TOLERANT INDIANS

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TOLERANT INDIANS

English translation of an article that appeared recently in 

THUGLAQ--a Tamil weekly edited by CHO is reproduced. 

The President has complained that the people be more tolerant and understanding – Fantastic and very commendable. Let us analyse our tolerance level and find where we are lacking.

 

1.Politicians have improved from their corruption target of few lakhs to 1.76-2.0 lakh crores and we tolerate them.

 

2. Election time – self declaration wealth of 1000 crores, and we never asked them from where they got this from their previous statement of  few lakhs 5 years back. Not only that we accept his so many privileges and subsidised everything from idlis to plane tickets and “Z plus” security and traffic  snarls because of their movement.

 

3. We also tolerate that sons and relatives are the natural choice of becoming their successors in positions like CM, ministers etc We justify that by saying we are used to Rajah and Zamindars and we accept them as their right.

 

4. Parliament and assemblies have become circus arena and fish market with shouting, counter shouting, flinging of objects like chappals, and abuses. We appreciate their heroic sense of responsibility and praise them with poems and lectures on their achievements.

 

5. For 50 years each successive government has promised to bring in the black money and they are still trying! Endless list of offenders, bank cheaters, fraudsters are published by all media with proofs. But they continue to live the same lavish style and are very well taken care of by the politicians. They scratch each other’s back.   We just don’t bother and ignore saying “nothing is going to happen” and just get on with our own miserable life.

 

6. Fake doctors, fake lawyers, fake teachers, fake medicines fake everything! Many times they look better than originals-Do we complain – No, Mr. President.

 

7. Our pride, the ”excellent” condition of roads, water contamination, power cuts,  hospital hygiene, we never complain and we learn to live with them and adjust to realities.

 

8. Doctors steal kidneys, teachers help students to copy (even a DIG was caught copying recently) bank officials loot the bank cash in their own way, police help the criminals. What happens – nothing. It is all TV entertainment news for us. We sit and enjoy the loud talk shows and debates and forget everything the very next moment. We are not ashamed that the rest of world is laughing at us and we are jeopardising the values of our institutions and students.

 

9. Government lavishly throws money meant for development for freebies like tvs, mixies, grinders, goats, cycles and laptops (only to their party affiliates) and call it their achievement . We admire them and make posters, cutouts 50-60 ft high right in the middle of roads and garland them.

 

10. Corruption at all levels and our bureaucracy is brilliant in devising ways to collect money from public. Any alternative or improvement is shot down promptly, by devising method to subvert and bypass them. None can ever beat them in short circuiting the system and make it ineffective.

 

11. Pakistan crosses our border and beheads our soldiers and China tells us to vacate from our own land. Do we object –NO. We only warn them and we are tolerant.

 

12. There is Power shortage, Rape, farmers suicide, draught, river water fights between states.  Do we bother? We are only concerned with why Dhoni did not score a century in every test and why Salman Khan did not smile at Shahrukh Khan when they met!!

 

We are interested only in showbajjis. Swatch Bharat - we all take a broom stick and clean where ever it is already cleaned and on our way back throw bottles, cans, wrappers, tissues and what not all along for more swatch Bharat !! We all know nothing happens to us if we violate any civic or/and traffic rules or for that matter any rule!!

 

So Mr. President where did you find us intolerant and please be specific so that we can ‘improve” further.

 

Courtesy. Ideas from Sathya of Thuglak magazine

 

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