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--- Sunith Velho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sunith responds:
> Actually what is truly confounding is how Indians
> are obsessed with personal
> and domestic hygiene, and once out of their house
> doors all sense of hygiene
> is lost.
> The traffic situation is completely beyond my
> understanding. We have the
> highest accident rate in the world and everyone
> knows too many people die in
> traffic accidents here, but no one cares. I know of
> at least 5 class mates
> and many more family members and acquaintances who
> have died in vehicle
> accidents (an abnormal figure anywhere else in the
> world), yet adherence to
> traffic rules has only gotten worse. Witness the
> massive protests against
> wearing of helmets and compulsory seat belts. Goans
> have proven that wearing
> helmets causes hair loss, and hair loss is one of
> the prime causes of motor
> cycle related deaths the world over! I remember when
> the protests against
> helmets were going on, my company driver told me of
> an incident in his
> village where a dumper truck(weighing over 10 tons)
> ran over a fellow
> villager, and that the helmet did nothing to save
> his life. So obviously
> helmets were useless and just another money making
> ploy.
>
> Maybe it has something to do with the Indian brain
> and the sound of shutting
> of doors! Once a door is shut(car or house) reason
> and intelligence
> disappear.
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Nasci adds:
Mario G. in response to you (Sunith), said:
"When you return from England a few years from now you
will find India seemingly dirtier and more chaotic
than you left it, not because India has changed, but
because you will have, and your senses will have
become acclimatised to the relative cleanliness and
civic order of your current environment." (end)
Nasci feels and it does look like, you have already
returned from UK, at least in mind and spirit;
considering that you have now accepted some of the
'Inconvenient Truth' and are no longer absurdly
defensive about some of Goan/Indian failures.
You are now capable of accepting facts as facts,
however 'dirty and unpalatable' these may be!
You are now truly enlightened! Just like Mohandas
Gandhi did when he left his chappals and his hopeless
Gujerat and went to study in England and became
enlightened! Do you know that this Gandhi found it
tough to comprehend that one can do his daily
excretions in a clean and tiled toilet rather than
under the banyan tree!
Wish you all the best, Sunith! Abundance of 'Coal in
Newcastle'?
Nasci Caldeira
Melbourne, Down under.
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