Glorifying the Indian Soil:
Was excited at the invitation of a dinner called specially for thespilling few good words about the work the team had done. It was a moment of half triumph! as I knew the rest ofthe half would come once Ireally complete them to my satisfaction.
Eventhough I was the only Indian, most in the group voted for Indianrestaurant to get their taste buds tickled with the Indian spices. As we sat down there, therewere few topics that bubbledup for the discussion as usual. The usual ones like the status, road map,the plan ahead and the more obvious, shall we order a wine?. Then started the the un-anticipated topicabout the countries in general.
Started with Australia and I guessed it would be India's turn sometime.Most overwhelming responses were on the dangerous animal kingdom that were a threat to the Aussieslike the poisonous spiders,jelly fish, sharks at the beaches, Kangaroos that sometimes came thro thewindshields crashing them when they were thinking that the cars would duck down when they merrilyhopped over them.
Out of nowhere a question sprung up that startled my senses and galvanizedmy neuron's dendrites to make my adrenalin rush! Lo behold, arises a shooting star, a domantvolcano. The question was is it true that in India lot of places still the sati is going on, theystone a woman to death if she is found guilty of seeing other guys, 'I heard in India they treat it lawful to make such murders'? 'is it that they often find a foreign tourist as victim, rape and murder them? '
i had to calm down my agitated nerves to explain them in detail. Guys,India, as a democratic country has given the 110% freedom for the women and alo a womens asscociationthat would raise their bannersand walk across the country in a relay mode for a simple reason, prohibitposters of semi-naked women the streets. Fact is they never made a move to prevent women from droppingtheir hats for money.
The probability of such cases happening, are there with the numberspointing to a remote chance. It does not mean that every morning a dozen of women are found guilty andscheduled throughout theday to be stoned to death! It might have happened in a remotest placewhere the head of the human pack would be crazy enought to outlay such a decision and the pplassociated with that social groupwould have agreed for the same. But its was the media that zoomed thisissue out to the world and made a big deal out of it as these non-trivial crimes attract theattention of every one.
India is shaping up now. No country was successful in just one day, but ithappened in a course of time.
India is also like that, there are no potential dangers for everyonevisiting India. No one takes a list of peoples arriving from the immigration & customs and mark everyone to bedestroyed in one way or another. Crimes happen when there is enough chance for someone in 3aspects. 1. Something to gain from it, good / bad 2. Opportunity, time, place to do it.3. Where no one can barge in a help, no one can be called out for
Judging India and all its population from the media that makes a garbageout of a speck of dust is not the right way of thinking for anyone.
India is great!! I love India!
