Dear Indians...

[Vaibhav Dandavate <>]

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The article is a forwarded message, but I felt it is highly thought 
inducive, calls for a great deal of introspection and pricks one's 
conscience too.
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YOU say that our government is inefficient.

YOU say that our laws are too old.

YOU say that the municipality does not pick up the garbage.

YOU say that the phones don't work, the railways are a joke, the airline is 
the worst in the world, mails never reach their destination.

YOU say that our country has been fed to the dogs and is the absolute pits.

YOU say, say and say. What do YOU do about it?

Take a person on his way to Singapore.

Give him a name - YOURS.

Give him a face - YOURS.

YOU walk out of the airport and you are at your International best.

In Singapore you don't throw cigarette butts on the roads or eat in the 
stores.

YOU are as proud of their Underground Links as they are.

You pay $5 (approx. Rs.60) to drive through Orchard Road (equivalent of 
Mahim Causeway or Pedder Road) between 5 PM and 8 PM.

YOU comeback to the parking lot to punch your parking ticket if you have 
over stayed in a restaurant or a shopping mall irrespective of your status 
identity. In Singapore you don't say anything, DO YOU?

YOU wouldn't dare to eat in public during Ramazan, in Dubai.

YOU would not dare to go out without your head covered in Jeddah.

YOU would not dare to buy an employee of the telephone exchange in London 
at 10 pounds (Rs.650) a month to, "see to it that my STD and ISD calls are 
billed to someone else."

YOU would not dare to speed in Washington and then tell the traffic cop, 
Jaanta hai sala main kaun hoon (Do you know who I am?). "I am so and so's 
son. Take your two bucks and get lost."

YOU wouldn't chuck an empty coconut shell anywhere other than the garbage 
pail on the beaches in Australia and New Zealand.

Why don't YOU spit Paan on the streets of Tokyo?

Why don't YOU use examination jockeys or buy fake certificates in Boston?

We are still talking of the same YOU.

YOU who can respect and confirm to a foreign system in other countries but 
cannot in your own. You who will throw papers and cigarettes on the road 
the moment you touch Indian ground. If you can be an involved and 
appreciative citizen in an alien country

why cannot you be the same here in India.

Once in an interview, the famous Ex-municipal commissioner of Bombay.

Mr.Tinaikar had a point to make.

"Rich people's dogs are walked on the streets to leave their affluent 
droppings all over the place," he said. "And then the same people turn 
around to criticize and blame the authorities for inefficiency and dirty 
pavements. What do they expect the officers to do? Go down with a broom 
every time their dog feels the pressure in his bowels?

In America every dog owner has to clean up after his pet as done the job 
Same in Japan. Will the Indian citizen do that here?"

He's right. We go to the polls to choose a government and after that 
forfeit all responsibility. We sit back wanting to be pampered and expect 
the government to do everything for us whilst our contribution is totally 
negative. We expect the government to clean up but we are not going to stop 
chucking garbage all over the place nor are we going to stoop to pick up a 
stray piece of paper and throw it in the bin.

We expect the railways to provide clean bathrooms but we are not going to 
learn the proper use of bathrooms. We want Indian Airlines and Air India to 
provide the best of food and toiletries but we are not going to stop 
pilfering at the least opportunity. This applies even to the staff who are 
known not to pass on the service to the public.

When it comes to burning social issues like those related to women, dowry, 
girl child and others, we make loud drawing room protestations and continue 
to do the reverse at home. Our excuse? "It's the whole system which has to 
change, how will it matter if I alone forego my sons' rights to a dowry."

So who's going to change the system? What does a system consist of? Very 
conveniently for us it consists of our neighbours, Other households, other 
cities, other communities and the government. But definitely not me and 
YOU. When it comes to us actually making a positive contribution to the 
system we lock ourselves along with our families into a safe cocoon and 
look into the distance at countries far away and wait for a Mr. Clean to 
come along & work miracles for us with a majestic sweep of his hand.

Or we leave the country and run away. Like lazy cowards hounded by our 
fears we run to America to bask in their glory and praise their system.

When New York becomes insecure we run to England. When England experiences 
un-employment, we take the next flight out to the Gulf. When the Gulf is 
war struck, we demand to be rescued and brought home by the Indian 
government.

Everybody is out to abuse and rape the country. Nobody thinks of feeding 
the system. Our conscience is mortgaged to money.
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Thanks and Regards,
Vaibhav Dandavate
Phone: 7611090 Ext.: 1236/ 1237
eMail: vaibhav.dandavate@patni.com
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That which we obtain too easily, we esteem lightly. It is dearness which 
gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price on its 
goods. - Thomas Paine.


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