I just chanced upon a nice story that left me with some ‘not so nice’ thoughts.
It’s nice and convenient to blink on issues that aren’t soul-stirring for us cud-chewing gaggle (I am referring the majority of urban, upwardly mobile, swanky Indians) and we prefer pondering over whether a politician being denied visa to enter Yankee land amounts to taunting our national pride as opposed to say discussing silly things like health care in India!
And, yes we refuse to acknowledge that the Indian sub-continent is almost as messed up as the African continent when it comes to HIV/AIDS. Mind you, this just pisses us off, so watch what you say. Just when we have started to bask under the limelight and funkiness of being India Inc. as a happening thing out here, and that ‘we too’ have the ‘bomb’…who dare paint us black as a country ridden with problems. There must be a credible conspiracy theory behind this. It’s ‘them’ who don’t want us to be a strong and powerful country!
Maybe AIDS ‘is’ “killing off the supposed labour force of our future, maybe it already has engulfed closer to 4% of our population, maybe 40 million people infected and dying isn’t really as bad a situation to worry about. What’s everybody’s problem if we try to skew the figures and say we have only 5+ million infected people? Even multinational companies do that and more to spruce up ther brand equity. And should this be talked about right when we are spending money on CNN advertising Incredible India! We are home to one in six people on this planet, so isn’t it just fair to have the same proportion of problems and infected people!
What’s the big deal. When push comes to shove, we’ll find a way out. Didn’t our folks skip work in their marble-floored air-conditioned offices, and volunteer for Tsunami! See.
Bummers!
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