Caught in catch phrases.

"Whose WAR is it anyway?" Oh, great! I suppose not more than three
generations of English speaking Indians have seen "Whose Life Is It
Anyway?" so we must all really salivate over how good this sounds.

"Children of a lesser God", or victims of terrorism? Ditto here, who
remembers an Oscar nominated film with the exact same name?!

Chattisgarh, "War On" Naxals! After the War On Drugs, and the War on
Terror, both of which were flop shows, now we have a War on Naxals?
India is a great place to unleash Wars upon, starting from War on
Stray Dogs, to War on Corruption, War on Filth, War on Floods, War on
Drought, and hopefully we can fight the War of all Wars with a War on
Stupidity followed by a War on Wars?

How easily the pigs of Indian television use the word WAR! It is a
word of immense import, one that evokes a state where all reason has
failed, all our abilities as negotiators have been exhausted, and a
state where our conflict resolution skills have been overthrown by
bloodthirst - physical conflict guaranteed to bring about death and
destruction. Getting caught in catch phrases is one thing, but utter
disrespect for the power of words will have grave consequences as
well. (pun intended).

A "Total Recall" of Amitabh Bachchan movies on his 67th birthday!
Phew, that should make him really proud, considering he hates the word
"Bollywood". This one is really cheap, too, and must have come from
the unfailingly low Mumbai uncreative mindset that works for the media
industry there or in New Delhi. The word "recall" has really negative
connotations of faulty merchandise, and if Amitabh Bachchan is so
faulty, we really have to cry for this nation's heroes.

If these catch phrases have not worn us down with their uncreative
repetitions in the last forty eight hours, we finally caught up with
the oldest crap term of all time, "Nuclear Capable"! This one's been
away for some time, to be honest, but back with a bang today!
"Privhti-2 successfully fired today". We all know it is a missile.
Does it make it any more remarkable because it is nuclear capable? A
nuclear weapon is simply another payload for the missile to carry.
This is the stupidest way to get people all concerned, while it really
shouldn't mean anything.

Whether we put fireworks or a bomb on it, the missile is just the
vehicle carrying it. Even a donkey is "nuclear capable", and it
really is time our dumb news channels stopped hammering us with this
infantilish term.

A missile's job is merely to hit its target accurately and to evade
counter measures. That's it. If Prithvi-2 reached its target, it's a
success. Any missile that can carry 100 kgs or more, for sanity's
sake, is nuclear capable. Your kid's school bus is nuclear capable,
as is a bullock cart.

Now why the fuck do we need to "launch" new cars? Whenever cars get
launched, they get destroyed, don't they? Haven't we seen enough
movies to know this? The BMW Z4 was "launched" today after the
successful "launch" of the Jaguar and the Land Rover range by Tata
vehicles? Do we see any of these pieces of shit in orbit around us?
At sixty lakhs for a Z4 you wouldn't have to launch the damn thing -
You would have to beg, plead, market, schmooze, and lick the boots of
the richest Indians to get a sale. The guys who know where to throw
sixty lakhs aren't going to be dying to own something just because it
got launched into their faces from a hoarding.

It isn't just a matter of creativity, when it reeks incompetence to
the nth degree. If Formula One driver David Coulthardt drove an F1
car on a new bridge in the USA at 260km/hr, and had invited a speeding
ticket and a loss of Rs. 20 lakhs to the "organizers" of the event, we
wouldn't see just the car standing still and Coulthardt getting into
his seat fifty times. We would actually see the bloody car speeding
across. For some reason, even though it happened in Mumbai, and with
this whole story that got so much "coverage", we never saw the car
going across the bridge!

There is a bunch of uncreative, giddy Indians out there, putting out
messages like we are the USA. Many of these fools directly copy not
just the catch phrases from very American precedents, but also
stupidly and crudely emulate their presentation style, whether it
makes sense to Indians or not. Are these the same motherfuckers and
whores that put white skinned models on our brands? I dread to think
that is a whole other bunch of idiots for us to deal with.

