The world cup has been won by India after a gap of 28 years. And if you ever thought I was speaking about the win or the future of Indian cricket, it's no where related to it. And I'm sincerely sorry to have disappointed you folks. The reason I started off the way I did, was to make you all aware of my devout efforts towards writing this. I helped India win the world cup, albeit in tiny magnitude, but I still did. I never moved out of my place, never changed my position for the whole of the Indian batting. And goodness me, I hadn't even chosen a comfortable position for me to sit. And that, sends to my bums a very scary signal every time I rest it!
Putting all that pain, and all those sores behind(i didn't mean to say on my back), I am sobering about something, that is not certainly on the right path! That makes you take even more seriously, a serious note of my serious efforts(That was quite "Serious".Seriously!).
On that note, let me give u a preview of what the down hill is, actually. Being a fervent Indian that I am, there were dreams of driving around in a luxury "Indian made" sedan, equivalent to or slightly above par with a BMW X6 or even the Audi Q7. The term Indian made, was solely for the love that I bestow for my Motherland. Forget about driving such a luxury car. We, the people, the citizens of the country, including the top honchos from the Political, Cinema and the Sports fields, who run the Circus called India, are not blessed with the joy of a luxurious journey on road. By this, you must have also noticed that it is not the politics/politicians that i am making my soft target as. Then what the heck is this post all about. If you actually had read between the lines, you would have guessed by now. The topic that I chose today, is the Indian ECONOMY.
Tagged as one of the top upcoming Economies of the world, let us have a look at what makes this huge country, still an upcoming economy and not an established one. Please, for the sake of the holy heavens above, just get out of that prejudice that it is because of those blood sucking bugs(Read as Politicians) that we are still growing. No. For heaven's sake, it's not them who are hampering the growth of the country's economy. It is you and me, the "Mango People", the "Aam Junta", that is hampering the growth. I know you are feeling irked about me, and you feel like banging the monitor assuming it was me. But can't help neglect the fact.
Just go back in time.Perhaps your dinner for example. When was the last you dined at a restaurant? What was on the menu that day, and how much of it made it to your table? I'm sure you left out many choices that were available. And how much of the food that arrived at your table, made it to your digestive system? Once again, not everything was consumed. There was a larger chunk of food left out. Yeah, there are helplines available, which gleefully accepts your wasted food and feeds it to the needy and the hungry. The problem we are fighting here is Economics and not hunger. So, you wasting your food was not the cause of the state of our Economy(jeez, you can breathe now.). The problem was, your greed. The food, you didn't fall in need of, was consumed by someone else. But think about it. Not every time you can feed them. Come on, they too have a life and they are not waiting for someone like you to waste food, to fill their stomach. So, you may say, "What's your problem mate? It's the money that I have earned, that I am spending today.", well, that precisely is my problem. You are not spending your money. You are Wasting resources. And you definitely haven't earned the resources. It's the country's resource that u wasted. In a country of over a Billion people, even if half of it turns out to be wasting resources, where will the economy end up? You know your math better.
So, even if half a billion people, went around wasting resources the way they do, then all that would originate, is utter chaos. Which way would our economy grow? Will it end up being an established economy, or will it still struggle with the tag of an upcoming economy, or will it go down in a spire, down hill all the way?
I would keep it to this, assuming every one of YOU, can take it forward from here on and do your bit for the lovely Circus. Here, I rest my case.
Ps 1: Your dinner was just an example. Please don't stop going to the restaurants. Because the hospitality wing is a very big money churner in India.
Ps 2: There are many more serious things than just food that we amass due to our greed. If all the gold you never used regularly was not mined at all, then you would have done your bit to save a dying economy.
Ps 3: The post script carries most of what I wanted to say, in short.
Ps 4: This post was inspired by an incidence(fictional/Real life), in Germany. Wasting food, is one the list of Offenses that can be FINED.
Ps 5: This post was also inspired by the argument I had with my mom, about a brand of Saree which she buys for the sole reason that it has a thin line of pure Gold/Silver at it's border.
Ps 6: You should really appreciate me and my sore back. It still hurts :P
Ps 7: This post might seem incomplete to you. But the fact that you are so intelligent, you just need something like this to provoke you and get you started.
Ps 8: All the "You"s and all the "I"s are the Mango People of India. Not anyone in particular. If You find any resemblance to yourselves, it is solely because of your GUILT. I am not Responsible for that :)
And Finally
PPs: Money is yours, Resources aren't. Use them wisely and help India grow!
