I woke up this morning, asking my self how can I contribute to this country??
I havent found an answer yet. I'm not sure I'll ever get one. May be I should get into politics. But thats the word I hate the most in my life. Politics!!!
As a kid grewing up in India, your always asked to choose to professions, Doctor or Engineer. I dont know Why??
If this country was full of doctors and engineers. All the engineers have to get sick for the doctors to make a living and all the doctors woul need a home , bridge, roads, car for engineers to build. This was befor computer or chemical engineering was thought about. Then wat this country would be, why not our parents encourage us to become politician and do something for this country. Why they felt it was dirty???
I thought I would have become a good politician if I was given a free choice to choose a career. But here In India thats always a choice made by your parents. You know the greatest regret is the regret you know you could be some one else better in this society , but your nothing but a choice made by your parents.
Desire, Ambition, everything will come to stillness once u realize u cannot fight this system. System of so many bull shit. Example - Other day I was going in the bike to work. I was taken by the traffic police after the signal. He showed his hand and had a smirk on his face. He also saw the tag hanging around my neck.
I showed him all the papers. He said ok, and showed me the other hand , I dont know what he wanted this time??? I told him officer I gave u all the papers u asked me for. He said the most important paper with Gandhi's smile in it. I understood this time. I told him Sir, I got all the documents , I dont know why are u still asking me for money?? He said, Over speeding , signal crossing and for this charges pay 2500 fine in court. Sir I never commited this crime. He said, "Ok, you havent commited, IF you give me the paper with Gandhi's smile" . "Two" would make it simpler for him. I said Sir, I never commited this crime. SO I'm not paying you or the court. He had an even bigger smirk, here is the charge sheet for your crime. Fine 2500 bugs for over speeding and crossing the signal, pay it in court within a week , else your vehicle will be summoned. I didnt understand anything. I went back to him , told him, Sir, this is UNFAIR i'll tell your superiors and file a case against you.
He said with an even bigger smile "Good LUCK son" try your best. You see the money I collect is not for me actually, Part of it goes to me, part of it goes to superiors and part of it goes all the way up to the superiors you cant even think off.
Its the same as you see in Most of the movie about corruption in this country.
I had even bigger argument. At the end, after a week of all this happened to me , I only ended up paying 2500 bugs in a mobile court for the crime of over speeding , signal crossing. Also ended up paying 300 bugs in bribe to pay this fine quicker so that the goverment official could look into my case and do their jobs.
We have to bribe them to do the job they get paid to do. How worse can it get for common citizen like me or how better it could get for the goverment official to all the way up for the people who we elected to run the goverment.
THe funny part havent began yet. I told my father about this incident , he told me he experienced a similar incident when he was my age and didnt wanted to do anything about it, nor encourage his children to do something for the countrry.
He says this is how it will always be, you cannot change it. You can get urself killed if you try. I thought I was living in a democracy. Hell it looks worse than dictatorship in reality.
Long live this country, Long live the corrupt politicians, goverment officials, unkind people. IT will soon bring an end to this world!!!
I havent found an answer yet. I'm not sure I'll ever get one. May be I should get into politics. But thats the word I hate the most in my life. Politics!!!
As a kid grewing up in India, your always asked to choose to professions, Doctor or Engineer. I dont know Why??
If this country was full of doctors and engineers. All the engineers have to get sick for the doctors to make a living and all the doctors woul need a home , bridge, roads, car for engineers to build. This was befor computer or chemical engineering was thought about. Then wat this country would be, why not our parents encourage us to become politician and do something for this country. Why they felt it was dirty???
I thought I would have become a good politician if I was given a free choice to choose a career. But here In India thats always a choice made by your parents. You know the greatest regret is the regret you know you could be some one else better in this society , but your nothing but a choice made by your parents.
Desire, Ambition, everything will come to stillness once u realize u cannot fight this system. System of so many bull shit. Example - Other day I was going in the bike to work. I was taken by the traffic police after the signal. He showed his hand and had a smirk on his face. He also saw the tag hanging around my neck.
I showed him all the papers. He said ok, and showed me the other hand , I dont know what he wanted this time??? I told him officer I gave u all the papers u asked me for. He said the most important paper with Gandhi's smile in it. I understood this time. I told him Sir, I got all the documents , I dont know why are u still asking me for money?? He said, Over speeding , signal crossing and for this charges pay 2500 fine in court. Sir I never commited this crime. He said, "Ok, you havent commited, IF you give me the paper with Gandhi's smile" . "Two" would make it simpler for him. I said Sir, I never commited this crime. SO I'm not paying you or the court. He had an even bigger smirk, here is the charge sheet for your crime. Fine 2500 bugs for over speeding and crossing the signal, pay it in court within a week , else your vehicle will be summoned. I didnt understand anything. I went back to him , told him, Sir, this is UNFAIR i'll tell your superiors and file a case against you.
He said with an even bigger smile "Good LUCK son" try your best. You see the money I collect is not for me actually, Part of it goes to me, part of it goes to superiors and part of it goes all the way up to the superiors you cant even think off.
Its the same as you see in Most of the movie about corruption in this country.
I had even bigger argument. At the end, after a week of all this happened to me , I only ended up paying 2500 bugs in a mobile court for the crime of over speeding , signal crossing. Also ended up paying 300 bugs in bribe to pay this fine quicker so that the goverment official could look into my case and do their jobs.
We have to bribe them to do the job they get paid to do. How worse can it get for common citizen like me or how better it could get for the goverment official to all the way up for the people who we elected to run the goverment.
THe funny part havent began yet. I told my father about this incident , he told me he experienced a similar incident when he was my age and didnt wanted to do anything about it, nor encourage his children to do something for the countrry.
He says this is how it will always be, you cannot change it. You can get urself killed if you try. I thought I was living in a democracy. Hell it looks worse than dictatorship in reality.
Long live this country, Long live the corrupt politicians, goverment officials, unkind people. IT will soon bring an end to this world!!!