India is being Mumbaied royally, Mind it! Ugh.

We're the Superloser, and proud of it!

Former President Mr. Abdul Kalam made a startling statement recently -
that he expected India to be an information superpower by 2020. A lot
of Indians have been using the word "superpower" in their expectation
of their country reaching that status, in the very least, in their
minds.

As Indians, we lack perspective about most things Indian, not only
because 70% of our population is below the age of 33 but because a
very small percentage of us have travelled abroad or extensively
enough to know where we really stand in comparison to other countries.

Is it in any way essential that we become a superpower? Are there any
measurable benefits to being such a power? Naturally, we should look
at the lone superpower in the world today, the USA, for some pointers,
and the gap is not something to be scoffed at. The USA is where it is
because of years of investment in science and technology, incentives
for innovation, and relentless application of the rule of law.
Recently, they have even made advances in freedom of speech and
reducing the impact of racism.

India is where it is because of our collective subscription to
socialist notions, our lack of integrity in implementing any policy we
put in place, and our almost militant aversion to innovation, not to
mention the rule of law being hijacked by a political structure that
breeds nothing but degradation of every principle we should be
standing by as a democracy.

In other words, India's democracy has never been on track, but we're
indifferent enough to let it have its survival. We have no problem
with democracy, simply because it can put up with all our ills and
stupid notions. Any other form of government or governance would
involve effort but this dummy democracy works for us because it gives
the average Indian the least amount of work to do, the most amount of
benefits, and the greatest rights to remain mediocre.

In the conceivable future, India is not going to do much more than
make feeble attempts at what the USA has achieved years before, will
not innovate, will not encourage leapfrogging technologies, and will
not take decisions capable of reshaping India's rise in the coming
century. We will rise, but not when compared to other countries that
will also rise during this period that had similar starting points as
us.

The reasons are not that hard to arrive at. We have the dumbest, most
crooked, shadiest and self centred politicians, because WE elected
them. But then, let's look at who is doing the electing. The average
Indian versus the Average citizen of the USA. The average Indian
thinks nothing of paying a bribe to get something done. The
counterpart in the USA would raise hell if such a demand was made.
The average Indian has no problem putting up with filth, dirty smells,
and absolutely dirty surroundings. We just get used to it. People of
the USA have by and large set higher public hygiene standards for
themselves. The average Indian doesn't think anything of breaking
rules, whether it is in traffic or in stealing water using a suction
pump to take water illegally from the public distribution system. You
would never hear of any of this from the average person in the USA.
No wonder we have lousy government, and we participate in the blame
game rather willingly!

Stay in a hotel in India, in which foreigners, especially those with
white skin are staying as well. What are the chances that Indians get
the same level of attention and service as the foreigners? Zero. As
long as we volunteer for the lower level of service, we will continue
to be the lower people.

It's hard to look at ourselves and think, "We're inferior", but all
measurable indicators point to precisely that. India is an inferior
country compared to the developed world, and not much better than most
in the developing world. In fact, we rank 134 in the UN development
index. Considering there aren't a billion countries, and indeed only
232, this is not by any means a place to be for a "Superpower" to be,
is it?

The baggage of our "great culture" weighs down heavily upon us. We
also assume that other countries have no culture and we have some kind
of bragging rights about what a great culture we have. Oh, yes, when
a woman is molested on the streets of Patna, in plain view of video
cameras and policemen watching, we definitely seem to be showcasing
our great culture.

Our slave mentality constantly dictates how low we should treat our
own country. Look at our software industry, that thrived when the USA
was booming. Not very many of our software companies that earned
enormous profits really took it upon themselves to play a role that
would bring the benefits of the information revolution to the average
Indian. The USA has a recession, India begins to lose jobs and
despair. Why does it have to be this way, instead of using our
incredible ancient wisdom and being able to predict such collapses and
being prepared?

