Always developing INDIA - Part 1

DISCLAIMER: If you are a pure Indian and love India more than yourself then the content might be sensitive. Read at your own risk. Also when I say India, most of the time I might be referring to Bangalore and generalizing (I may be wrong). Reader discretion is advised.

During initial days of my stay in Taipei during last month, my thoughts were like typical Indian and always use to get excited on how clean, advanced, organized Taipei city IS compared to India. But as days passed, my thought process dissolved completely with the life style of Taipei and forgot comparing it back to India.

My thoughts started to grow back rapidly when my flight landed back to Bangalore International airport on children's day. I was back to India after a wonderful, memorable business trip of high class life style of 28 days (almost a month) and as soon I exited out of airport, it seemed like I woke up from my sleep where I was dreaming that I was living at Taipei from past 28 days! My thoughts started to swirl, comparing India with Taipei. Actually, I have been to one just small city in Taiwan and there are several other similar countries which are much ahead of us. I started to wonder what is India and Indian people doing. They say, India is a developing country and soon will be a developed country. Damn them! After children's day, I don't believe any of that crap. According to me, India will always be developing country. It’s sad & rude but true.

The roads, footpaths, traffic rules, shops, buildings, transportation services like MRT, busses then houses, restaurants and even the boards, advertisement are digital! OMG, its like heaven. Lastly, most important of all these, PEOPLE, they are awesome and are real GEM. They are way ahead and much more organized than we can ever imagine. We cannot compare ourselves with them at all. It’s foolish of ourselves to compare and feel proud. Earlier I use to hear people mentioning, foreign countries might be more advanced, but we have our rich tradition, culture, unity in diversity (all that crap) which they don’t have! I totally disagree that. Even taipei people have their own very rich tradition, culture etc which the people from I had heard didn’t knew! We think, we are the only one having this. Foolish! I would suggest to step out of country and have a look (don’t be a frog in a well)

You know, people over there, wear mask in public if they have cold/cough to avoid spreading it to other surrounding people (I cannot compare this with indian people whatsoever, impossible), all shops, bus, trains, cabs etc everything have Air Conditioners (here, shops doesn’t even have fan, forget about rest all things to compare). As I said, everything is DIGITAL over there! All name plates, boards etc. Big big LCD TVs on roads with Ads (here hard to find LCD TV’s in most of the houses, forget about in public. First think of electricity waste is what comes in mind!). It has a very minimal crime rate. I use to wonder police department is simply paid for sitting idle over there and here other than salary, most police get money under table not to work and sit idle! Uff… I can’t type much. Its very hard and unfair to compare!

With my observation after returning back, I strongly believe that: “India will never become at least 50% of what Taipei city is as of today (2013) even during my grandchildren's era! So forget of when India will become how Taipei will be in my grandchildren's era!” The implication of "my grandchildren" is just to refer a timeline of two generations. I insist to understand by reading this paragraph again.

What is the problem with India? Can’t we be like them? It might be harsh, but I say, NO, we cannot! How do I and where do I begin to justify my answer! Oh man. India is flooded with lack of basic stuffs food, cloth, house then education, corruption, terrorism, religious racism, what not, ah? They are in a position where they don’t even know most of such problems could exist!

I am sure, you must be aware of recent ATM incident where an innocent woman in Bangalore was brutally hurt by a man. I was shocked by watching the video on YouTube and couldn't stop thinking about it for few nights (probably because it happened right after few days I was back from Taipei). If I hadn't been out of India, then I might not have thought about it much and would not have mentioned here as an example.

Last week on sunday night around 9:50PM i came out to have dinner and after i paid my bill, i was left with exactly 5/- in my wallet. I checked about nearest ATM to that hotel and went there. It was almost 10:10PM and no security guard and it was in some closed complex and it was dark over there. I SCARED and came back without going to ATM even i wanted money!

Why am i telling this? Because I bloody got scared while in actual it must be the other way round. I mean, people are getting scared to take money out of ATM and not getting scared to hurt and make one more similar incident. Problem is that people's attitude of thinking, these things are common! What the HELL man? What is COMMON! We are bound to just ignore such things encouraging crime.

According to me, the police force, CBI force, every damn force should hunt that man with all their resource and severely punish him so that people must scare to do such things in future (not scare to take money out of ATM) There are several incidents much serious than this and criminals are walking freely by escaping from Inidan law loop holes. (concept of DEXTER) Oh man, don't get me started with indian law now! I can write a separate blog about it!

So finally, i'm not sure what to conclude over here. I think, think, think but still not clear on how to conclude about this topic in a hypothetical yet logical manner. Trust me i tried hard to conclude but i can't. Hopefully in next blog i might think of something and give a conclusion?