I just can't understand your nature about India. many of the problems that you have talked about are there world over. 1.Regarding elctricity, you would cribe that it was not cut off if someone died and blame the authorities, if it is cut off again you cribe. 2.They charge congestion charge in London, because of the traffic congestion, and when the same thing is done in India you will crib about it. 3.Tell me one country in which the politicians are not corrupt! 4.How much energy do you consume per day in terms of petrol, electricity etc etc. and why balame on others. Leave a life and show that you are not dependent on these and then you will gte a moral right to criticise others. 5.When people are struggling to manage the size of UK with 6.5 crore population, you are talking about 110 crores and many times the size of UK.Dont cribe, get on with life, if you can make a useful contribution make it otherwise keep quite.6. Tell me where there is no officialdum. It takes many weeeks to get your account opened in other countries.7. Mind you that India has not looted from other countries to make itself rich, it has been in fact looted for 300 years.It is still not cribbing
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by baishali on Jul 27, 2006 05:13 PM Permalink
Wait a min...i would not consider an NRI...ie one not holding an indian passport an indian citizen at all...so if Aditya you are an NRI, technically you are not an Indian...and there's no reason for you to go to lengths speaking "enough Hindi" to convince people to let you enter at a fee that's menat for Indians...have some respect for your Identity and please pay the correct entry fee meant for "foreigners" the enxt time you visit an Indian monument..please don't let the world see that you are a cheater!
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by Sunny on Jun 30, 2006 02:33 PM Permalink
You are correct sameer and there is no question of attitude here but what is mention in the article says that only India has this trouble its totally wrong a wrong impression is created here. I agree we should fight for making India a better place.
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by Vidya on Jun 23, 2006 08:15 PM Permalink
You know Sameer, this is the very attitude that Indians and therefore the country refuses to move forward. It is this attitude of denial, the very reason why we are not as developed as we should be. Having lived in the US for 6 years, I can clearly see the differences in both the countries. Apart from the technological adavancements and the quality of life (which is obviously no where near comparrison with India's), its the attitude of the general public thats different, and to me this is the most fundamental difference between these 2 counties. In the US people are not afraid to accept problems in their society and look at measures to rectify it, we on the other hand are always finding excues, like the ones you just gave. Its true, we have a huge population and so on and so forth, but that cannot be an excuse for development. Infact we should be more charged about development than any other nation, coz a billion people wanting to move forward must defenitely be a much stronger force than a popultion of 300 million wanting to do the same thing! As far as the author's points go, I think he is 100% right. Infact he has been too soft on his criticisms.
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by Vijaya Kumar on Jun 23, 2006 07:33 PM Permalink
>I just can't understand your nature about India. many of the problems that you have talked about are there world over.
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by TC on Jun 28, 2006 03:10 AM Permalink
Your kidding right? 10 things? Wow, did you let them get off cheap. How about defacating in the streets/fields in front of everyone. How about SPITTING with or without tobacco. How about the flem squirting MACHINEs, DEAR GOD they NEEd SHOT! How about "traditions" "culture" have you seen the stuff we have in the name of that. Oh My God! Pot bellied women and men, they achieve that by 30!!!. There are many states that need FLUSHED! If that wasnt enough do you KNOW how many of these shits come online into chatrooms typing "hello I Want Sex" in 32 point arial bold!!! WTF is that??!!. What we need isnt education we need AIDS/HIV or something that kills many in large numbers!!! Of course one more is rediff censorship which assures that letters like this are rejected cause Indians love "free speech" hahaha
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by Anand on Jun 26, 2006 02:46 PM Permalink
I agree with Vidya. The major problem with us is attitude. We do not accept that we have shortcomings. We shirk responsibilities and find excuses that justify our short comings.
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by Bush on Jul 03, 2006 06:14 PM Permalink
Its not a matter of taking side of Vidya/ Sameer or for that matter any one. Are we finding a way out or will just go on criticising without realizing.
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by Jayendra N Bandyopadhyay on Jun 29, 2006 06:22 PM Permalink
Dear Vidya, You are right that we dont accept our shortcomings. Actually we dont have many things for which we can feel proud, except our glorious distant past.But at the present world, all the developed countries can feel proud about their most of the things.Therefore it is very easier for them to accept some handful of shortcomings.
You have also mentioned that Americans always try to rectify problems of their society.In this point, I am partially agree with you.I think Americans try to rectify any problem only when that problem affects themselves.They are least bother about what their government doing against other countries.It is now very much clear that US attacked Iraq because of its oil source.Their soldiers miserably failed to bring back democracy, peace and normal life in Iraq what initially claimed by US government.So in my opinion Bush himself is a problem.But unfortunatley, Americans brought him back to the power for the second time.Hence it is clear that Americans are only concern about their internal shortcomings.They show their selfish character when others are suffering due to their government.
But our problem is that we least bother about our own drawbacks.
