I just had a fantastic brain wave! Here’s what the government of India should do to make our country super duper.
- Make a pact with all the foreign MNCs doing business in India to send off all their Indian staff to their HQ for a year
- Family members go with the employees. (Special pact, performance bonus, call it whatever..!)
- Sign a special, friendly agreement with European, Australian and New Zealand governments for mass holiday making visa for Indians for a year. (Sweden and Norway would be my recommendations!)
- Once the city is emptied of its residents, the govt brings skilled labour from small towns, pulls down the entire city and re-constructs it, block-by-block.
- In a year, when all construction and the new rules are in place, the small town people go back to replicate it in their own towns.
- New urban India is ready to receive the returning NRIs who have travelled abroad. If they are returning from Sweden, they are also bringing with them the ‘follow the rule’habits; if its Canada, ‘non-confrontational’ qualities; If its French, the soft-spoken pampering way of speaking.. etc etc. To make things perfect, the NRIs now have new found respect and love for their culture (The sort that comes only when you live abroad)
- Mix all the good qualities and the wealth that the expatriates bring with them, throw them into the swanky new India, and Voila!! You have the perfect nation!
And ya... most importantly don’t forget to deploy extra armed forces on the border. Pakistan might want to create trouble out of pure destructive jealousy. (Like it always has).
And for good measure, coz we are now a smart country, watch out for China as well!
2 comments:
You've got to love idealism. I really feel for the "skilled labour of the small towns". Haven't they got a monumental job on their hands...?
Everyone from the big cities gets a holiday courtesy of the government. Whereas, they get the pleasure of rebuilding 'big city' India in a year, only to be returned to their small towns to build them too.
Just got to say, 'I wouldn't like to be "small town labour"'.
It's also nice that you believe that Europeans are somehow more refined. In my meetings with people throughout the world, I would say people from India appear culturally equal and in some ways superior. Of course, I've only really meet a small minority of educated class of India and can't really contribute beyond that perception.
A big 'Yeah!', for "I have a dream..." and India, "the perfect nation", just for the humour of it all.
You should write a book based on the idea. I'm intrigued. How would it all work out?
This has all the hallmarks of a classic. SV, you should become a writer.
You've got my support. :D.
Craig, I absolutely do NOT believe that Europeans are more refined. Where are you getting that from?
I re-read my post several times to find where the misunderstanding is coming from. Not misplaced arrogance is it? Reading things that aren't there? And saying I said it?
This post is more for the 'refurbishing' of Urban India. It has no reference whatsover to India's culture. There is absolutely no comparison to the superiority of Indian culture! I wouldn't change a thing about its culture! It's fantastic the way it is!
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