"Indians are definitely not confused and have solid set of values." This is totally false. We are definetly confused lot and if compare wil th other countries which have recently come up like china,singapore,malasia,Indonesia etc. we stand nowhere. The present youth is directionless and their only aim is job,salary,booz,girl and so on.
Indian's enjoy watching the game, the country has some world class players, they idolize some of them, how's that different from basketball in the US or Football in Brazil? ...i fully agree, actually this is what i tell to people who say that CRICKET is wathced and played in very few countries and its a boring game. I truely agree what has been said in this article.
Re: very well said
by Unnikrishnan rozario on Aug 22, 2012 02:47 PM
Indian's enjoy watching the game, the country has some world class players. These words itself shows the standards we have set for ourselves...Nothing more to say..
@ Nupur Bang: I find some of the points in your article agreeable, like: "We want to take care of our parents in their old age and protect our children, always."
Re: Rediff Moderator, Please try harder
by Argumentative Indian on Aug 22, 2012 01:06 PM
However, I find one point disagreeable: "We want to bring home a boy or a girl whom our parents would approve of."
Re: Re: Rediff Moderator, Please try harder
by Argumentative Indian on Aug 22, 2012 01:08 PM
I always wanted to and DID indeed bring home a girl "I" would love to spend MY life with. Sure, my parents approval was very important, but their disapproval would not and frankly DID not make me ditch the woman that I loved.
I am aware of the "great debt" carried by all of us for the sacrfices & hard work done by our parents for our upbringing. There are many ways to pay off this debt, chiefly by looking after / providing for our parents themselves and by showering our love and EFFORTS on our children.
Re: Re: Re: Rediff Moderator, Please try harder
by Argumentative Indian on Aug 22, 2012 01:09 PM
I live in a different city from my parents, but talk with them for at least 30 minutes EVERY DAY, wherever I'm in India, however busy I am, whatever I am doing, regardless.
I personally drop my daughter to school EVERY day that I am in town, know her friends, take her to sports classes, read her bed time stories, play chess with her et al.
BUT, I expect, NOTHING from her; definitely NOT that she will bring home a ... of MY approval.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Rediff Moderator, Please try harder
by Perfect stranger on Aug 22, 2012 02:50 PM
few things parents object..who would want sunny leone as daughter ?
As always, we think the problem is elsewhere ... politicians are the first choice for finger-pointing! Where do politicians come from? Are they aliens? Or are they from another country? They are just like us - Indians!
Every person is just another shade of the "bad politician". How many times do we try to bribe to traffic policeman to get away from a situation? Yet, we call the policeman bad!
The society (and that includes me) needs to do something for nation-building. But we are too busy building our bank balance. You can see the same thing even at home ... kids whose parents are not at home to imbibe values, will eventually fall into wrong ways. This country is like our baby; we need to spend time on our country to bring it up. If we don't, no one else will!
Going home for Diwali or marrying the girl / boy of your parents' choice is not "values"!
Running away to the US is not the solution. (How many times do you run away from your familiy eve if you don't like them?) We have to sit down with everyone and resolve issues.
What we need is a strong moral-based education system that teaches young boys and girls to work for nation-building and not nation -bashing. Then we will have fewer Chetan Bhagats!
Re: Wrong!
by rahul verma on Aug 22, 2012 01:12 PM
What Mr.Bang said is absolutly right, and even what u said make a sense, we need to develop our yougsters /our kids in such a manner so that they will feel proud for country and will work for its wellbeing. Our job is to develop our coming genaration..give them quality education, give moral values , make them high class official.
Re: Wrong!
by Mallikarjuna YC on Aug 22, 2012 02:22 PM
what you say is makes lot of sense. We need to be responsible to our state of affairs. it is not good to blame outside people or state. Instead we need to make introspection and do our bit to improve the state of affairs.
Re: ??
by Argumentative Indian on Aug 22, 2012 01:07 PM
I always wanted to and DID indeed bring home a girl "I" would love to spend MY life with. Sure, my parents approval was very important, but their disapproval would not and frankly DID not make me ditch the woman that I loved.
