Well, I guess I AM a patriot! But I hide this feeling, I hide it beneath some other pressing emotions...mostly disgust and dissappointment...
There was a time not long ago, that I believed that living in India sucks real bad!
And believe it or not, I had/have my reasons. But I was told,
"Its just as bad everywhere!"
"Oh! You will get used to it!"
"But, you will be a second rate citizen!"
"You will have to do your own dishes!"
etc.. etc..
I am a first-rate citizen as opposed to anywhere else right, why should I complain?
Well, on a average 30 minute ride, roughly 30 autorickshaw drivers will suddenly cut into my path, some 20 odd taxi-drivers will honk incessantly, even though there are ten cars in a jam in front of me...
Almost everytime I stand in a queue, at least two three people bypass it. Of course by the time I am done with the third guy, the fourth guy gets the picture. And this happens everywhere, railway tickets, airline check-in counters, public bathrooms, you name it...
In india you stand in queue for everything, want your hair cut, wait in a queue!! want to arrange transport , wait in a queue! wanna take a piss, wait in a queue! There are just so many people, that everything is a struggle. Of course, thats just how I feel , for the rest of the people, or at least a sizable portion of them, a queue is a synonym for "Hey! Fuck all these idiots standing in the queue, lets just walk to the front!"
By the time I get to work, My hair is caked with dust, and I travel in a rickety BMTC bus, whose manufacturers think of a suspension as a design overhead. As I bump and grind through the traffic at work, I am pretty much done for the day...
There are rats in the mall!!! Yes! You heard it right! The singaporean company that runs the IT park, of course, does not care much because ... "it's indians we are dealing with... the first 100 or so complaints are ok!! Surely we can wait for some mass epidemic of some sorts"
And this is one of the best software parks in Bangalore, or so they say!!
The postal service is so inept that they take forvever to deliver my passport to me, they sit on it for ten days, when I go to the post office they send me back saying that it hasn't arrived yet!
Well, if by now I am not feeling like a first grade citizen, then there's more...
...to be continued...
2 comments:
hahahahahha... what u have said here is absolutely true Orijit, and I cudnt agree with you more. But then... alright, I think there is a certain twist thats gonna come into your piece. I dont know why, but I am somehow expecting it. So the rest of my comment will follow the latter part of your post. :-)
Cheers!
unfortunately, I never quite completed that blog!
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