India Highway Signs - Order: In!

India Highway Signs - Order: In!

'If ever there were a people who have everything needed to succeed, it's us. If ever there were a people who need to be saved from themselves, it's us.'
From Priya Jha's campaign to arouse India in Dreams of One Country, Amazon, Books 140 pp.

Highway Sign 3 - Order: In!

Laws are essential for the smooth, orderly functioning of a country. Where laws are easily flouted and people are used to flouting them - whether it's in traffic or in their dealings - the result is a disorderly country.  

Can a disorderly country become a developed nation? The answer is obvious. So the clear Highway Sign 3 for India's future is Order: In!

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India Highway Signs - Bribe-All: Out!

India Highway Signs - Bribe-All: Out!

'If ever there were a people who have everything needed to succeed, it's us. If ever there were a people who need to be saved from themselves, it's us.'
From Priya Jha's impassioned plea to wake-up India in Dreams of One Country, Amazon: Books 140 pp.

Highway Sign 2 - Bribe-All: Out!

Systemic bribery, where anyone with any authority expects bribes to do anything, and where a public used to only that system docilely goes on bribing. And it doesn't matter where in India, attitudes are the same. That 'normal' vicious cycle of corruption must end if India has any desire to progress.  

Can any country that ignores ethics ever build a truly modern, developed nation? So the clear Highway Sign 2 for India's future is Bribe-All: Out!

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Sadly, no Self-Lifting in Rio Olympics

Sadly, no Self-Lifting in Rio Olympics

Self-Lifting, sadly, has not yet been added on as an Olympic Sport. Not at Rio anyway. But whenever that happens, it will mean a guaranteed Gold, possibly even Silver and Bronze, for some of India's showing-off and bragging champions!

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HighWay Signs: A Loot India Story!

HighWay Signs: A Loot India Story!

'If ever there were a people who have everything needed to succeed, it's us. If ever there were a people who need to be saved from themselves, it's us.'
From Priya Jha's impassioned plea to arouse the people: Dreams of One Country, Amazon: Books 140 pp.

HighWay Signs: 'Grab: Out!'
But here's a story of Grabbing Crores that many people will remember. In those days India was going mobile crazy. Even auto-wallahs and housemaids acquired them. Then mobile owners got messages that if they paid a 1000/- rupees they would get lifetime free incoming calls. Millions of Indians paid a thousand rupees for free incoming. I spent Rs 3000/-. Then, at the end of a year, we got messages saying all incoming would henceforth be free on all mobiles. (Quite possibly the government had earlier decided incoming on all mobiles should be free, just as in the landlines.) Were those who paid a 1000/- each compensated in any way? Did the government take any action? So many hundred crores were cheated from India's people! The objective in this Indian rope-trick was the one I described in the last post. Grab whatever one can get away with!

No country that ignores principles and 'conscience' can build a truly modern, developed nation? The clear Highway Sign for India's future is Grabbing: Out!

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Specialist CWashers and DWalkers

Specialist CWashers and DWalkers

In the showing-off game of those have the means in India the morning begins with the carwashing ceremony. Their cars come out of the garages on to the road for display. Specialist carwashers arrive and give the cars a thorough wash, often better than the car owners bathe themselves. Meanwhile specialist dog walkers arrive to take the show-offers' high breed dogs for a display walk...in which they freely dirty up the neighborhood. Things that can't be done in countries like America. You can't get paid car-washers or dog-walkers. And you can't miss the warning signs. You're expected to carry a scoop and container and take your dog's byproducts home for disposal. Which only proves how free this country is! Not only breed dogs but homeless dogs and destitute humans (whom no one else cares about) can freely use any public space to relieve themselves.

Whoops! Isn't that the ultimate in freedom?

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A New Dawn at 70? Wake Up, India!

A New Dawn at 70? Wake Up, India!

If ever there were a people who have everything needed to succeed, it's us. If ever there were a people who need to be saved from themselves, it's us.
'From A 'New India' Novel, Dreams of One Country (Amazon - Books): India Rises! An amazing young woman's campaign for Humaneness-Honesty ushers India's New Dawn.

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Most certainly India has the resources and talents to become a truly modern, developed nation. What has held her back for 70 years? When will she wake up to see her true potential? Can drifting day to day on the whims of pettiness lift any country to the heights? The answer of course is: ' No!' What has held India back so far? First, divisiveness among the people - by language, region, caste, creed etc. And the tendency to celebrate imaginary success. And the inclination to take advantage of others for selfish benefit. To this day in parts of the country obsolete practices like child marriage continue. So does 'dowry' harassment, driving so many wives to suicide. Even the educated fail to question their attitudes, however illogical or harsh. The latest Walk Free Foundation report again underlines democracy's failure to progress in decades of freedom. India tops the report's Global Slavery Index. Of  a 2.2 billion population, 18.3 million citizens are subjected to varied kinds of exploitation and cruelty. Worst affected are children, women and low castes. No wonder the Human Development Index of UNDP ranks India 130th among 185 countries of the world.

Today those who have the means assume that malls, foreign cars, power motor-bikes, high-rises and mobiles have already elevated India to a high level of development. They are India's foremost non-official braggers - their priority pastime is showing off their big acquisitions, ignoring the many citizens whose daily concerns are food and survival. Bragging only helps India pretend she's developing. Think of the way Japan rose after WWII. Not a word of self-praise or propaganda. In just 10 years it was left to the world to realize how much Japan had achieved  The big 'talkers' are usually not 'doers.'

No amount of self-praise, sloganeering or propaganda will lift India to the heights. Real development requires a change of attitudes, expert planning and hard work. India will rise as a developed democracy if her people come together as equals, a country whose people feel and care for each other. It needs serious introspection. A great 'change of heart.' It's the only way.
That One Way will surely take India to a new dawn. To elite nationhood.
That way is a street called CARING HEART STREET.

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India-Made Illusions 3: QualityTest

India-Made Illusions 3: QualityTest

That differentiating citizens as superior or inferior by caste in no way hinders India from becoming one of the most developed nations. No! Citizens are equal in developed countries like Denmark. This is a huge hurdle on our road to progress. Caste divisions are strong in villages. Even in cities there is a tacit acceptance of caste, specially when it comes to marriage. People's thinking must modernize for India to rise. 

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To discover a new India where people come together as one to build a an enlightened nation - an India that could have been and still can be - journey through Dreams of One Country (Amazon Books).

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