It isn't how much money is in the kitty that can come to define a
"superpower". It will take eons before the standard of life of the
average Indian can come anywhere close to somebody living in the USA.
Enough of comparisons. Now, let's take the absolute view.

Our railway stations do have dust bins, but most Indians prefer to
throw their garbage on the tracks. Go to a wedding and watch our
guests leave the buffet area looking like a garbage dump. It shows in
the attitude that we don't want to live in clean surroundings. We
think nothing of trashing the country for others.

Our law enforcement mechanism cannot enforce any law, because our
police force is incredibly corrupt. So, we don't care for law
enforcement, for we have set this standard for ourselves that the law
exists only to be broken. What is really unfair is that law abiding
citizenry are also endangered because of this callous attitude and
there is no breaking this vicious cycle. We just don't care!

We have the roof of an international airport leaking in the rain,
flooding an entire section, and the Chief Operating Officer is happy
enough to say no flights and operations were affected. In other
words, we should have had anacondas and pythons coming through the
roof and eating passengers and pilots before we would really care
about the hole!

We're losers. India is a fourth world country caught in a dream of
making it to the third world. We think that is the first world,
because we know no better and we care even less. The dream is not
making us work hard, with our heads held high. It is giving us the
illusion that with very little effort, we will somehow make it there,
amongst the best nations in the world. That in itself is a joke worth
laughing ten times over. We have nothing, absolutely nothing to be
proud of.

Please spare us this superpower rhetoric, Mr. Kalam. We'd be happy to
just live without these horrible pressures of life in India. The rest
of us, I would beg, stop using this word like it is our birthright of
some sort. It is a needless aspiration, and one that is bound to be a
joke sooner or later, more likely sooner, and it's not a funny one
either.

Besides, it is completely unnecessary, especially if it might come
with added responsibilities. Oh, no! We don't want any of that now,
do we?

Need to connect ‘Shining India’ and ‘Backward India’: Rahul Gandhi

http://beta.thehindu.com/news/national/article30622.ece?homepage=true

What're you waiting for, Rahul?

Here we are!

"This is very bad, very, very bad!"

Condemnation is usually inevitable, and it is usually timely from all
talking heads all over the world. It is easy to dish out, and one can
add any amount of viciousness to it, without any fear of a
proportionate bite back. We are after all the human collective, and
very happy to be in the comfort zone of watching and doing nothing,
and we in India, are the kings and queens of this collective. Not
unless our very existence is under threat do we even bother to open
our eyes to wrong. Of course we are quick to condemn, because it
costs nothing, and it is easy to get away with.

Forty people died two days ago by drowning in the Thekkady lake,
almost all of them tourists. It would have been less spectacular if
some white foreigners were not amongst them, but they were, Thank God!
Now, this is international tragedy! A freaking calamity! So, heads
will have to roll! There's a full fledged investigation into what
happened, and even ex-Navy officials have chimed in with the inside
story on life jackets and lifebuoys, and the first clean chit has been
given to the engine of the "ill-fated" boat!

For some reason, when all people in the upper deck of the boat rush to
one side to see animals, and the boat capsizes, it doesn't seem to
have much to do with the engine. Nevertheless, here we have it, in
our typical Indian incompetent fashion, with the idiotic nerve to even
report something as stupid as this - "The engine of the boat has
received a clean chit"! Great. Do we hear anybody condemning this
nonsense? Of course not. Because it needs a little thought before we
can spew.

The reason behind this tragedy is very simple physics. The boat that
was carrying these tourists overturned because it was simply not built
to have a severely uneven distribution of load. Add the extra height
of the upper deck, and the moment provided by a one sided load from
that height simply turned it over. It had no deep keel, not much of
its structure under water, and certainly not enough balancing load on
the upper or lower decks. No matter how badly maintained the
lifebuoys were, no matter how nobody had lifejackets on, this is the
reason for people dying - using a boat not designed properly for all
people to rush to one side on the upper deck.

