the problem with India is that people are comfortable living below their moral ideals. that they comfortably look into the mirrors everyday without looking themselves in the eyes. its not just the politicians, because they are just mirrors reflecting the general people of the country. in fact they are the general people of the country. the problem is them just as it is us, you me, our parents, all of us. and its an old problem. and its hard to accept, because there has always been denial against it. and for those some who admit to it, there's been hope against it...
Mulk Raj Anand in 1975 quoted a judge regarding an inquiry into the riots in Bhiwandi, Jalgaon, and Mahad (Maharashtra)
"It was a lonely, arduous and weary journey through a land of hatred and violence, of prejudice and perjury. The encounters on the way were with men without compassion, lusting for the blood of their fellowmen, with politicians who traficked in communal hatred and religious fanaticism, with local leaders who sought power by sowing disunity and bitterness, with police officers and policemen who were unworthy of their uniform, with investigating officers without honour, and without scruples, with men committed to falsehood and wedded to fraud and with dealers in mayhem and murder."
and then MRA comments on above quote with "That even one man speaks like this, encourages one to hope."
the problem with India is that people are wedded either to falsehood, or to hope. too many of us survive on threadbare hope, hope without action, threadbare enough to be unable to support so many of us..
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It's a cultural thing more than geographic, and subject to change.
For example, in New York, people often walk even when they are "not supposed to"; the same does not happen in other American cities.
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