Spate of affairs

Recently one of my replies in rediffmail

 

Spate of affairs


The net and media currently dominates a mans way of thinking. recently I got an opportunity to meet some people in a train journey those who have some how been non initiated with the net and television too. They belonged to a senior group of devotees in some religious group. all educated, strong intellectuals ( at least acc. to me )
I found their opinions completely non biased and without doubt one of the best assessment of the country as we know it.

We in India consider the rediffmail statistics as a good benchmark, the world leaders invite India in almost all the meeting, we have billionaires in the top lists.
But there is a one inherent problem, and that is common mans perception. Why does the common man still feel that it is difficult to buy houses in India, start a business in India, none of the jobs makes your life secure. and even if it does, it is in the dynamic private industries, where nothing is static. In the public services where the salaries have seen changes, the rates of potatoes and rice have seen double changes.

We no longer worship the merit. In the 1960s when Jawaharlal Nehru , was running the machinery in terms of new deals, and was going to become a part of the new world order the rise of the east. ( does it a ring a bell ) . there were newer opportunities since all the government offices were new and jobs were offered. An entire generation of Indians started thinking that changes are right around the corner. Those men are now 60 plus

those men have come and gone, they thought that things will change ( something that all of us find genetic ) Rceently one of my cousins went to visit Europe for a business visit. When he came back , he gave me the following explanation for the rise of the west. He feels , that the weather, the pollution free environment, the hassle free life, makes a man not bother about smallest of the details, but think big, the mind opens, up. Mind you,it was 3000 years or more , back . When westerners...
Re: Spate of affairs by rahiakil on Nov 13, 2009 04:41 PM those men have come and gone, they thought that things will change ( something that all of us find genetic ) Rceently one of my cousins went to visit Europe for a business visit. When he came back , he gave me the following explanation for the rise of the west. He feels , that the weather, the pollution free environment, the hassle free life, makes a man not bother about smallest of the details, but think big, the mind opens, up. Mind you,it was 3000 years or more , back . When westerners came to India and saw, favorable climate, water of the ganges could heal diseases, the change of weathers very necessary of the bodies complete growth, natural monsoon systems and a vast area of land with minimal population. Moral lessons of respecting ones old, caring for the others, hospitality , joint families, were all encouraged and followed religiously. Given all these, one always thought of this nation highly. But things have changed. Mind you , we are in the same bubble as our older geneartions. we still benchmark the west as a better standard of living and strive towards it. some of us, try to find fault in the west system of personal life , but I am sure, no one challenges their development in the material world. Obviously, all cannot be blamed to the politcians, they are just we normal people in near future. All I am hinting is though we consider ourselves the next most happening country , we forget, that the world , the earth is running out of resources.....