Risky Reading !!

This is the third time that I have taken up space on blogspot and it seems third time lucky as I have reached a landmark number of postings till date. But the saturation has arrived, I have been refraining from postings off-late because of two major reasons.

• hattrick.org : An engrossing website for football lovers and ofcourse meant for people alloted with abundance of time in front of a computer with apparently no other work !
  
• Secondly for philosophizing (if a word like that exists). There is something special about a blog that makes you want to start writing about philosophy and patriotism and what not as soon as you create a new blog.
  

Till today I had successfully avoided being tempted in the lures of writing lengthy and boring philosophies but not anymore. I was a bit impressed by this article. I have known this guy for 3 years and I must admit that this article was a bit of a pleasant surprise.

So let us get back to the main point. I really wont press onto the topic that was dealt in that article but just pen down an incident that changed my outlook about india to a great extent.
It was during my second year, rock music was starting to create its impact on my life. A large group of students from my college were headed towards Delhi for our annual sports meet. And among the Volleyball contingent was this guy called Robert (transfer student from Deutchland) . I went ahead and started a chat with him about Du hast Mich, the song that had been creating ripples in the amateur rock arena those days. It was a pretty stupid idea in retrospect because the guy clearly hated rock music and was asked about the question barzillion times before. But anyways pretty soon we had this big group chatting about various things.

And then Saand, our hero, interjected with a brilliant question, What was the most affecting thing that he had noticed in India ? Well I agree that it was a lame question and one couldnt poosibly be too excited about the answer , as I was sure it would be something so common for us that it wouldnt matter very much (like people dont drink too much beer here etc.). What made the question brilliant was ofcourse the unexpected answer.

Robert said he had never seen so poor people anywhere in this world and the worst part was that common people had started accepting this great divide. So as we move ahead with our service industry and our nuclear programme etc the other side of India remains so much out of focus.

Infact that was when I realized that we have definately learnt the art of totally giving a blind eye to the stark and disgusting reality in our country called poverty. And I would just like to say that we ought to open our eyes a little bit !!