It means that safety norms were either neglected or not even known,
given that this is India, where we still think it is "fashion" to wear
seat belts while we drive at mad speeds with licensed murdering
lunatics all around. It won't be so fashionable when you die in a
crash in a head on collision, but never mind accountability, and never
mind this investigation. We don't even have a fundamental
understanding of how to implement standards and specifications in a
simple tourist ferry operation, and that exposes one of India's
fundamental attitude problems. We neglect everything we can get away
with. Forty people didn't get away with this, did they?

It is a good thing our planes are built by Boeing and Airbus, for if
HAL were to have built any of them, we wouldn't even have safety
instructions, maintenance routines and airworthiness checks. If any
plane crashed because of a wing falling off, we'd still give a clean
chit to the engine, which by the way is most likely to be imported.
Remember the Indian Airlines brand new Airbus A330 that crashed in
Bangalore? Indian investigators were quick to blame Airbus for it,
but had to hastily withdraw their claim when all data from the flight
data recorders, and the cockpit voice recorders and other scientific
evidence clearly pointed to the fact that that pilot had fed in the
altitude as the rate of descent, and even confidently answered in the
affirmative to the plane's computer asking him back if he was sure.
Cocky bastard killed over a hundred people.

We have a lot of people in this country who are licensed to murder us.
Drivers who use the turn signal to "allow" a passing vehicle, other
drivers who think this is the rule, fools who don't put their lights
on low beam when another vehicle approaches, the fruit markets that
sell produce spuriously ripened, restaurants that use dubious
additives in the food, and the entire government machinery that
supports the sub standard functioning of all services available to the
Indian citizen are all responsible for the systematic murder of people
- you and I are definitely on the hit list, make no mistake about it.

We Indians are so arrogant in our preoccupied states of being indian,
that we don't consider ordinary things worth maintaining, or others'
ordinary lives precious. A life jacket is called a life jacket with
good reason. If people aren't handed one as soon as they get onto a
boat, or if they are not in a position to get one very quickly, it is
useless to have them. This boat that drowned out forty lives in
Thekkady had life jackets! They were most definitely there to satisfy
the bureaucratic requirements - nothing more than a checklist! This
definitely had less to do with keeping the boat operationally safe and
more to do with having to answer questions in their absence. It is
simply the Indian thing to do. As long as nobody questions us, we
must be perfect. When somebody does question us, how dare they?

For the sake of our own lives, let's condemn our apathy first and
foremost. Let's condemn the stupid statements that come out of our
incompetent politicians and decision makers. Let's condemn the inane
noise that comes out of the mouthpieces of government. Let's condemn
the gap between "requirements" and implementation. Let's condemn the
lack of scientific temper in our approach to development. Let's
condemn the rise of stupidity over knowledge, the rise of noise over
truth, and the rise of nebulous inaction over clear actions. Since we
are so good at condemnation, can we please learn where to aim it?

Hindi Diwas, to hell with us.

It's official now. The whole of India is going to be oppressed by a
new demon called the Hindi Diwas, and apparently it stands for "Hindi
Day". It's coming on Sept. 14th, and this can of worms had to be
opened by the Hindi imperialists. From this day on, it can no longer
be hidden behind well meaning phrases of national unity, nor can it be
clouded by any doubts over whether Hindi is going to be imposed on the
whole of India.

It won't take very long for us to have a "Thamizh Dinam", a "Kannada
Dina" and umpteen other equivalents, and why not? To each his
language is important, and I'll be damned if anyone dare stands in the
way of any of these occasions.

There was a debate on television last night about this, on a program
called We The People. There wasn't enough confrontation here, but
there will be everywhere else, thanks to this mindless provocation from the Hindi
imperialists. As always, the most irritating comments came in as
tweets and e mails from people mentioning Hindi as a "national
language", as if such a thing exists. Clearly, ignorance rules.

