BJP says India should support Pakistan in combating terrorism. I could not laugh louder. One has to be shameless, senseless and blind to even suggest that or insane, while the ‘successful’ age is closing in more than ever,30s is now the new 20s with the young brooding money and living it up; from a street vendor to a domestic helper to a 5th grader to an 85 year old man, all have cell phones and Indian women have finally unlocked their tresses to male hair dressers. I mean it’s the coolest thing ever...
India has probably never had as much adrenaline as now...
The insanity our politicians display is almost plausibly funny. You don't know if you should laugh at them or kill them. Probably do both. While we are still squabbling over inappropriate remarks on Islam, Varun Gandhi and Shiney Ahuja and what not, the fairer sex is letting their hair down and into the hands of skilled men who swiftly chop off the Indian locks to give them bollywood cuts. While accepting homosexuality is in the process of germination, thanks to the film makers who are responsible to open up the pressing nerve about being gay, jaws don’t drop and eyes don’t pop when the cat gets out of the bag for some celebrities on their sexuality. Its like we have wide-open pores and we are absorbing everything we can. Penetrating into Indian skin is so easy, we change, we adapt and we adopt almost anything that has a potential of trend setting. I doubt if any country can boast of absorbing the aftereffects of a corporation going belly up like India did, there is always someone to rescue the dying and throw them back in the rut, Can't be said the same about lets say America. When GM went belly up, people like us ended up paying their bail out and it still died.
I had gone to a friend's house and while exiting, I saw a maid talking on the cell phone. In my head, maids can't afford cell phones. But seeing her holding a cell to one ear dressed in rags was the most contradictory sight ever nonetheless very amusing at the same time...
Every time I come here, which is lets say quite often, I can't get enough, my hate list is larger than my like list since my abode was transferred a decade ago, almost giving me a right to display my affection for America without feeling guilty of being less patriotic; but I think India is like an extra large can of red bull, at the end of it, you have wings.
Its like the place has a bag full of secret ingredients that it churns out every once in a while, adding to already complex flavors, making it even more impossible to pinch it out while it always retains its splendor.
Hail!! Javed Habib,middle class man and empty headed aging politicians; what would we do without you?
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bravo Aditi, kya blog likha hai.
India is such a potpourri of words,thoughts and images no? I remember our cook had once regaled us with stories of her stay in Singapore with a previous employer,while my mother and I are yet to step inside an aeroplane.I later realised that we have this mindset that people like the domestic helps and the bustee-dwellers are not supposed to have access to more means of comfort than us.People who had once supported the demolition of a certain masjid,are now planning to join hands to combat terrorism.The kitchen is no longer the women's legacy.They're being relegated to the back,as soon as there's a question of unabashed consumerism involved.But in the houses,it's still the women who have to don the cook's garb.Everything's just so bizarre!Your blog is like an eye-opener to all the small-little idiosyncrasies around us.Great read.
thanks guys, glad you like to read it.its astonishing how complicated India is,how much technology is used by people dwelling on streets who ironically are lacking even the most basic amenities ...the contradiction is so multidimensional..but i guess thats what makes India.
Just a comment on cellphones & the commoners : All of us know for a while now that cellphones are the commonest thing in India. I mean come to think of it, it matters more whether your maid/cook/driver has a cellphone or not than whether your spouse has a cellphone! But the real good use that this amazing technology has been put to for the vast majority of this country is what I've experienced first hand and feel is worth sharing. CNBC and a few other Indian news agencies have come up with this annual package of text messages for all the commodities that a farmer growths or a commoner trades in: Like Cotton, Groundnut, Soya, Wheat, Castor, etc. It costs Rs. 1500 per annum and these guys send you at least 25 messages through the day on the commodity you've opted for. A cotton farmer in Gujarat hence before moving his produce to the Auction market yard or the ginning factory he sells his produce to knows exactly what happened at New York Cotton Futures overnight based on which he negotiates with the buyer in question! Almost all of those farmers are hardly educated but they know the direction of the movement now and upto the minute thanks to these text message service which of course is such a rage! I had read a similar story about fishermen using the cellphone to great effect to know exactly which market is offering the best price for their catch on a particular day since his catch is perishable and once he brings the day's catch to a particular market he better sell it off out there whether he gets a fair price or not lest he be left with rotten fish! But now with his cellphone he knows which market can offer him the best rates, sitting right at the source before moving his catch to a market! Now that to me is a real mass-good a technology like this can do to India!!!
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