We always want to help others while our own house is on fire. Now this "other" doesnot belowng to the "we"....The columnist has rightly put the sentence "What is so Indian about these Indians"....they donot consider themselves as Indians...... I had an experience...while in Paris in my office met a person who looked Indian....happy to find an Indian in a all french work group I went and started talking...Asked him whether he was Indian...he said no he is a Malyasian....left India long long back....and didnot say a word after that...stopped talking....I was taken back....
When they dont want to be called Indians...why should we be worried about them....they enjoy more privilege than the common indians...
RE:Deja Vu
by rickett on Dec 08, 2007 04:38 AM Permalink
why do people say they met one person who behaved like this so it must be true for all people of his community? Dont judge like that. Makes you look stupid.
RE:Deja Vu
by JACOB JOHN on Dec 08, 2007 03:54 PM Permalink
yes what u say is true....but then at times first impression remains.....!!!! thenits an experience in itself....if it sounds stupid....i am not the only one.....cheers!!!
well written article.. We shld also consider one thing, The NRI's contribution to indian economy ( i dont know how much the malasian Indians contribute), but without the contribution from NRI's in middle east, europe and US Indian economy would suffer no doubt about that. So if they feel that they dont have any support from the indian govt they may not invest in India.
All the articles written are individual opinions and everyone has the right to express their thoughts as well as choose to be critical on others views. This is the reward for living in a democracy.
Politicians are doing their business of running the government. I referred their job as business because they invest [by looting the public and others] a lot for coming to power. To remain in power they do need to pick up some topic or other to divert people's attention else people would start observing the politician's performance. Now it is the Malaysian tamils and othertimes it is different unrelated and unwanted issues.
It is all just like the story of two cats fighting and the monkey eats the cake. The people are the cats and politicians are the monkeys.
I can already see the tamils and no tamils arguing and the brahmins and non brahmins arguing. So what are we talking about INDIANs.
India was never a single country. The british picked up bits and pieces of few states [formerly ruled by the kings] and named it India. I dont know what the old timers refer to as undivided India, i wonder if any such thing existed. Or may be i am wrong and someone can correct me. And Indians in many states dont want to be identified as Indians, rathes like to known as Tamilian, Gujarathi, Marathi, Bengali so on and so forth. Again Brahmin, Non Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishnavaites...... All so funny !!!!!!!!!!
No one really cares for the country. I am especially referring to the rasca
Guys I am an Indian at heart living abroad I have noticed we Indians try to blame each other which is our downfall. Peolple are people, some are brave others have no clue what bravery is all about. I am not saying they are bad but they are too scared and have not been exposed to brave deeds, by their teachers, parents or so called mentors. To be brave you need to live among people who are brave, to have great values you need to live eith people who have great values. So, we learn from each other. India should discard the state and language barriers and just divide the country into different parts so that no body can say I a Tamil, Punjabi, Hindu, Muslim or Sikh. They should have only one identity and that is Indian. I am not saying you discard those great values you get from religion. When living in a foreign country don't brag about your values and your country but rather work with their attitute and embrace their work culture. Become a human being 1st.
