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Articles: My Thoughts | The Ugly Indian
- Mr. Ratnakar Sadasyula
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And now we come to the rather nightmarish experience of travelling in India. The moment you get down at the airport/ station, you are greeted by a bunch of taxi/ auto drivers who are eager to squeeze the last penny out of your pocket. The amount of money squeezed out depends on where you are from. If you are an outsider and don’t happen to know the place, you can be rest assured of finding your wallet empty at the end of the trip. The other option you have is to book your tour with a tourist operator, which is even worse. These guys only specialize in rush hour jobs. You are packed into small vans, much like the Jews in Nazi times, and rushed from place to place. Even before you are able to savor the beauty of a place, you are just whisked away, to another place. And the less said about the guides the better. Many come with half baked knowledge, most probably school dropouts, who couldn’t find a better job. And their sheer ignorance is astounding.
We wonder why tiny Thailand, Singapore attract more visitors than us? Well if you are a foreign visitor in India, it’s not a very pleasant experience. Many Indian tour operators assume that guys from Europe and US, are loaded in cash, and stay in luxury hotels. No, many of them are just backpackers, on budget tours, and what we offer as budget hotels are an apology. Even if these people overlook the conditions, the experience while touring is not very memorable. For me only word sums up our attitude towards people from other countries DISGUSTING, and I am being very polite there. I feel ashamed when I see my fellow country men behave towards foreigners. We act like slaves or some love sick puppies, and are so eager to get ourselves photographed with them. We ingratiate, bend, no in fact grovel before them. And I just want to say “Grow up guys, we belong to a mature nation, stop behaving like some infatuated school kids”. I really feel disgusted when I see Indians behave like that, and I don’t blame foreigners for not wanting to come here. And yes this sort of behaviour is exhibited by so called educated people. Like I told you, our education has made us more polished monkeys, but certainly not better human beings. And the less said about our attitude towards females from other countries, the better. Don’t we have any self respect that we behave in such a slovenly manner? Do we always have to behave like sex starved louts?
I want to conclude this by saying, whatever we achieve doesn’t have any meaning,as long as we don’t behave like decent human beings. And its not that we cannot. We can do. We need to take pride in our country and surroundings. We need to be sensitive to other people’s feelings, and for heaven’s sake lets have some self respect and a spine. Only then will the world truly respect us, and Incredible India become a reality.
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