Re: ??
by Argumentative Indian on Aug 22, 2012 01:08 PM
I always wanted to and DID indeed bring home a girl "I" would love to spend MY life with. Sure, my parents approval was very important, but their disapproval would not and frankly DID not make me ditch the woman that I loved.
I am aware of the "great debt" carried by all of us for the sacrfices & hard work done by our parents for our upbringing. There are many ways to pay off this debt, chiefly by looking after / providing for our parents themselves and by showering our love and EFFORTS on our children.
Re: ??
by Argumentative Indian on Aug 22, 2012 01:09 PM
I live in a different city from my parents, but talk with them for at least 30 minutes EVERY DAY, wherever I'm in India, however busy I am, whatever I am doing, regardless.
I personally drop my daughter to school EVERY day that I am in town, know her friends, take her to sports classes, read her bed time stories, play chess with her et al.
BUT, I expect, NOTHING from her; definitely NOT that she will bring home a ... of MY approval.
Re: ??
by Argumentative Indian on Aug 22, 2012 12:54 PM
However, I find one point disagreeable: "We want to bring home a boy or a girl whom our parents would approve of."
Re: Re: Re: Re: ??
by Argumentative Indian on Aug 22, 2012 12:57 PM
"I" would love to spend MY life with. Sure, my parents approval was very important, but their disapproval would not and frankly DID not make me ditch the woman that I loved.
I am aware of the "great debt" carried by all of us for the sacrfices & hard work done by our parents for our upbringing. There are many ways to pay off this debt, chiefly by looking after / providing for our parents themselves and by showering our love and EFFORTS on our children.
[I live in a different city from my parents, but talk with them for at least 30 minutes EVERY DAY, wherever I'm in India, however busy I am, whatever I am doing, regardless.
I personally drop my daughter to school EVERY day that I am in town, know her friends, take her to sports classes, read her bed time stories, play chess with her et al.
BUT, I expect, NOTHING from her; definitely NOT that she will bring home a boy (or girl), of MY approval.
It's her life to live as she pleases.
I personally feel parents who need their children to live their lives according to the parents' approval should invest in puppies early on, rather than produce homo sapiens.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: ??
by Argumentative Indian on Aug 22, 2012 01:00 PM
There are many ways to pay off this debt, chiefly by looking after / providing for our parents themselves and by showering our love and EFFORTS on our children.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: ??
by Argumentative Indian on Aug 22, 2012 01:00 PM
[I live in a different city from my parents, but talk with them for at least 30 minutes EVERY DAY, wherever I'm in India, however busy I am, whatever I am doing, regardless.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: ??
by Argumentative Indian on Aug 22, 2012 01:01 PM
I personally drop my daughter to school EVERY day that I am in town, know her friends, take her to sports classes, read her bed time stories, play chess with her et al.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: ??
by Argumentative Indian on Aug 22, 2012 12:58 PM
Sure, my parents approval was very important, but their disapproval would not and frankly DID not make me ditch the woman that I loved.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: ??
by Argumentative Indian on Aug 22, 2012 12:59 PM
I am aware of the "great debt" carried by all of us for the sacrfices & hard work done by our parents for our upbringing.
I havent read the book, but whats wrong in comparing cricket and opium, definitely its cricket thats damaging our sporting arena, which other sport apart from cricket can we be proud of? A billion strong population was so happy with their olympic performance in 2012, can we dare compare ourself with China in any respect. We are confused people as rightly said, neither we are inventors nor innovators, we are sellers and buyers, our brain power can only be exported to developed countries, we cant create an atmosphere in our country where these brain powers can be utilized.
I haven't read this particular book, however I have read a few other books by the author. Naturally I shouldn't comment on this book . But having gone thru the comments of Mr. Nupur I have a few pts. Firstly Indians DO have Values,thats why probably the systems are still wking. secondly other books of the author do not evoke any literary exuberance. Language is plain and simple more importantly there is lack of depth when I compare with works by Jhumpa Lahiri and Amitava Ghosh. But whats more important is connectivity, which the author has well established with the Indian Youth. I hope author will encash that to the benefit of the society. If thats achieved who cares my comments .Cheer up Mr, Bhagat U R doing a wonderful job.
