Thursday, November 19, 2009

The Intellectual Indian

Guys, gals, folks, friends, brothers, sisters and everybody who is Indian, this one is for you all. Actually, the idea of the title comes from ‘the intellectual maharashtrian’- a post, my cousin sister had written long ago. Why only Maharashtrians? Every Indian is intellectual. Right? But the only problem is that, this intellectualism remains of tertiary, mind it not even secondary, importance to everybody.

I recently happened to watch this movie – 2012. Whatever they have shown is indeed a pure work of fiction and the Mayan prophecy has been already trashed. But just imagine, just imagine the DEADLINE IS 12/21/12, then what?

All of you have dreams, passions, goals, et cetera and certainly before dying you want to reach your goals. You can do anything for that, anything for your own good. That’s just one thing which you want to do for YOURSELF. Think a bit selflessly this time. Do it just for a couple of years (3 more- take that as an assumption). It’s a bit difficult to be selfless because I know to what extent we are selfish. Let’s all make India a developed country before 12/21/12. Impossible is nothing (i know ‘impossible’ is the first word which has come to your mind.)

Stop being reserved. Be open, share your knowledge to others. Stop thinking he/she will score more than you. This is applicable everywhere. Why are we so obstinate? So lazy? So obsolete? ‘kaamchorpanti’, why do are we like this? Why can’t every task be perfect? If every task is perfect, India is perfect.

ME- here lies the problem, inside ‘me’. Clean yourselves and turn that ‘me’ into ‘our’.

A lot of us litter on the roads and if you are one of them you are an asshole. These people have made India, a dustbin. Now you will say the municipal bodies don’t provide enough dustbins. Well, all of us have pockets in our pants, skirts (mini-skirts could be an exception. But girls with miniskirts have boyfriends and their pants certainly have pockets). Dump the trash into your pockets. “No no, how can we dump trash in our pockets, it’s gonna spoil our D&G cloth”. And it is just so paradoxical when you dump it on India and at the same time say that you love India.

4 wheelers, 3 wheelers (referring to the reckless autorickshaw drivers), 2 wheelers start obeying the traffic rules. And if you are really illiterate then red light means stop, green light means go, yellow means slow down. Do not halt your vehicles on zebra crossings. Make way for the pedestrians. Pedestrians, please walk on the footpaths. Please, please bloody fuckers follow these simplest traffic rules which you have already been taught in you prep grades.
Our mentality, our perspective should be broader. We have a lot of time for prayers and god. Our country, our personas should be of the topmost priority. We should stop fighting to prove our languages and religions superior. Think how your doing/misdoing can affect the growth/undergrowth of the country.

Politicians, huh! We really can’t do anything about these blowholes. It would be pointless if you ask me the meaning of blowholes. I wish I were one (politician) and could possibly make things right. But still, don’t be corrupt. USE THE NATION’S MONEY FOR NATION ONLY.

Education is provided everywhere. But what kind of education is provided? What’s the use of such education which makes people to think only about them? “i am like this and i am right, everybody else is a fool and fools are turning the country down. Not me. Don’t blame me.” 90% people here think this. At times even i do. We should be vulnerable to good changes. If the other person wants to make something good in us then why not let him do so? Conquer your egos. (Applies to me also.) if any of these words are going to fall on the poor people’s ears then please, a humble request would be to educate your children. They are gonna make the future of this country.

These were the smallest references which I gave. There are a lot of things which you can do. Turn your head 30 degrees and you’ll see 30,000 flaws in our society. We the common people, we know what is right and what is wrong. Let us all be one country and not be some Marathi, Bengali, Urdu, Oriya, Tamil, Telgu, et cetera. Let us unite for this one good cause-the development of our country. Let the date 12/20/12 be the date when the whole world looks above and says in aw, “look! That’s India, the country whose people developed it in just a span of 3 years.” Won’t we be proud to hear this? This can be the greatest, greater than your dreams, achievement for everybody. It is difficult, but not impossible. It’s YOU who can make the change. Why just be a common man with big aspirations and great money? Why not be legen-wait for it-dary? :P. We are intelligent. As you might have seen in the movie also, it was an Indian who had discovered the neutron reactions on the sun. So, we, the Indians are awesome, intelligent, bright and fabulous. Okay, i agree that ‘3 years’ sounds a bit gibberish but we can at least start being civilized from the next moment. This should provide some momentum for the development. It’s not that I follow each and everything which is written above, but by writing this I know what are my mistakes and my responsibilities towards my country. Be retrospective. At the end of the day ask yourself one question, “what constructive job did I do today?” Think out of the box. Think in ‘macromode’ and not ‘micromode’. Right now there’s a ‘spark-turning into-ever erupting volcano’ inside me.

Phew!

Acknowledgements:
Nishant Kuranjekar and Nimisha Chavan, who constantly think in ‘macromode’and who are really sensible. And all those Indian people who litter on roads, don’t follow traffic rules etc (that’s how i was able to think so much).