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.
Change is inevitable. And change is necessary to build NewIndia.
Thinking must change. Mindsets must change. First, for example, a NewIndia will no longer be a country where a common idea is....
To grab whatever one can get away with - whether it's part of a pavement or other public use space, or government-owned land or a neighbour's property. Grabbing often starts with an encroachment that, if unresisted, grows in ambition. Cheating, lying, bribing and other deceits - in the process of grabbing - are taken as proof of one's own smartness. As for ease of bribing, there are any number of officials (uniformed and un-uniformed) who consider it their own smartness to be able to bend or break any rule or law and thus add to their daily take in bribes. And, worse, among those who wield power you'll find those who loot the most and get away.
The whole grabbing business indicates a failure of basic ethical values.
No country that runs short on ethical values can be truly modern and developed - an enlightened nation.
NewIndia will be a country of people committed to ethical values.
Tail-Lights:
NewIndia Needs MindQuakes, 1
Change is inevitable. And change is necessary to build NewIndia.
Thinking must change. Mindsets must change. First, for example, a NewIndia will no longer be a country where a common idea is....
To grab whatever one can get away with - whether it's part of a pavement or other public use space, or government-owned land or a neighbour's property. Grabbing often starts with an encroachment that, if unresisted, grows in ambition. Cheating, lying, bribing and other deceits - in the process of grabbing - are taken as proof of one's own smartness. As for ease of bribing, there are any number of officials (uniformed and un-uniformed) who consider it their own smartness to be able to bend or break any rule or law and thus add to their daily take in bribes. And, worse, among those who wield power you'll find those who loot the most and get away.
The whole grabbing business indicates a failure of basic ethical values.
No country that runs short on ethical values can be truly modern and developed - an enlightened nation.
NewIndia will be a country of people committed to ethical values.
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Tail-Lights:
New India Theme
A Revolutionary Theme, the people's inspired March to an Ek Desh India, lights up Dreams of One Country by Jagjit (and John Daniel). You can easily check it out on Amazon.com. If a transforming India theme appeals to you, venture to download the novel on any device - I-phone, pad or computer.
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