Today I was taking a walk after lunch in the office compound. I have this bad habit of overhearing others. A young fellow was also taking a long walk with his manager. I knew both of them. The guy asked his boss “Sir koi onsite opportunity nahi hain abhi? Bahut din ho gaya testing mein hi laga para hu. Bore ho gaya idhar. Sab US ja raha hain, settle ho raha hain udhar”. (Sir is here any onsite opportunity. It’s a long time now I am involved in testing. I am getting bored over here. Everybody is going to the US. They are getting settled there.) And the government keeps saying “Incredible India! India shining!” God knows how? GDP growth? Anyway this conversation, which I overheard, made me remember a recent column I read in Mint.
A couple of days back a columnist of the paper, S.Mitra kalita wrote her last column for the paper. She was writing for Mint for the last 2 years after moving back from US to India. Now she has decided India is no good and she is going back to US. As far as reasons are concerned, there were quite a few. One of them were the Indian cities are growing while the villages remained as it is. She visited her ancestral village after two decades and found it as it was when she left. So distribution of wealth was not taking place. Development was not taking place uniformly. And she had her other reasons to hate India. Despite been an Indian she was ashamed of her country. In fact she echoed the sentiment of this guy who was pleading with his manager for some onsite opportunity in US or UK. India is boring. Fuck India. Love the US and the UK.
Let me quote her “After two years in India, I know now why my parents left the country in the first place, discoveries I wrote about here”. So she had intelligent parents who took her away from this fucking India long time back. She got her education in US. And she hates India. And what more can you expect. These NRIs are always asking the question “What the country can do for me?” Only if they had asked “What I can do for my country?” But she has points and some are valid.
It’s different for people like us. People, who grew up in small towns/villages, completed their education there and moved to big cities like Delhi for jobs. I completed my Masters degree in a government university where I paid Rs 60 per month as tuition fees. And presently I have got myself a decent job in Delhi. Now what? Yes I also want to go to US. I also want to go to UK. It’s good to have ambitions. As Gecko told in Wall Street “Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind.” But how can we explain the greed of people like Kalita or the guy who was pleading with his manager to send him to US or UK for onsite project? I am not sure. But I do not like these characters. Well maybe I have never been to New York or London so I might be a little naïve. But I guess it’s good for me to live a first class citizen in India instead of a second class citizen in some other country.
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