India Shining or Shunning

There are a lot of things quite correctly said. It is indeed our disrespect for our country and the law that makes us a poor country. The most popular word circulating in all our newspapers today - CORRUPTION. Corruption starts from a small thing such as a bribe paid to a cop in order to get a lesser fine. Only a handful of people actually pay the fine and get a pavti from the cop when he has broken a traffic rule. "Rules are meant to be broken" - fancy statement, but only applicable for benefitting one's life or workplace.

One great example is that we spit, throw trash on the roads of India, but would not dare to do that in a foreign country for fear of being looked down upon. No wonder, foreigners who come here are opinionated about us Indians. They totally love and adore our culture, but they scorn our habits.

There are pros and cons to the whole thing.

In foreign countries, people respect hard work, cos they are left by their parents at an early age to go about making a living. They realise the value of life the hard way - no wonder they say the US has a big hue and cry when any of its citizen's die. Such explains the fact that there hasn't been another 9/11 in a decade, such has been their reaction to the terrorist activity and such is the value they have for their citizen's lives. The same cannot be said about us developing countries.

Politics, corruption will be there in each and every place in the world, but it has to be at some level. In a "poor country" like India (who has lakh crores stashed up in Swiss banks according to a chain mail) the corruption exceed human possibilities. Thats why they say, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

Now enough of bad mouthing, lets come up with some positives. We Indians do have a sense of saving our money because we too are hard working and we realise the value of money. Plastic money (read credit cards) has become a way of life but we still save a significant amount to make our banks stand...