Sometimes I wonder....
Why I wish things were different if I can not change anything or at least something.
I read this book called " The onion: Our dumb World, Atlas of Planet Earth",
There is of course an online link for this too (http://www.theonion.com/content/atlas) check it out if you want.
It is hilarious but hurts.
In that book, the introduction to the western world or for that matter for anyone who just knows India as just another country in these endless borders of the world is that it is dirty with all capital letters.
I found it really true though hard to accept in front of others.
Our Country is Extremely Dirty and everyone contributes to it and thinks India is not as great or as clean as Singapore or USA and the best part is some people start arguing that USA is not all that clean. We are missing the point there. Whether USA is clean or not, India is definitely not and No one cares or thinks it is a big issue.
Honestly, I don’t even put a bus ticket on the road, even though my bus stop is near the famous or infamous Coovam River in the heart of Chennai, the headquarters of all its filth. Even though I know it doesn’t make a difference anyway, I don’t want to contribute to this ever growing filth and talk about migrating to other cleaner countries.
I have seen lots of people from Tidel Park, spitting and littering in the MRTS train. I am sure 90% of these people are educated to the basic level and talk with multinational clients. If you can copy their accent and their style of dressing, why not their habits?
If these people, who know how some others in this world behave well, are not able to be clean and are not conscious of their surrounding, how can the uneducated people, be blamed for what is happening? IT contributes economically; I think it should contribute socially and behaviorally too. Otherwise there is no use blowing the horns of IT or for that matter economic growth.
So all said, I feel powerless for not able to get anything done.Now, Anniyan and Mudalvan (for some who might not know, these are movies in India regarding setting the country right) are not enough to create awareness, since it was obviously ineffective except for Vikram and Arjun since glamour overshadows anything and everything in cinema in our place. So those fictional characters in real life, is definitely not possible.
So the only thing I can do is write this but there again I am sure at least 90% of those who happen to read this know this already and have similar opinion as me. So there again it becomes a useless exercise. I am not prejudiced against those who read but as far as I am concerned many people who read also think.
But I still went ahead and wrote this cause, I wanted to do at least the 0.01% that I can and if at all it helps someone somewhere not to pollute the world, I am more than happy.
As I said in one of my previous ramblings, Earth is not ours to take for granted; you have rented and just because you don’t have any leasing fine on it, it doesn’t mean you can spoil it in whatever way you want. Of course there is no fine, but in future there will be no life if this goes on.
Why I wish things were different if I can not change anything or at least something.
I read this book called " The onion: Our dumb World, Atlas of Planet Earth",
There is of course an online link for this too (http://www.theonion.com/content/atlas) check it out if you want.
It is hilarious but hurts.
In that book, the introduction to the western world or for that matter for anyone who just knows India as just another country in these endless borders of the world is that it is dirty with all capital letters.
I found it really true though hard to accept in front of others.
Our Country is Extremely Dirty and everyone contributes to it and thinks India is not as great or as clean as Singapore or USA and the best part is some people start arguing that USA is not all that clean. We are missing the point there. Whether USA is clean or not, India is definitely not and No one cares or thinks it is a big issue.
Honestly, I don’t even put a bus ticket on the road, even though my bus stop is near the famous or infamous Coovam River in the heart of Chennai, the headquarters of all its filth. Even though I know it doesn’t make a difference anyway, I don’t want to contribute to this ever growing filth and talk about migrating to other cleaner countries.
I have seen lots of people from Tidel Park, spitting and littering in the MRTS train. I am sure 90% of these people are educated to the basic level and talk with multinational clients. If you can copy their accent and their style of dressing, why not their habits?
If these people, who know how some others in this world behave well, are not able to be clean and are not conscious of their surrounding, how can the uneducated people, be blamed for what is happening? IT contributes economically; I think it should contribute socially and behaviorally too. Otherwise there is no use blowing the horns of IT or for that matter economic growth.
So all said, I feel powerless for not able to get anything done.Now, Anniyan and Mudalvan (for some who might not know, these are movies in India regarding setting the country right) are not enough to create awareness, since it was obviously ineffective except for Vikram and Arjun since glamour overshadows anything and everything in cinema in our place. So those fictional characters in real life, is definitely not possible.
So the only thing I can do is write this but there again I am sure at least 90% of those who happen to read this know this already and have similar opinion as me. So there again it becomes a useless exercise. I am not prejudiced against those who read but as far as I am concerned many people who read also think.
But I still went ahead and wrote this cause, I wanted to do at least the 0.01% that I can and if at all it helps someone somewhere not to pollute the world, I am more than happy.
As I said in one of my previous ramblings, Earth is not ours to take for granted; you have rented and just because you don’t have any leasing fine on it, it doesn’t mean you can spoil it in whatever way you want. Of course there is no fine, but in future there will be no life if this goes on.
Comments
There is a single solution in my opinion. everybody should get a chance to get out of india and come back to live here. that will ensure everyone has some cash in their accounts and would like to live a slightly "higher" class of life. Then they wake up to find their streets are horrible. then they pull all strings in all directions to get things fixed. I think that would be fair to expect.