On Crystal Blur's Mera Bharath Mahaan

Crystal Blur, one of the few bloggers I read, has a good grip on words and puts things in a good perspective. But again, lets see how I view Bharath vis a vis developed nations. And we cannot ignore the progress made by those nations.. May be Cry should think again, why on earth did she choose US in the first place. And I personally think its of no use to compare the isolated instances and establish the equality with ill behaved people like 60+ men clamouring for seats. May be if we consider knocking door in any small town back home in the middle of the day for water, there is 90% chance of you getting water. But I wonder if you get the same favour back in States. So if we can judge people and the country by just once instance, we score much higher points than many countries.. But life's is not that simple.. I just wonder if Cry has called a taxi to escape the rush? She might venting out her anger on select desis, but has brought up a good topic to blog upon.

Can we pat on our back and say we have achieved enough and conclude "Mera Bharath Mahaan"?

Consider one particular instance:
I frequent home every 8 months in an year and I dread the idea of waiting in the immigration queue in Hyderabad Rajiv Gandhi international Airport. It never took me less than 1.5 hrs to get out of the queue, and the same in Frankfurt would take me 15 to 20 mins maximum. And there is absolutely no reason why we are so behind in providing little comfort to the travelers.. Imagine my plight with a small kid of 3 yrs so rest less and my wife totally exhausted during the flight keeping up with the demands of the little one. At the end of the ordeal, the passport officer begs like a cheapo for any amount of dollars. Believe me, I am not making this up. I had two instances where he has begged (mark my words, it was not a demand, but like, whatever you please?) for money.. Why on earth should we stoop so low. So much for inefficiency and lack of pride.

This doesn't mean we Indians are inefficient as a whole.. But we can have so many instances of inefficiencies which we can easily eliminate without spending money. Just careful & intelligent planning. Its never always about money, but a thoughtful action.

To conclude, we are way behind developed nations like Scandinavian countries, where they have achieved quite some development, respecting the environment. And the good part is we are slowly but surely catching on with development.