Things that we are yet to learn...

Well probably the last year(2008) would go down as a time full of contradictions, altercations, controversies, double crossing, break ups(not only for companies like Lehman brothers but also many others!! :P), swindling, cheat, fraud and what not....right from the mortgage crisis in 2007 to companies going broke to satyam fraud But the most unforgettable of all these were the terror attacks in mumbai. Though i do respect the integrity of our nation having over 100 languages and diverse cultures, its events like these which help to maintain that feeling of indian-ness among people. Perhaps with north indians being beaten up in Mumbai and the kashmir issue re surfacing in every few years this country would have had its autonomous states just like the soviet union had these events not happened. I mean who knows about the leaders of the indian struggle, or how the parliament is run, or the fact that the recent elections were for selecting MLA's and who all were selected and so on and so forth, all that people(younger generation)remembers is that shahrukh had a shoulder operation while there is a cat fight going on between Katrina and Kareena

( Thank you India Tv!!).



But does anyone know that the UN gives free rice to poor people for every correct answer to the questionnaire on its website (it has donated over 59 billion grains till date) ...all we know is that answering a questionnaire on facebook will help in finding our compatibility with that soulmate of ours...neways..Please do visit this website------
http://www.freerice.com/index.php


And how can we forget girls being beaten up by Mutalik's Ram Sena, they do deserve the beating they got after all this aint a democracy..who said right to freedom is a fundamental right..Even lord Rama,if he exists(i am not an atheist but i am an agnostic), would be ashamed at these acts.





The other side of opulence- While 4 of the world's richest persons are from India, 80%( and this is out of 100%, no kidding) of the Indians still earn less than 2$ a day, a report from the world bank!! For all those who still dont believe the authenticity of these claims can perhaps make a visit to the M-Block market of Delhi( and for all the guys, please dont go there for the obvious reasons :P) and visit chandni chowk or perhaps the suburbs of greater noida.
Then the recent controversy regarding the slumdog controversy, i do understand that perhaps the word 'dog' could have offended some people...mainly because they could not understand that the word comes from another word 'underdog', but why do we have these insecurities that the world would get to know about india as a country of slums( as if it earlier didnt) . It's more shameful to have them than to rather show them.


The mumbai slums have grown to be the largest in asia...woohoo we have finally beaten the chinese at something!!
The fact that bites all those who oppossed this movie is that a foreigner has gone to a 'no man's land' and shown us a mirror which always faced the other way.
I know that "koi country perfect nahi hoti, use perfect banana padta hai" but the fact is are we doing anything to accompalish that state of so called perfection??