In the debate was the question - "Do we need a national language to
unite us?". My answer is a categorical NO, and even if it were deemed
necessary, it sure shouldn't be Hindi. I'd prefer Tamil to be honest.
I can already hear the conch shells being blown by the majority.
Sorry, fools, the national bird is the peacock and it sure isn't in
the majority like the crow. Neither is the stray dog going to replace
the Tiger as the national animal, nor is the flower of the parthenium
plant going to replace the lotus. So, the "majority" nonsense isn't
going to work.

There's a reason we take pride in the Peacock, the Tiger and the Lotus
and cringe about the Crow, Stray Dog, and Parthenium. If we have to
choose our "national language" based on beauty, evolutionary status,
and power of communication, there are other languages that would give
Hindi a sound pasting. Out goes the "quality" angle for Hindi.

Now, we can get onto the real debate - do we need some "unifying"
language? Now, why would I want to be unified with the pigs who have
already declared Hindi Diwas as being something of national
importance? I don't want to associate myself with this bunch of
fanatics, ever. It's a dangerous ploy from them that will create
needless suspicions, misgivings, anger, chaos, and very sensitive
distinctions between Hindi and non-Hindi speakers, and is the first
salvo in what will invariably become the most divisive cultural battle
within India. Our enemies must love this!

The assumption that India is somehow not unified already is a
dangerous one. The Indian Rupee has more than ensured that we have
enough of a market size as "India" to keep all of us interested in
staying together as one nation. We have demands for new states, but
all part of the Indian Union. Strong as ever, more officially diverse
now, more chaotic, but also more dynamic, expressive and climbing up
the ladder on the international importance stage. None of this came
about because of Hindi, but a fair bit due to English, thank you very
much.

The laziness surrounding the thought processes that repeatedly lead to
this debate is remarkable. A farmer in Goa has no need to feel
"oneness" with a carpenter in Hyderabad, but I'm sure if these two
meet by circumstance, they will be civil enough towards each other.
With or without language, their realities are fairly different from
one another, and with or without language, their differences are what
will make each interesting to the other. Homogenity will kill India
and everything we stand for.

We are a large country, an ancient country, but a very young nation.
India is still just an idea to us, and nobody really understands it
completely. We as Indians have never had any need to show our
solidarity with one another, except when the very idea of our
existence as a nation has been challenged. We do not have to be
worried about our loosely defined existence either, for it has taken
enormous courage to conceptualize this Indian nation in the first
place and there is nothing to indicate we won't have the courage to
stand by the idea, however flimsy it may eventually prove to be.

By singling out Hindi for preferential treatment, the fools behind
Hindi Diwas have taken a very dangerous, uniquely annoying, and
shallow path of celebratory giddiness that will be received as a
challenge by many of us. Part of the price to pay to live in a
democracy is allowing for the potential for a few fools to disrupt,
distort, and delay our ideas of progress. In this case, there are
sady, a lot of fools, and a lot of us are going to suffer the
consequences of their flippant attitudes towards the non-Hindi Indian.

The descent of the level of this conversation, is now brilliantly
highlighted by this ridiculous Hindi Diwas. So, what can be the harm
in entertaining some low thoughts to mark the decision? What are we
supposed to do on this bloody Hindi Day? Greet each other in Hindi?
Or speak in Hindi the whole day? Sorry vakkalolingala, naanga
Thamizhley dhaan pesuvom. Otha ennada pannuvey, chappathi naaye? Any
lower and it won't be fun. Now, if we had a day for each language in
India, that would mean we would all have to speak that language on
that day, and we can already see a least minimum of twenty five days
of our productivity going down the drain.

What have we accomplished during "The Year of the Girl Child" or "The
Year of The Tiger"? Would Hindi Diwas save our students in Australia
from racial attacks, now that we are going to be miraculously unified?
It is apparent that some people in New Delhi have a lot of spare time
on their hands and have to conjure up some nonsense, ostensibly, for
us all to get excited about. The devil's workshop is working full
time and is flying the Indian flag on its chimney.

