Hi,
Admit it! We love to bitch about how terrible India is. How terrible our
economy is. How we’ll never be able to clean up the gross pollution….. The
bitter fact is that we’re always waiting for someone to begin a ‘MASS MOVEMENT’
that would ‘CHANGE INDIA’S ECONOMY, CLEAN UP OUR STREETS AND ERADICATE POVERTY
– OVERNIGHT’. Wake up people! That’s never gonna happen.
Forget the MASS MOVEMENT. Why don’t we start a small, tiny, microscopic
movement? Just YOU, ME and OUR FRIENDS. Let’s get together and make four small
NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS that we WON’T break.
1. LET’S RESOLVE NOT TO BARGAIN:
Don’t we all love to bargain with our local vendor. Cut him/her down a
rupee or two? Would we ever try this at a Shopping Mall like Food World? Or at
a Raymonds/Garden showroom? They’re the ones that rip us off BIG TIME! The few
extra rupees our local vendor makes off us would go a long way to improve
his/her life. That’s where our economic growth begins.
2. LET’S RESOLVE TO PAY OUR LABOURERS A LITTLE MORE:
Pretty much the same thing. Quite often we are Paisa wise and Rupee
foolish. Paying our servant/dhobi/sewage cleaner a few rupees more will go a
long way in ensuring that the so-called ‘lower strata’ of India is given more
purchasing power. That is definitely the first step in building up our economy.
It won’t blow a hole in our pockets – trust me.
3. LET’S RESOLVE TO USE DUSTBINS:
Of course you’re gonna say that you’re already doing that. Well, think
about the many times you’ve tossed a scrap of paper onto the road murmering to
yourself, “er..no..dustbin in sight..”. Think about the times you tossed a
paper/plastic cup out of your car/a bus/a train thinking that one tiny scrap
won’t make too much of a difference. Now think about two million people doing
the same thing!! It’s a fact that we don’t have enough dustbins in public
places. But would it hurt to carry your litter to the nearest dustbin? I’ve
done it and it hasn’t hurt one bit.
4. LET’S RESOLVE NOT TO SPIT IN PUBLIC:
Sometimes I think this is India’s national sport! Paan, phlegm, just about
anything…PTHEW! Onto the street. On the wall. On the door. On the train. In the
bus… In fact I had the misfortune of finding myself behind a brand new Mercedes
at a signal. Click! The door opened and a cool looking dude popped his head out
and spat his true colours onto the road!! Man! Let’s just try and contain it
till we reach a wash basin, or find a tissue that would help us dispose of it.
I bet we as a Nation will save tons of money on whitewashing alone if this can
be done.
This isn’t a big SAVE INDIA MOVEMENT. It’s a ‘LET’S GET REAL’ movement.
Follow these four resolutions to start with, pass it on to your friends and I
bet that by the end of this year the change will be evident.
If you’re convinced, pass this on to your friends with a personal note.
You won’t get bad luck if you don’t, you won’t get a lucky phone call within 5
minutes if you do, but you’ll definitely make a change.
FORGET THE MOVEMENT. YOU ARE THE MOVEMENT.
With Regards,
--Kumaran R
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