And Their SuperHappy Parents!

A Blog begun years ago as a stroll on the Funny Side of Serious Street, highlighting India's problems. Revived now by adding memories of old Bombay, including excerpts from Dreams of One Country. 

And Their Super-Happy Parents! 

And no one is happier with the genius entrepreneurs who develop SuperTots than the parents of those kids - for this newly-discovered chance to show-off to each other and the neighourhood. An utterly meaningless and time-wasting pursuit. For anyone in India who can afford it showing-off is one of the hottest of pleasures. They ignore the squalor around, the many whose lives are crushed by suffering and injustice. Is this the way India can hope to become a developed nation? Compare this India to Japan. The Japanese learnt a bitter lesson from their folly in World War II and set out to reconstruct their country. They aimed at lifting the quality of life of all their citizens. And there was no singing self-praise by either the people or leaders. No pompous pronouncements on what great things Japan would do. Twenty years later the world praised Japan’s achievements. 
India Cinemascopic: My novel Dreams of One Country - for download on I-phone, pad or computer from Amazon.com - is a panoramic story of young dreamsand ideas inspiring India's people to share and care for each other and build a truly modern nation.

Globalizing India's SuperKids!

A Blog begun years ago as a stroll on the Funny Side of Serious Street, highlighting India's problems. Revived now by adding memories of old Bombay, including excerpts from Dreams of One Country. 

 Globalizing India's SuperKids!

Here's another example of the kind of enterprise globalization is inspiring in India. Capitalizing on Indians with money, brilliant entrepreneurs have opened nurseries for under-school tots that offer to develop in the little ones more senses than the 5 all normal humans possess - in short, to turn them into SuperKids or geniuses. High fees ensure no undeserving kids of low income parents get in. And the stage is set for high dramatics.

Take one such nursery of geniuses. A showing-off competition begins each morning with big cars (Chevvies, Toyotas, Skodas -you name them) arriving at the gates, each carrying a tiny tot to school. (Most of the tots live within a ten-minute walk from the school.) Some are accompanied by one parent. Where both parents are busy making money, the tot is accompanied by a chauffeur and a retinue of attendants. Some cars stay around through the day - clearly indicating the parents have so many cars that one has been exclusively set aside for their tiny tot. The charade is repeated at school closing time.
Surely, one extra sense those kids are likely to acquire early is their parents' craving to show-off.
 
Can such utterly fruitless and time-wasting pursuits take India far on the road to development? Do such parents ever think of or desire to help any of the country's many half-starved kids?

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Tail Lights

1. India Illuminiscopic:
Check out Dreams of One Country on Amazon.com. If the novel's Revolutionary Theme - the March to a New Ek Desh India - appeals to you, you can download it on any device: I phones, pads or computers. In the 21st Century story youth lead India's people to unite as Ek Desh (One Country), to strive together and build an enlightened and truly modern nation
2. Can Happy Families Afford to Shut up?
Nothing is easier in the world than to jump to conclusions, misunderstand and add to misunderstandings. The preventive treatment is a family policy to bring up issues openly - if there is doubt, confusion or a suspicion of motive or intention. An unknown proverb: In families initial annoyance is better than lifetime rifts.

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