A debate is raging currently between me and Loky. To give you some background, he has spent the last 3 years out of India (Japan, US and Germany) and is now desperate to return to India. Vikas is on the verge of immigrating to Australia in March and Loky feels that this is a bad move on his part. I think moving out of our bloody country (to some specific countries like Australia, New Zealand, parts of Europe, Singapore, Thailand or Malaysia) is the only sensible option left. Here are some excerpts of our mature conversation:
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neil_goswami: as far as i am concerned noida se adelaide is zillion times better place for sanika to grow up in
Lokendra Singh Parihar: so u guys think no indian kids should grow up in india, thats ridiculous!
Lokendra Singh Parihar: so u think confused desis are better than desis
neil_goswami: shut up u fucking NRI
neil_goswami: 2 saal bahar rehke patriot bann gaya behn ka loura
neil_goswami: 2 german kya gaand pe laath maara behnchod indian hone ka yaad aa gaya
Lokendra Singh Parihar: sach hamesha kadwa hota hai
neil_goswami: kadwa kyu hone laga? mai to hu desh me..tu aaja..fir baat karte hai
Lokendra Singh Parihar: i'm sure, i'll be happy to be in india
neil_goswami: yes..and if u r not u will convince yourself that you are
Lokendra Singh Parihar: no i'll not
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Here is what he will find when he arrives in India:
1) He will carry his suitcase across the tarmac and step over overflowing shit from the toilets because AAI is striking.
2) He will be robbed blind by the taxi driver whose taxi he will take to reach home.
3) On the way he will sit a traffic snarl-up because some political party has taken out a procession protesting America’s role in Iraq.
4) Relaxing on his couch in the evening he will watch a news channel where there will be a 3 hour special about a DIG Police who has started believing that he is the reincarnation of Radha.
5) Retiring to bed he will stay up till 1 AM because the neighborhood ‘club’ is celebrating some religious festival by playing LOUD film music.
6) In the morning papers he will read that income tax sops given to salaried individuals have been withdrawn by the Finance Minister and the HRD has decreed that his son will have to learn Kannadi in school for 6 years.
7) He will go to office and do bullshit work and then find out that he has stay late in office to attend a telecom with US clients.
8) He will find that colleagues are uncooperative (and some downright hostile) because he is a ‘north-indian’.
9) On a long weekend he will take his wife to a resort only to find that he cannot venture out too much because a group of boisterous, rowdy and drunk students are making life miserable for everyone.
Come soon Loky. India is waiting for you.
Feb 3, 2006
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6 comments:
waaaaaaaaaaaah!! sabas loky sabas. tu to manoj kumar bann gaya yaar!! jai hind..aaja, fir khoob dhamaal karenge.
chalo shukar hai..nehi to tu aise mood me hai main socha bolega varanasi chalte hai freak out karne ke liye
hmmmm.Loky sure u have put some doubts back again in my mind but dnt you think i must have given this a mighty thought (talking about moving to australia), but i still think migrating is a better option unless my lawyer who says he will get rid of all my payables by declaring me bankrupt means it.
The tiger is fighting back mate its just a matter of time. You are right about change in my attitude guess gotta start thinking afresh again and it will be wise to go in attcking mode again.
so with this line i reslove that i ll try to change the way i have started looking at things.
thanks mates i love you
i guess thats the main thing buddha. if every decision had to be arrived at based on reason and thought, then this world will be a very boring place. if people take decisions based on emotion and sentiment, they seem more human and the world becomes more interesting. guys..buddha is my 'nephew' from the land of dhoni who is currently in yale.
to dear Shuv :u dont leave yr home just bcoz the neighbours r having a better interior,or do u?
u dont go and eat in yr neighbour's house just bcoz the food is better.or do u?
u dont change yr mother just bcoz yr friend's mother looks better.or do you?
to dear loki : Its quite evident that there is something missing. you can change home,you can change yr country but the missing will continue.You will miss something in a better home too.you can go on piling up new furniture,new paintings,new cars but again and again u'll find something missing.
YOU are missing.YOU are not at home.And the furniture cannot do it.Nothing can be of any help unless YOU come home.
YOU have drifted apart from yr centre, You r out of touch with yrself,probably for a long time.Returning to yr source will be coming home.your source is Not India or any other country,but your source is Lokendra Singh Parihar.
dear loki,more and more i read yr section more and more i becme certain that u r taking the righ decision.in fact the way u have put up the whole thing was starting to give me a weird kind of thrill man!
if i had known u i would definitely toasted to this with you.THREE CHEERS boss!!
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