The slide in India's national debates these days brings to the fore
not an issue that two sides see differently, but distinctly, very
distinctly, puts on stage two Indias across an enormous divide. One
side knows what the issue is and has the intelligence to deal with it,
and the other is either ill informed, uneducated, or simply incapable
of cohesive thought. It is not hard to see which side of this
volatile divide Hindi Diwas came from.

This cannot be resolved without a massive reprimand to reverse
stupidity. Sorry dear Mother India, this is going to get ugly, real
agli.

India's Cattle have Class!

First of all, "Cattle Class" is a very common term used by many people
in many cultures and it is apparent India needs to wake up and lighten
up, since many don't even seem to have heard this term before.

The BJP thinks this is deplorable and the situation is "ominous"
because China is showing intent of transgressing our border!!! That
measures the BJP's knowledge of world affairs rather well, doesn't it?
Their spokesperson hasn't even heard of the term "cattle class" but
they know what China is up to! Never mind that the success of their
famous "Pokhran 2" has come under a shadow of doubt and could
seriously undermine our minimum deterrent capabilities.

Tharoor, after all, did travel in cattle class, didn't he? Why are so
many monkeys asking for his removal? The question is - should a man's
personal comment that clearly doesn't violate any known law somehow
become the grounds for his eviction from his Ministerial post? It
would be a sad day for India if it did, but then, there have been many
sad days for our great country and more will come as long as we have
these dumb cows in government.

At the bottom of this issue is ignorance, as is with many issues in
India. For some reason, it is perfectly okay for people to travel
worse than cattle in unreserved compartments in trains, on roofs of
buses, stuffing children by the dozen into tiny autorickshaws, making
them carry heavy loads of books, getting shoved and squeezed
physically in all kinds of transportation all over India, but a man's
comment about travelling "cattle class" is evoking so much emotion?
Clearly, when there are people who travel three days on trains,
sitting in the lavatories for the entire journey, we've got our
priorities totally screwed up.

Neither do the people reacting have any familiarity with the usage of
the term "cattle class" and many don't even speak English with any
fluency to be qualified enough to comment about this. But there is
plenty of jealousy, clearly, not about a man capable of making a
comment like this, but the fact that he is familiar with new
technologies, has a distinctly modern lifestyle, and is comfortable in
the age of the internet. Compared to Shashi Tharoor, indeed, many of
our ministers do look like cattle to me. And so do the fools that
vote for them. They deserve to be herded and hounded all their lives
till they find a way to start living and behaving like humans.

Cattle definitely have more class than the treatment humans get in
India. This comment should be a compliment. Look at the mindless
millions that show up in trucks (completely violating transportation
laws) at political rallies, the millions that travel in dangerous ways
on a daily basis, get killed every year by falling in ravines or
getting hit by trains at level crossings, and you'd be lucky to be
with a herd of cattle than with thousands of these poor sods our
country is dying to uplift. Doesn't the BJP think of any of these as
ominous exceptions to their "India Shining" image?

Take a crowded local bus in any city in India and you will know
exactly what being "cattle" is all about. The majority of India does
get herded like cattle in many a public place, being "humped" by
people while standing in queues, oppressed by people who have never
even heard of a deodorant and do not have the common sense to wear
cotton clothes, and having to put up with an obnoxious amount of
physical contact for no reason with complete strangers who think
nothing of shoving other people. And we're offended with a comment on
Twitter?

Please let's get a grip on ourselves. If you can't laugh at Tharoor's
comment, that is your loss, not his. If you haven't heard the term
before, well, now you have. There's nothing to feel offended about
and if your poor, sensitive, selectively depressed, bleeding,
patriotic heart is feeling bad, the man has apologized. You'll have
to find that apology on Twitter as well, but if you didn't go there in
the first place, what the heck are you feeling bad about anyway?

HELP, your Honour!!!

The ban on Jaswanth Singh's book "Jinnah" has been lifted by the
Gujarat High Court. The Gujarat government has to inevitably follow
suit since its ban notification has been overthrown. What they should
really be sensitive about is not the lift of the ban, but the
observation made by division bench, about the notification - "book was
not read, mind was not applied, opinion had not been formed"!

