I don't proud to be an INDIAN

In one fine morning my neighbor was sad. When I ask, he said India lost in world cup and is out of world cup. I said no as far as I remember India is doing fine in women’s cricket. Agitated by my response he said “Yar!! What nonsense are you talking, who watches women’s cricket”. That night when I was going to sleep, this thought was traveling my mind and I was forced to think that how hypocrites we Indians are. I mean its not that we like cricket, it’s that we like to watch man’s cricket only. If you ask the name of any cricketer to even a school going kid, he will tell you 20 names let alone the giants Dhoni,Yuvraj and Bhajji. If you ask somebody the name of women cricketers, you will get hardly 2-3 names. Even I (your writer) am not an exception. I know Mitali Raj, Anjum Chopra and Jhoolan Goswami (with best of my knowledge). At one side Sachin, Dhoni earning crores from the game, advertising, Indian captain Jhoolan Goswami said that their earning is 2-3 lakh per annum. It is said that cricket is a religion in India. Its true and parallely the fact is also true that this religion is eating all other sports. Should I give you the example of hockey (our national game), badminton and table tennis? I will not take the example of football as football still has large number of fans in India. But just fans no players. We are enjoying this festival by cheering for the county to whom either we can pronounce better like BRAZIL (by any other reason) or we manage to recognize a popular player with its belonging country”. In Hindi this is called “Begani shadi me Abdulla diwana”. Now if you are thinking that we Indians are hypocrite only in terms of cricket then please don’t even think of it. In India sex ratio is 933, In every 42 mins one sexual harassment case registers and abortion rate is also very high and after all this we considers girls as Durga (Indian goddess) in Navratri. It means in navratri they are devi’s and in other months they are mere sex toys. Once I was coming in a lift outside my office then a man said to another: “Have you seen that receptionist? She is such an item.” So what was the fault of that girl; she was working there. Let me give you some more examples of hypocrites Indians; few months back there was a movement in parliament to put a ban on bar dancers. They said that it increases the prostitution in our country. I couldn’t understand the analogy. These girls were working there to earn money. They were in job because many big people came to these bars. So should not we ban these people??? ….This is all politics. When some one is trying to pass some nuclear bill, people have to wait for years and MP’s salary hike bill will pass in 2 days. In some village in khargone district, few days back few high caste people beat two low caste peoples as they have entered in their temples. This is called casteism. Which allows one person to serve god while stop the other. I am confuse how come no one ask the religion of prostitutes or the caste of bar owner. It may be because caste is no bar when it comes to physical pleasure. About prostitution, our view is really strange. People hate it still they went there, in other countries it is a job for which they pay taxes but in India it is used as a slang word. When we are talking about hypocrites, how we can leave MNS (Maharashtra nav nirman sena)/ shiv sena/ ABVP who are swore to be true patriot. They will attack on peoples on Valentine’s Day or friendship day, they will fight with north Indian people and beat them in railway and bank exams but they have no answers for “Bangladeshi refugees”. I want to ask Mr. Bal Thakrey that why he is silent on Mr. Ram Jethmalani who put a board outside his home that “I left all form of official practice, enter only if you have good offer” And every now and then taking the cases of all bomb blast convicts. Politics is full of mean, narrow minded and hypocrite peoples. They slam other parties to have criminal record people while at their turn they will shake hand with such people. Latest example is of BJP in Jharkhand.

The party’s tickets are distributed not on the basis of work done by candidate but how famous or reach candidates are does not matter whether they are sport person or bollywood celebrity. Politics is mingled in the society so much that even the most prestigious awards are blamed to be biased. Take the example when Saif Ali Khan got “Padma Shri” and Kareena Kapoor got “Youth icon award”. I am unable to understand what they did for society and in their respective field. Till now they are famous for all the wrong reasons. Bollywood is the biggest home for hypocrites. Sanjay Datt, Salman Khan and Fardeen, they are still getting all the love of Indian public despite having serious criminal charges against them but when an outsider Shiney Ahuja accepts rape charges against him, no one came in his support in fact no bollywood actress or director was willing to work with him. In this same bollywood, Abhishek and Uday Chopra got several offers despite having 5-10% success record and I need not to tell you the struggle of talented actors like Priyanshu Chatterji, Jimmy Shergill, Ashish Vidyarthi, Sharad Kapoor, Ashutosh Rana, Manoj Vajpayee.

Now lets move to small bollywood i.e. television. On orkut you will find many members in a community “I hate ekta kapoor”. Here let me make one thing clear that I am not a fan of Ekta kapoor or nor of her serials. Ekta kapoor is same girl who is ruling so called “chhota parda” from last 7-8 years. From the ground, she built an empire of millions. People blame that she works for TRP and modifies her serials for that. But question is that isn’t Indian public liked her serials. Some of her serials are topping the TRP from 3-4 years. The surprise part was that more women’s then mans join such communities. I can understand man’s stand over ekta as in this male dominating society how they can like a girl ruling them but what about women’s?? This is the same audience who love to watch “kuch kuch hota hai” and “dilwale dulhnaiya le jayenge” but when their daughters fall in love with somebody they killed the couples on the name of “honor killing”.

People are of dual mentality as they hate all so called ‘moh maya’ when they went to “shamshan ghat” but after they took bath they forget everything and started behaving normally. Our society is so male dominated that we kept one fix day in week for lord hanuman, shiva and ganehsa but for laxmi and saraswati we have 1 day in whole year. Since I am in Gujrat so how can I leave this state, Gujrat is said to be DRY state. Dry because people are good and they do not want to have liquor. But if by chance you visit DAMAN and DIU, you will get 99% vehicle of Gujrat. I mean people are doing everything they just don’t want to do it in their home town. Isn’t it strange? Alcohol is ban in gujrat and there is heavy fine on its import but in last 2 months I purchased alcohol 4 times. Now you can understand the situation.

Few days back one sms was circulating which was like:

Ques: what is India?

Ans: 1. a nation where pizza reaches home faster then ambulance or police.

2. a nation where you get car loan @ 5% but education loan @ 12%.

3. a nation where rice is Rs. 40 but sim card is Rs. 10.

4. a nation where people standing at tea stall reading an article about child labor and say “yar bachcho se kaam karwane walo ko to fansi pe chada dena chahiye” and then they shout “oye chhotu 3 chay la.”

This is India, incredible india isn’t it?

Lets conclude this blog with some lines:

EK DIN MAIN SAIR KO NIKLA AWARA,

TABHI DIKHA FOOTPATH PE PADA THA EK BECHARA,

BHOOKH, PYAS, THAND AUR GARIBI KA LAGTA THA WO MAARA,

TEJ HAWA SE UDTA THA BADAN KA CHEETHDA SARA,

TABHI HAME DIKHA PEETH PE LIKHA THA YE NAARA,

SARE JAHAN SE ACHCHA HINDSOTAN HAMARA…

PS: This blog is my anger. You can take it the way you want.