Being home is awesome. But, being away also teaches you to look at certain things in a different perspective. If you are in country that has infrastructure in a far better fashion, you tend to think why India cannot be that way. When you look at some of the road projects that are underway, its hardly something India can be proud of. As an example, we drove on the Nellore - Chennai highway that is fairly decent to drive on only if you don't have a RTC bus in front of you or if you don't have a truck that is merging into the highway. Some of the lane merges and bus stops defy basic civil engineering principles and the architect of these roads got to surrender his Civil Engineering license. It is shameful to say the least when you could have looked at hundreds of examples of how a road should be.
Talking of examples, a developing country like India can choose to acquire the best technology there is. Seems like that is happening in the mobile telephone infrastructure. I was travelling by the local train from my village to Chennai during rush hour. On my plinky wooden seat, there were five of us squeezed together. It was an hour's ride where I saw someone easily making a 500 bucks in matter of minutes selling his 'Lovely' juicer, a small little tool that could help the juice out. I saw three daily wage workers with the most sophisticated telephones that you could ever see. It had movie streaming, audio and syncing capabilites and the best part all three were being put to use by someone who probably never had an opportunity to read. One of them said, 'da matchi, andha song enga anpe (send me that song)' and the other oblidged by connecting to this other device via blue tooth. In a matter of seconds, both were synced up. Beauty of technology -- present it in a usable fashion and the masses will take care of the rest. If that only were followed in our road system, we would have seen better infra.
Come elections, several of us have heard politicians promise color TV's, gold for women in the manifestos. What in the world is the Election commision doing letting this craptards promise such ludicrous agendas? When a family out there is searching for food, a color TV's in his/her dining room would serve no good.
Expecting a sensible government in India is to expect a religion without hell.
The last week was a breeze. Few dinners, last minute get togethers and a promise that I would return soon enough occupied most of it. Headed to the Hyderabad airport at 2 in the morning. The airport and its facilities are certainly world class but the security sub-standard. Neither are they patient enough to understand what the passenger talks nor are they prepared to deal with such things. I had a BA e-ticket and in my anxiety to leave home, I had forgotten to take the print out. If an e-ticket is issued, most places across the world don't need to have one. The first security guy started showing full attitude and said go get the print out. Some other person with some sense had an itinerary of passengers flying with BA. Simple solution. If the politicians let some sensible people get on board, we would soon see a much better India. In a year or more time, I hope to get there either to change or be changed.
Talking of examples, a developing country like India can choose to acquire the best technology there is. Seems like that is happening in the mobile telephone infrastructure. I was travelling by the local train from my village to Chennai during rush hour. On my plinky wooden seat, there were five of us squeezed together. It was an hour's ride where I saw someone easily making a 500 bucks in matter of minutes selling his 'Lovely' juicer, a small little tool that could help the juice out. I saw three daily wage workers with the most sophisticated telephones that you could ever see. It had movie streaming, audio and syncing capabilites and the best part all three were being put to use by someone who probably never had an opportunity to read. One of them said, 'da matchi, andha song enga anpe (send me that song)' and the other oblidged by connecting to this other device via blue tooth. In a matter of seconds, both were synced up. Beauty of technology -- present it in a usable fashion and the masses will take care of the rest. If that only were followed in our road system, we would have seen better infra.
Come elections, several of us have heard politicians promise color TV's, gold for women in the manifestos. What in the world is the Election commision doing letting this craptards promise such ludicrous agendas? When a family out there is searching for food, a color TV's in his/her dining room would serve no good.
Expecting a sensible government in India is to expect a religion without hell.
The last week was a breeze. Few dinners, last minute get togethers and a promise that I would return soon enough occupied most of it. Headed to the Hyderabad airport at 2 in the morning. The airport and its facilities are certainly world class but the security sub-standard. Neither are they patient enough to understand what the passenger talks nor are they prepared to deal with such things. I had a BA e-ticket and in my anxiety to leave home, I had forgotten to take the print out. If an e-ticket is issued, most places across the world don't need to have one. The first security guy started showing full attitude and said go get the print out. Some other person with some sense had an itinerary of passengers flying with BA. Simple solution. If the politicians let some sensible people get on board, we would soon see a much better India. In a year or more time, I hope to get there either to change or be changed.
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