Many of us are proud Indians aren't we? We as people are survivors all through the way..Our resilience has been put to test over centuries and our undying spirit has been fostered and given every opportunity to survive and we have..our sheer numbers have made us compete to survive.
The economic recession witnessed even thin crowds at restaurants and cinemas and such lean population at malls and for a change even empty roads with free flow of traffic, one of the favourable consequences of the recession...but in our country for how long ? After few months of holding back in fear and uncertainty, people slowly started to move on since it is so part of our grain..and that moving on was so important for the economy to start turning around again! something that significant countries are still struggling with..
Our education system has been such that it has prepared us for marks through rote and hard labour all through (sure methodologies are changing here and there today, yet!).
Our infrastructure - take a simple example of roads and pavements in the garden city of Bangalore which is much talked about internationally..The number of pot holes and broken concrete slabs that a pedestrian will have to hurdle through is not funny.. One may call it apathy for the way our country remains even today, yet we as people have been taught right from the beginning to adapt and adjust with what is and go on..I think it is a great capability that we have. On a bloody narrow road which is capable of taking one small car at the most, i witnessed once sitting inside a small car myself.. head on was another car staring into our faces..on the side a motorist trying to wade through cracks and then a cyclist looking for an inch of space to navigate..unbelievable it was that none of these people looked troubled, within 5 minutes, each of them had found a way and were on the move...It was a wow experience, I actually thought there was so much "Indianness" to the way it happened and could only marvel at it!!
I have heard this from someone I respect a lot.."Resourcelessness could be the biggest resource"..how very true I have often times thought to myself!
ctually, the flip side of this is that we accept anything and do not stand up and fight as civic society against corruption, lack of even basic facilities and social hygiene .. something that am ashamed of and not proud of . As a result of our so called adaptability to resourcelessness , we are denied even the most basic resources.
ReplyDeleteYes..I concur with what you say Srikanth. The focus of my rambling was on who we have become culturally over generations and not what we are not..yes the list is too long on what we are not!
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