Indian Expertise

Today: July 24, 2008

1. The Serial "Spitters"

• Especially seen when in bus. Some drivers (while driving), and some passengers, chew paan or ghutka or whatever and spit it out of the window, when the bus is moving. It’s thrown with such expertise that their spit lands on a fellow driver or some innocent pedestrian.

• Other is “certain” pedestrians, who just can’t help simply spitting on the roads. They might themselves walk on it later.

Literally GROSS!

2. The Serial “Shitters”

• Indian Government doesn’t have enough money to build at least one public lavatory (Pune). Even if so many are provided (Bangalore), people have that great urge to keep them (lavatories, not surrounding) so clean that they go out on the roads or in the jhaadis or near the gutter and answer the nature’s call. “Its natural fertilizer you know!” (Too Kanjoos to fish out 1Re for using those lavatories) Yea right! It’s a bloody natural air freshener too!

3. The Serial “Garbage Dumpers”

• The garbage is thrown out, good thing. But I bloody can’t understand why people find it so difficult to lean a bit and throw their dump in the big yellow garbage can provided? Or walk a distance of maybe maximum 5 mins and throw it off in the can? (Pune)

• Its either throw from their apartment balconies (such as mine), or if an individual flat they take the pains to come out of their doors and then throw off the dump just like that. They won’t even care to see if someone is walking below their balconies or flat. (Bangalore)

4. The Serial “Watchers”

• There’s a brawl going on. Some one must have got hurt and must be bleeding profusely and needs immediate medical attention. What do we prefer to do? Stand and watch the show, instead of helping a fellow citizen. Those stupid K serials aren’t enough. We need some more real reality shows. So there you get it. A natural entertainment: watching a person die right in front of their eyes.

Way to go!! Give them applause!! My foot!

5. The Serial “Smokers”

• Smoking is so cool, here down south. Thanks to Mr. Rajnikant (people get inspired by his cigarette throwing antics and all), or other actors who smoke on the screen. Man it looks so cool that people smoke even if they can’t handle it. Of course they learn to handle it later. They then display their styles of blowing the smoke out, either through their nostrils or their mouth after keeping it in their lungs for god knows how long minutes!

• Worst is, people will be coughing while smoking. Not a normal cough, those chronic cough, coughing till their lungs start aching. They cough so pathetically, its almost very late, but still its not realized by them that its high time to try and quit smoking.

• Who suffers? People like me! Secondary smoke is even more harmful. I’ll be dying with them, suffering from cancer. I can’t even avoid inhaling that smoke, however much I try to avoid it. The air is filled with that smoke. In every 5 mins, I find 3-4 smokers. (I observed it while walking to my bus-stop and while waiting for my college bus). The cleanest air I ever breathed after I’ve come from Pune (There are lesser serial smokers there) is in Lalbaugh.

(I’ve excluded the smokes emitted from vehicles; it’s the same in every big city)

I remember getting this mail forwarded by my friends. It was supposedly sent by Mr. A P J Kalam. I do every bit for these matters I can. But what bout those people. I pity those educated people, who even though know everything continue to do the same thing. They don’t do the same when in foreign, I accept that. But then there are many who are so dumb that they do the same in those countries. So what to do bout that now?

I tried explaining people the harms of smoking, but they won’t listen. Mr. Kalam, Please do tell me what to do.

Here comes the worst of all:

6. The Serial “Reservations”

The government is so good. Yea right. I can’t understand the 50% reservation thing. And the dumbest part is, those SC and ST people take up merit seats too, then drop it. And guess what who gets those seats?? The guess is quiet simple: The other SC and ST people. It’s killing the whole education system in India. And it’s said, India has one of the best education system. My foot, with those education system.

The other open category people end up getting nothing here. These open category people (many of them) are really better, and they end up getting no facilities. How do you explain about this Mr. Kalam? What do you expect us to do? The government won’t listen. They want nothing but fill their pockets. I find very less politicians who really want to do something good, for their state, for their country.

Why we just adopt some of US education system too? Like some was adopted in our constitution? Why can’t we keep everything in the form of merit? Why the hell are we still following that stupid reservation? Ok, some of SC and ST are not well to do, but 50% is really too much.

I feel like punching this computer screen cos I like many other open category student have been directly affected by it. We end up getting no seats cos; it’s all reserved for SC and ST. And even if there are free seats left and no one wants to take it, its still left reserved for god knows whose ghosts. It’s such a waste.

No wonder there is brain drain from India to US or UK, but never vice versa. You keep such system and then expect Indians to stay back here? Why stay back when we are getting nothing?

What to do bout this? Take out some silent dharnas, some strikes? Break some public properties like those political followers and cause some more harm? Destroy our own public facilities like them?

India is still developing, till god knows how many long years. It will be still developing I guess even after I’ll have grandchildren.