[nukkad] TO ALL MY FELLOW INDIANS

["Sarabjit Singh Puri, Gurgaon" <>]

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READ AT YOUR LEISURE and THINK Can we Improve Our Country? TO ALL MY FELLOW
INDIANS

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, and 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 P.M. 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 Ramzan, 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.500) 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 nahin hai 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," hesaid.
"And then the same people turn around to criticize and blame the authorities
for nefficiency 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 andthrow 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 toilettries 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 unemployment, 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. After a six - month holiday during
which derogatory comments about India and Indians are made and sheepishly
accepted, we are ready to leave for Australia because their old age benefits
and pension schemes are very lucrative. Bribery, tax evasion, unlicensed
business, unethical practices, etc. has not reached the same dimensions
anywhere as it has in India, thanks to each citizen's sense of involvement
with the country. Everybody is out to abuse and rape the country. Nobody
thinks of feeding the system. Our
conscience is mortgaged to money. 

Dear Indians, The article is highly thought inducive, calls for a great deal
of introspection and pricks one's conscience
too....I am echoing J.F.Kennedy's words to his fellow Americans to relate to
Indians..... "ASK WHAT WE CAN DO FOR INDIA AND NOT WHAT INDIA CAN DO FOR US"
Lets do what India needs from us.

If you truly love yourself and your country please Forward this mail to each
and every Indian whom you know,=20

Thank you.
Sarabjit




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