I again want to bring forth another aspect of the India story that needs a big time correction and almost infinite% improvement.
You and me and everyone is a part of it and is today the biggest cynosure to the eye of anyone who thinks sensibly.
Road etiquette - esp. vehicular.
Reams of paper in almost every city has written about the botched up traffic system they are living with. And we read more and more of it every new day.
But the cause to this HUGE HUGE problem stems only from one place - HUGE..R change in Indian attitude and so will the solution also.
You see, we Indians are a real bunch of lazy buggers.. and when I say this, I mean it dead serious.
Let me give you one example - the habit of chewing pan/tobacco. Do you observe those people who have this habit. Do you see how dead they look when all their energies are focused on the movement of their tongue, their teeth, their whole buccal cavity takes on that serious look when their brain is engaged 200% in sucking the juices out of that patch of tobacco, in generating more and more saliva so that the taste remains in their mouth coating, in fact drowning their taste buds in savoring that dangerous carcinogen.
Now what kind of a person will be so actively involved in such an activity?
If you think carefully, it will be only one who is in a way brain numb, not knowing what to do, not knowing where to go with his life, not deciding on his future and his course of action in life.
Aren't such people inherently lazy? Though they may seem active doing some work, but internally, they are all like blocks of concrete that is being wobbling along aimlessly.
So it is this category of people you see who driving public transport vehicles, heavy vehicles and all those vehicles which need a technical bent of mind and a very active thought process which helps them maintain their balance in their job.
do you think this is happening?
Unfortunately, it is these heads that are getting employed even in the Government services, be it police, public distribution, railways, banks, you name it - and add the historical mandate of 'reservation' to it. Now you see where the mess is all growing out of?
Another set of drivers are those private vehicle owners who have absolutely no care for where the world is going as long as they are riding at their own terms. Such people are inherently rash, they definitely have family issues that they are not able to deal with properly and they have serious personality disorders that need urgent attention.
Now there are people amongst these bunch who are just going with the flow, and they would probably be more disciplined if others were disciplined, i.e. if these same set of people were sent to Singapore, they would immediately follow the rules 'cos everyone else is. These class of people are those who would flow with the general crowd.
There are other areas I have not covered in this narration yet. Maybe later, but do you think given the magnitude of this attitude problem, this country can ever get onto the fast track of individual growth leading to wholesome growth?
The wholesome growth is what will make the India growth story real...
so unless that happens, the rest is all B A L O N Y... reality shows don't show real stories any more...
(and people like us who have this intense desire to change things and can't do so sit at our terminals and preach to the world what the problems of this country are instead of collecting together and making a difference.
I for one am game to change the situation and I Am, in my own way, just that I would like others to share what they are doing...) :)
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
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