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India: The Land of Striking Contradictions

By SiliconIndia | Friday, 03 February 2012, 05:44 Hrs | 2 Comments

Bangalore: India is always known for its unity in diversity, but it is also known as the land of contradictions. Here are the five not so good contradictions which India and Indians should be concerned of.

1. Blesses with Nature, Cursed with Habits

Nature has blessed India with its best: the mighty Himalayas, the dense Silent-Valley, the desert of Rajasthan, the divine Ganga and Yamuna, the beaches of Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea, the roar of Bengal Tiger and the beauty of Peacock. But we care little for this beautiful environment and are more concerned about the regular development issues and are obsessed with our non-environment friendly practices. The air we breathe in our cities has become highly polluted and the fertile land and river are being privatized for commercial and industrial purpose. It’s high time that India should start taking care for its environment and make people more aware of climate change issues.

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1: Change Vs Progress ..the Great Indian Myth.

Because too much of ‘Good’ is controlled by too much of ‘bad’....this equation has to be broken .only good should control good but right now many good things are happening due to bad people or bad systems.

I see a huge amount of time wasted by Indians on filmy conversations and cricket gossips which is ok to an extent but treating cricketers and movie celebrities like gods and making them the only and maximum reason for having social conversations in life, is a bit too much to be afforded for a country like India which has a lot of homework to do.

Are Movies just to be watched and forgotten?
what are these so-called heroes and heroines of our billion dollar very powerful film industry doing , they need to be told that just running and owning NGOs or doing social work is not enough that even their secretaries can do but they-who are the stars in many a films have a unique special role to influence the mind set of the masses specially the illiterate and ignorant class because this majority class is too much into hero worship and blind faith and so are cancerous to the true progress of INDIA

Change is not progress , it simply means an alteration in situation or conditions and worst it may even mean addition of new constraints without reducing the old constraints, On the contrary progress is change but which reduces the old constrains and does not add new constrains.
Has India reduced old constrains .may be it has but it is few and far from the planned goal, so it’s hardly a consolation. WE HAVE TO RAISE THE BAR its HIGH TIME …60 YEARS OF INDEPENDECE IS TOO MUCH TIME TO BE LOST.

Moreover look at the environmental conditions, our rivers are getting polluted some have become sewage carriers and drinking water resources are not totally safe to drink in many places, the soil quality in a our farms and fields is deteriorating due to toxic and chemical abuse, by our industrial and unregulated factory culture, so most of the food grains, vegetables and fruits grown in India have toxic elements which invariably goes into our food chain. Waste management and recycling technologies is a big joke in India when experts and the developed world are strongly in a mood for clean energy and recycling waste we are still talking about petrol and diesel and we have yet to deal with a safe replacement for plastic …how indifferent and naïve Indians can be, I can understand that we have not produced a single successful fighter jet in 40 years (Lca) has may issues in spite of 35 years of research and millions spent) , but not solving the basic issues of sanitation healthcare, proper roads and other very basic and common infrastructure related issues is not acceptable, since 60 years has gone by and that too for a country which has got the third largest scientific man power in the world NASA HAS GOT 20 % OF SCIENTIST OF INDIAN ORIGIN and a dozen IITs and dozen more IIMs and several research institutes of world class reputation which is partly run by the Tax payers money… what a shame !

Posted by:Sheetal krishnendu - 04 Feb, 2012