these seats. Still, people from backward classes do not go for studying. They quote several reasons, primary being…lack of money or poor governmental help and so on and so froth…WELL…THE TRUTH IS… they really don’t intend to acquire education…as other means of bread and butter seems to be very easy to them…consequently, they either end up working in garages or selling newspapers on traffic signals. I have witnessed these things personally, because I myself belong to Scheduled Caste and have spent close to twenty years living in slum areas of Nagpur wasting my precious time along with these people. I have seen many SC candidates using their Scholarship money in purchasing Jeans & T-shirts, taking their boyfriends & girlfriends to movie and spending illogically on silly things. They do everything with that money but they seldom purchase books and pay tuition fees out of it. And when I used to apply my candidature through General Seats, they used to comment on me that I should not do this…even if I don’t want the scholarship money, I should take it for them to meet their pocket expenses…Just imagine what would Dr. Ambedkar feel if he would see this situation today from heaven?...obviously he would feel ashamed as this WAS NOT his vision in creating reservation for these people. For me…reservation is no more a means for uplifting poor people…because if you feed a fish eater daily with a reserved fish, he will forget the art of fishing...Merit matters a lot...
During my IBM days, when I visited Nathupur, a slum of Gurgaon, for donating books to poor people’s children, I learnt that many rickshaw owners of them had sold those books to purchase daaru (wine) from the money in exchange.
The other day, I received a call from the call center of CRY, (Child Relief and You). "Sir, last year you saved this much of tax by donating Rs 6000/-. This year, if you would increase your donation amount to Rs 10,000/- you would be in so and so bracket and would save so and so tax."…WOW…if tax saving would have been my vision for donating thousands of my hard earned money, then I could have got some mutual funds or insurance plans. Isn’t it a real life joke?…quietly Indianized & commercialized…I don’t even feel like laughing over it.
These days I am trying to gather poor children in the slums of Gurgaon, through Teach India Campaign, a Times of India initiative. Believe me, in past one month, I managed to get just two poor children, whose parents agreed to send them to near by school on weekends. "Padh likh ke kiskaa bhalaa hotaa hai saahab…ladkaa kaarigari seekhegaa to kum umar me kamayega to sahi"…is the standard statement that I listen…even after trying my best to convince them about the benefits of studying…and then we Indians boasts of having Takshshila as the oldest university on earth…
I still can not forget Anjali, a very near & dear friend of mine, who requested me to accompany her to her home in Ranchi from Delhi, as she eloped with her boyfriend and her parents then claimed that her father got a heart attack. The incident happened somewhere in October 2006. When we both reached Ranchi Railway Station, she was immediately captivated by her own parents. In those two days where in which I stayed at her place, they did not even allow me to speak to her. Reason, her boyfriend has a different caste. Needless to say, she is still not allowed to step out of her home without anybody accompanying her, even today…How orthodox? How selfish such types of parents are that they give birth to their child just for the sake of few seconds of orgasm and don’t even bother about their child’s choice of life? Believe me, I am not even feeling sorry to use such harsh words against these kinds of parents, as I seriously feel that their act of punishing their own innocent children, especially girls of non-liberated families is a very HEINOUS act.
Aryabhatt was the only Indian Mathematician, who actually influenced the entire life of mankind…however, after him; nobody could actually change the dynamics of life. Not even CV Raman or Ramanujam or Subramanian Chandrasekhar. For that matter, these three scientist / mathematicians, are mostly considered South Indians and not even just Indians. Again people don’t leave even a single chance to claim their ownership in terms of caste and creed.
It’s really pity to think that in a country possessing the world’s richest temple called Tirupati, people are dying of hunger and lack of medication. I don’t really know, what motivates people in donating gold and hefty money to such temples and not to the needy people.
There are thousands and thousands of examples based on my own personal experiences, through which I finally conclude that India is not at all a place where in at least I should celebrate its independence. Since blog writing is entirely different from writing a book, I will have to cut short my list of such examples…But one thing is worth mentioning here is…IT ALL STARTS FROM HERE…HERE…YOU KNOW WHAT THIS PLACE IS CALLED?…MIND…YOU WILL WIN / LOSE FROM YOUR MIND…and unless the mindset of common people of India changes for betterment, I would continuously find myself living in a dustbin called India.
Although, I have lost hopes, but still I am trying my best to clean this dustbin…so that one fine day, I would truly celebrate the independence day and feel proud of being an Indian…I am sure, even Mr. Gandhi or for that matter, Mr. Patel, Mr. Singh, Mr. Pande, Mr. Azaad and so on and so froth would take pride in being an Indian, but only when we would truly eradicate the mess spread in our mindset. But this is for sure, that unlike them, I WILL NOT DEVOTE MY ENTIRE LIFE FOR CLEANING THIS MESS…as I am not born for it…I AM BORN TO RULE THE CORPORATE WORLD…and through it, I would try my best to swipe out the mess in the mindset of our common people…If I am successful, together we would celebrate the spirit of Indianizm, some day…and if I am not successful in this endeavor, you guys will find me well settled somewhere in the posh localities of US or Europe, minting money, fame and corporate success…after all I know the hard fact, that I don’t intend to spend my entire life in cleaning the garbage of a dustbin called India. And who would love to live his entire life in/around the garbage?...atleast not me...
5 comments:
Excellent observation of what India is all about....we are a filthy hippocrates and only on 15 aug/26 jan/02 Oct do we remember India...half of so called intellectuals are alwasy READY to leave India on a priority basis...The other half are busy lot to earn as much money in their coffers through hook or crook...
We want HONEST people in all walks of life ...be it business/Politics/Government ....
Well i want to congratulate you on your essensive thoughts...though you may find a lot of confrontational views on the same...as again i quote "WE CAN ONLY TALK"...
Great analysis of India, I think we are living in the dreamland. We love to dream but will we be able to make that dream come true. As an Indian I share the entire shortcomings that an Indian has and I’m a part of all these.
Now the question is what a common man can do for the nation. If he cannot contribute anything to the nation, at least he could be caring, at least he could think about others, at least he could contribute not throwing garbage, or spitting on the roads, at least they can stop making fun of others. We love to make fun of not only of our people but of visitors from outside as well, at least they can stop stealing, at least they can stop misinterpreting religions, stop fighting between themselves, stop begging for which we are know worldwide, stop spoiling our heritage by not writing our names on the walls of the famous monuments, at least wake up from a long sleep, at least stop killing others on roads by not following the traffic rules, at least live and let others live. Forget if you as an Indian cannot do all these, just do one thing.
Be honest and don’t cheat.
"Shahrukh Khan quoted this statement in one of his movies, to create some kind of rhythm"
Correct this, you could have avoided this if you didn't knew who quoted this. Watch 16th December and you might get your data updated.
I liked when u wrote that Tirupati is the richest temple in the world and people in same country are dying of hunger...
What makes people donate hefty amounts on religion et al but not to the needy people..
I want to contact u..what's ur email id..
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