Whenever I call home and talk to my family and friends and try to preach them, they would just tell me - You don't know nothing about India maan, you live in America. What do you think Hyderabad is the same? you visited two years ago, there is a earth-sky difference from then and now. You Don't know Nothing.
Well my response is always been - Come on don't give me that crap. I know enough about India and Indian people, I lived in India for 23 years you know and have you heard about Internet, I would know things before they happen you know.
This might have happened to lot of you guys and gals out there. The last time this happened I decided to take more interest in the news from India, which I have gone away from.
My belief is a country will go as far as the people of that country. I quote Mahakavi ("The Great Poet") Gurujada Appa Rao "Deshamante Matti Kadoi Deshamante Manushuloi" meaning - A country is made up of people not soil. It is considered the universal truth. I have spent the last seven years in USA, but never stopped talking to my family and friends in India during that time. I hear the same things I heard back when I was in India. Though I cannot base the whole country's progress on the progress of these few I have always interacted with, I can certainly see why the progress of these few have been limited. India has certainly progressed during this period, maybe faster than some people might have thought, but not fast enough, not for me. Why do I think such is the case, its simple, India has become a larger free market during this time. Any free market depending on the size of the freeness, will progress proportional to that.
Anyway, economics aside I will go back to taking more interest in the Motherland, I decided to watch the new acclaimed movie "Chak de India". I could not watch more than first five minutes. The movie starts with a hockey match between India and Pakistan. Watching the speed at which the hero and other so called athletes were playing I could not take it anymore. It is a complete disrespect to the sport itself, because in reality the intensity on the ground will be so high that the athletes in such a match will have additional testosterone going. This first five minutes of the movie shows you the progress Indian cinema has made. I don't think the hockey players around the world would appreciate it for its depiction of a real life hockey game. of course they cannot replicate the reality but they can certainly reduce the gap. Well it resembled more to a street hockey game.
I would definitely love to see India progress at the current rate or at higher rate in the future. Once again that depends on how fast we Indians progress.
Well my response is always been - Come on don't give me that crap. I know enough about India and Indian people, I lived in India for 23 years you know and have you heard about Internet, I would know things before they happen you know.
This might have happened to lot of you guys and gals out there. The last time this happened I decided to take more interest in the news from India, which I have gone away from.
My belief is a country will go as far as the people of that country. I quote Mahakavi ("The Great Poet") Gurujada Appa Rao "Deshamante Matti Kadoi Deshamante Manushuloi" meaning - A country is made up of people not soil. It is considered the universal truth. I have spent the last seven years in USA, but never stopped talking to my family and friends in India during that time. I hear the same things I heard back when I was in India. Though I cannot base the whole country's progress on the progress of these few I have always interacted with, I can certainly see why the progress of these few have been limited. India has certainly progressed during this period, maybe faster than some people might have thought, but not fast enough, not for me. Why do I think such is the case, its simple, India has become a larger free market during this time. Any free market depending on the size of the freeness, will progress proportional to that.
Anyway, economics aside I will go back to taking more interest in the Motherland, I decided to watch the new acclaimed movie "Chak de India". I could not watch more than first five minutes. The movie starts with a hockey match between India and Pakistan. Watching the speed at which the hero and other so called athletes were playing I could not take it anymore. It is a complete disrespect to the sport itself, because in reality the intensity on the ground will be so high that the athletes in such a match will have additional testosterone going. This first five minutes of the movie shows you the progress Indian cinema has made. I don't think the hockey players around the world would appreciate it for its depiction of a real life hockey game. of course they cannot replicate the reality but they can certainly reduce the gap. Well it resembled more to a street hockey game.
I would definitely love to see India progress at the current rate or at higher rate in the future. Once again that depends on how fast we Indians progress.
1 comment:
well I did watch chak de India later and I think its a good movie, its not perfect but now a days good movies are hard to come by from India.
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