I know from the thought of movement to the real move, has taken me quite a time but the positive development is I am here. And am giving my blog the attention it needs. I have lately been off blogging and took a whole year or more,being on the social networking sites. Was on facebook for quite a while but when every friend and relative knew the exact moment I was sneezing,I realised its time to move on to twitter.Like I tweeted once, facebook is the living room,twitter the bedroom and google plus (doubt how many really take it seriously) is the guest room of social networking apartment. While you have all your visitors coming in and being nice on facebook, you can be your true self in twitter ...and google plus,well, how many really use the guest room??
I am pretty unsocial in the real life but thanks to a close friend, I managed to befriend a lady in the last few months,whom I know not much but just through her tweets,.She comes across as a pleasant and a warm person and intrigues me with her journey in India. Today while going through her blog, I realised that being Indian in India when you were not born there is not easy.Its an uphill task. You are not accepted as Indian because you dont 'sound' Indian and you have a whole lot of languages to get the hang of before you can proclaim that you know India. I appreciate her for her bravery in leaving a life of comforts in the West and moving to the hardships of India and travelling in India the way an average Indian does.The fact that she doesnt catch the slums and hunger in India on her camera and pen; or portray India as a land of snakes and tigers is something the non-Indians (I mean NRIs and foreigners by that) need to learn.I dont know her reasons for moving to India, and she must surely have 'not-so-nice' experiences and complaints about the country, but while she is yet to learn her hindi, she has lots which the so called Indians can learn from her.
I have been away from India for more than an year now and seeing the country from the other side, does show me the positives of the country. An Indian, forever flaunts his complaints about the country. Its kind of a fashion to complain and crib about the country. Spit right there and then talk about the lack of cleanliness in India. We all have a lesson to pass to others. What I want to talk is the positives of the country.
For one, the democracy really has a strong hold. Right now being in a country where democracy is yet to find roots, I realise how strong it is in my country.We still follow the rules of democracy no matter what. There are a lot of complaints about corruption and agitation in various forms for the same, but every attempt is to get the same done democratically. We may have 1001 reasons to hate the way the government works- we fight, complain, shout and protest, but still are waiting for the government to complete its term before we can again give our mandate. There are cheats and dirty politicians all over but there are still a few clean ones whom we try to get into limelight. We are democratically oriented, which is a good thing.
Another bright spot for us Indians is that though God has given less in the sense we deal with cleanliness and traffic sense but given enough to work hard and think harder. We spend a lot of it in dealing with our life and work and so may be are left with less of it when it comes to dealing with the civic sense. But the Indian diaspora all over the world is at the places where brain is needed. Unfortunately, most of us,including me, get frustrated at not getting the opportunity to use it the way we want in India and move to other countries. so we land up being surrogate mothers- develop and nurture ideas but they are never ours to own or used for the betterment of our country.
There is a lot to be done, always will be, and talking about the positives is one of them....and I just did my bit there....:)
I am pretty unsocial in the real life but thanks to a close friend, I managed to befriend a lady in the last few months,whom I know not much but just through her tweets,.She comes across as a pleasant and a warm person and intrigues me with her journey in India. Today while going through her blog, I realised that being Indian in India when you were not born there is not easy.Its an uphill task. You are not accepted as Indian because you dont 'sound' Indian and you have a whole lot of languages to get the hang of before you can proclaim that you know India. I appreciate her for her bravery in leaving a life of comforts in the West and moving to the hardships of India and travelling in India the way an average Indian does.The fact that she doesnt catch the slums and hunger in India on her camera and pen; or portray India as a land of snakes and tigers is something the non-Indians (I mean NRIs and foreigners by that) need to learn.I dont know her reasons for moving to India, and she must surely have 'not-so-nice' experiences and complaints about the country, but while she is yet to learn her hindi, she has lots which the so called Indians can learn from her.
I have been away from India for more than an year now and seeing the country from the other side, does show me the positives of the country. An Indian, forever flaunts his complaints about the country. Its kind of a fashion to complain and crib about the country. Spit right there and then talk about the lack of cleanliness in India. We all have a lesson to pass to others. What I want to talk is the positives of the country.
For one, the democracy really has a strong hold. Right now being in a country where democracy is yet to find roots, I realise how strong it is in my country.We still follow the rules of democracy no matter what. There are a lot of complaints about corruption and agitation in various forms for the same, but every attempt is to get the same done democratically. We may have 1001 reasons to hate the way the government works- we fight, complain, shout and protest, but still are waiting for the government to complete its term before we can again give our mandate. There are cheats and dirty politicians all over but there are still a few clean ones whom we try to get into limelight. We are democratically oriented, which is a good thing.
Another bright spot for us Indians is that though God has given less in the sense we deal with cleanliness and traffic sense but given enough to work hard and think harder. We spend a lot of it in dealing with our life and work and so may be are left with less of it when it comes to dealing with the civic sense. But the Indian diaspora all over the world is at the places where brain is needed. Unfortunately, most of us,including me, get frustrated at not getting the opportunity to use it the way we want in India and move to other countries. so we land up being surrogate mothers- develop and nurture ideas but they are never ours to own or used for the betterment of our country.
There is a lot to be done, always will be, and talking about the positives is one of them....and I just did my bit there....:)
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