In other words, stripped of the diplomacy, this is the court telling
the government, "You bastards have neither read the book, nor are
capable of understanding its contents. You have no mind, and you have
no thought process. Get the f*** out of the way". Hee hee hee! Tell
us something we don't know already. Modi and his bunch of idiots have
been shown their place. No wonder Jaswant Singh is thrilled. So am
I.

But the damning situation really isn't about Jaswant Singh's book and
the Modi government's knee jerk reaction of sorts. It has to do with
how many stupid people there are in politics and government -
something I have been harping about for a while now. Plain stupidity!
Can we constantly lean on the honourable members of our judiciary to
be rescued from stupidity? That is not what they are there for, but
they have certainly made a statement here.

We have the worst people in politics, and the worst manpower in
government. There is neither an atmosphere that encourages
intelligence or a demand for excellence in performance. Just visit
any government office and you can see how well the country is being
run. The problem with government is that it doesn't have to deliver
anything since we're okay with mediocrity.

Democracy, particularly when practised to the extreme degree as in our
country, has one major drawback. A few fools can hold back the rest
of us from progress. It is already a crime when many fools can hold
back the progress of a few intelligent people, but giving the majority
of India the benefit of doubt, we're still left with this incredible
trapping - those in government can make our lives miserable just
because they are stupid enough to do so!

What is our defence against plain stupidity? Insulation - you cannot
buy it unless you are very rich. That will mean, you have your own
fields to produce food, your own water supply, your own electricity
generation, and you have your own aircraft so you don't have to deal
with government maintained roads - at the very least. If today is any
indication, Air India planes will catch fire from fuel leaks. You
could DIE from government inefficiency.

Indifference is the other option - won't get us very far. Unless you
choose to live in a jungle without any interaction with anybody, you
are going to get hit by stupidity sooner or later.

Spiritual evasion - something we Indians are very good at! You can
tell yourself that this is God's world and you just have to learn from
it, evolve, mature, and essentially, you guessed it, do nothing! How
lovely that evolving in the spirit can lead you to be a coward putting
up with nonsense. If this is acceptable to you, like the majority of
Indians, then you have no problems.

But what about those of us who bloody well want something better than
what we have, on all fronts? Is there any real reason beyond
willingness to put up with stupidity and mediocrity for us to be
subjected to the fundamental anxiety of being Indian today? Why
should the most basic things go wrong in our country? Try going into
a government office to get a plan approved to build a house. You
cannot do it without paying a bribe unless you are willing to bully.
Why should we have to bribe OR BULLY dumbasses to do jobs they should
be doing efficiently anyway?

Look at how quickly they can move when it concerns their own parasitic
futures within government. One politician dies in a helicopter crash,
and immediately, there is an active debate about putting satellite
phones on all VVIP carrying aircraft! Doesn't matter if the rest of
us can never get accurate information about trains coming and going on
a simple automated system by calling 139. Doesn't matter how many
thousands of man hours are lost in productivity just because we have
to cover for government inefficiency, backwardness, delays and just
plain incompetence. VVIPs have to get their bloody satellite phones,
and we're paying for that, no doubt.

How come politicians get to travel on well paved roads everywhere,
while we pay road tax and have to put up with pot holes, snarls, road
blocks, dirt and debris that are never removed, and policemen willing
to ticket us for offences we didn't commit - like overspeeding on a
TVS Scooty! Come on!

The plain truth is that other people can affect our lives. The more
stupid they are, the more lazy they are and the more incompetent they
are, the more negatively they can affect our lives. Government jobs
in India attract precisely the most stupid, the laziest and the most
incompetent people. So, how are we going to escape the grind with
them? The judiciary is all we have on our side. Let's sue the living
daylights out of the government for all the crappy work they do, the
crappy decisions they take, and the things they never get around to.
No other way out of this mess. Sue, sue, sue.