Indian Mentality

Indian mentality! Let me tell why this topic came at first in my mind.Well I saw the Marathi movie ’Harishchandrachi Factory’yesterday. Well and I must say kudos to Paresh mokashi for making such a excellent movie on such a excellent concept and that too on such a inspiring personality.Well I must say kudos to Dhundiraj Govind Phalke,because inspite of facing enormous opposition from all his friends and family, the man successfully made the first Indian film and singlehandedly was successful in establishing the Indian film industry. Whatever success and glamour Indian film industry is attracting today would have no longer took place had it not been because of this man. Its only because of the patriotic views of him and her wife that Indian film industry or the so called Bollywood is today.
But the question remains. Why talk about the Indian mentality. Well the reason for it is simple. I was able to witness the ever cynical Indian mentality through this film. We Indians always had or still have the tendency to follow anything blindly. Anything out of the book is either a sin here or you have to be out of your mind to think about it. We hate to ask ‘Why’ or even ‘Why not’. Think about it. Whenever we think or hear of great Indian intelligence or our outperformance with the western world in terms of knowledge and intellectuality comes , why we don’t ask ourselves a question. What innovations have we created to term ourselves with extra intelligence? What innovative ideas have been born here in the last say 60 years? Why multinationals like a Toyota or Google are not born here? Why we always follow the crowd instead of taking the lead? Why? Well to many questions but answer remains the same. Indian Mentality!
Yes, Indian Mentality! We like to follow the rest of the world instead of being in the lead. We like to copy stuffs instead of presenting our own innovative ideas. Our Indian mentality has always been the root cause behind this. Innovative ideas have no place in our country. This phenomenon has always been the same. Be it in the earlier 16th,17th,18th centuries or be it now, the situation has not changed. This is why we hardly see any reforms or innovations happening here. This further with lack of patriotism in our youth has brought the trend of brain drain. We have been seeing more than 300000 of our skilled people living abroad. Why? Well they would like to work for a international firm elsewhere but would not work for it here in India. Instead of contributing it in here. How many of our engineers from the IITs stay back in our country and contribute in our research institutes. Why don’t they contribute with their intelluctuality in here. Well its because of our Indian mentality.
That’s why we see so many religions and culture here. We have been used too believing blindly any customs and rituals without asking the reason for it. So any new innovative ideas had been opposed here. Be it the introduction of Railways, Telegraph, Cameras etc. Let me give you a example. Earlier even removing a moustache was considered a sin, saying this may lead to death of their father. Nobody even asked the question why? You may say this is not the case today. But then I have 'n' number of examples where we have been following a practice blindly for the sake of following it. Let me start by this. In our Indian marriages brides have to change their name after marriage. The reason tradition. Logic none. We prick the ears of our new born. Reason tradition. Logic none. We feed the crows after event of death in our family. Reason tradition. Logic none. This are few among list of hundreds of examples which proves that our Indian mentality disallows us of asking the question ‘Why’. We have been used to following things blindly. It’s the sole reason why we have so many babas here. The babas who promise of giving a successful life and we people follow them. This is the sole reason. Our Indian mentality. Nothing else….

Just Think!

A Statement, this is what it takes to create a controversy in India.The situation manifolds when you arrive in Bombay.Ooops sorry!What did i say 'Bombay'?Oh God! Great Crime! Let me rectify it. 'Mumbai'.Now when i said 'Bombay' did the situation change in here?Do the problem got solved.Problems which Mumbai has in abundance.You name it and Mumbai has it.Traffic,Electricity,Water scarcity,Pollution,Sanitation,Poverty,Crime and the list goes on.But what our politicians are concerned about.What name do we call our city.What language do we speak here.Now is it their fault?Are they responsible for the situation here.The answer is straight No! How many times have we tried to think that whatever this group is doing is it Right or Wrong?.The answer would be none.This has aggravated the problem.Not only that some have started supporting it.Divisive politics cannot survive in a successful democracy.And if it does,the democracy no longer remains successful.

What people have to understand is that this genre of politics may sound entertaining but is no solution to your problems.They are using their emotions to earn their living.India's success had been only because of its tendency to live together irrespective of its diversity.This so called problem never surpassed earlier,Why is it now?Just think!