Indianness

The Pride

The pride in calling ourselves as Indians at times, and distancing ourselves from rest of India at times to suit our convenience, to suit our situation, is yet another proof that we are a Union of mini countries within a country.

As more and more states are seriously considering reserving 100% jobs in their own States, proves that it's a farse and superficial to identify ourselves under one Nation.

We are so used to the concept of reservations, as we started with Caste, Sub caste, Religion, Gender and now based on Language, that eligibility, merit is literally shown middle finger.

Imagine every State bringing in this law, and Business, employment and opportunities are limited to our own States. What if every Company decides even Vendors will be within the State, then our play area will be restricted, and competition within the small region will kill many smaller companies! Kudos to the idea of reservations!!

Should I think as an entrepreneur, employer or a Kannadiga!!??

Happy Independence Day

Happy Independence Day, Happy Independence Day...the wish is peppered all over, to spend this Off day.

Today it's supposed to be a moment of pride, feel patriotic, feel the oneness, feel proud to be Indian. The leaders unfortunately are political and lead the nation based on their personal, ideology based agendas.

The executives, officials work to amass Money. We citizens live for ourselves, we are selfish, we want our problems to be solved first, we feel we are privileged.

Probably only the Military and Defence are the real Indians who proudly, without any expectations, with absolute respect for Nation and Borders, put their lives at risk.

What is the idea of India? It's a union of States, each State very distinctive in culture, language, practices, history, aspirations and no reason to be accommodative to someone from another Indian State. We want our Water for ourselves, our land for ourselves, our jobs for ourselves, our resources for ourselves.

The idea of India was formed during the freedom movement. The freedom movement was all about ousting a "foreign" ruler. Should we accept someone now, who doesn't speak my language, whose ideology I don't agree?

PS: Now = all PMs since 1947 till date.

We are indisciplined, we give a hoot to people and lives, we want our job to be done first, we have all the right to abuse and hit someone, and even funny we have loopholes to getaway with anything!

And yet I am obligated to express great pride and emotion, especially today, because it's become a Fad!

If one has to be proud of the Nation, there should be clarity on the idea of the Nation. Should we continue to be proud of our definition so far - unity in diversity? Or should we start feeling pride with the new definition being pushed - Hindu rashtra?

I would say, things are very fragile. Language, religion/caste, Political barriers are so solid, strong and the pride is towards these than the nation, these three aspects can put down India to it's knees in a blink of an eye. A Mob can just turn a town upside down, vandalize everything and it's freedom.

I am forced to pay heavy taxes for even breathing, but no freedom to question how it's being spent by our Leaders.

An unruly guy can drive most dangerously on the roads, abuse and even hit me and run away, but I don't have the freedom to cross 60 KMPH speed, because I will be fined.

Why am I highlighting only Negatives and downside of our Nation and not the Positives? Everyone else today are highlighting only positives, good speeches, I am highlighting the other side, so that balances out.

Happy Independence Day - Now what?

The day to wish "Happy Independence Day" on all WhatsApp groups and posting Status is over.

The moment of pride, feeling patriotic is over. I wonder if those wishing "Happy Independence Day" are really proud with objectivity or just emotional just because their favourite leader is giving a speech.

The political push for celebrating Independence Day is more of their opportunity to stand and give speeches.

For India to progress, we were always looking out for a visionary leader, and we trusted and believed we got one in 2014. But he again turned out to be just another Politician, but with better oratory skills. He has been good at coining new terms "Ache Din", "Amrit Kaal", "Viksit Bharat", but the hopes remains a hope.

How can we progress as a Nation? Before that how can we become a better Nation, that each of us are really proud of?

I feel the no.of Languages, States, Religions, Castes are the main culprits that is stopping us to move forward.

Education, Poverty are not the real reasons for one to be indisciplined and disrespectful. Being a Human being is a good enough reason to be civilized.

I have realised this during my visits to a few countries from the last few years.

The discipline, respecting others, being mindful, sensible, considerate has nothing to do with Education or Poverty, it's just engrained in their Culture.

We do not have commonly accepted social sense, morality and ethics, each of us have our own definitions.

Unless we inculcate discipline and social responsibility and make it a basic quality to live in a City, we will not progress.

For India to become a better Nation, we citizens should improve our quality of behaviour in society as Step 1.

The politicians must focus on generating Jobs, improving infrastructure outside the Citys to ensure people stay in their hometowns.

I still will not have hopes of any changes, because our Language and Religion differences will keep pulling us down, and Politicians can't survive without fingering these two!

If every citizen follows law to the word, traffic rules and stop littering, without being policed, half the battle will be won!

Basically, we are not ready to take criticism positively and this quality of ours will keep us where we are forever.

Multi linguistic problem

Another instance of Hindi Vs local language conflict, where an auto driver was made the villain.

Not sure why the immigrants expect the less educated, born n brought up in smaller towns to know and learn another Language, while the educated, migrating to other states in search of white collared jobs, can't learn any other language!

It is a worldwide phenomenon and a problem/conflict faced by many countries in the world, and not a unique problem within India. Recently, Sweden announced a $34K payout offer, if immigrants decided to go back to their home country.

We Indians have to first accept the reality that "India" is a union of mini-nations, with individual identity, culture, heritage & language.

India is a loosely knit nation, as our idea of India is the State where we reside.

If every mini-nation focus on developing infrastructure, creating job opportunities and yet co-exist with mutual transactions, that's when we can superficially call ourselves "one nation" and welcome each other for transactional purposes.