tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9237907.post112283451500680523..comments2024-03-06T00:30:08.915-08:00Comments on Secular-Right India: Cheapening Lives To Reduce Their CostUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9237907.post-1122908420256773902005-08-01T08:00:00.000-07:002005-08-01T08:00:00.000-07:00Well said Sir. On the same subject,I remember a cl...Well said Sir. On the same subject,I remember a classic exposition by India Today's Swapan Das Gupta titled 'The Ugly Indian'; an essay where he surgically teared the Indian middle class mindset.<BR/>The cover of that edition of India Today showed a (seemingly) educated middle aged gentleman peeing in a public place.<BR/>Point in case of how we Indians have taken the nation so much for granted. This attitude is somewhat related to what you wrote. The 'taking for granted' mentality has now been deeply implanted into our psyche. We have simply assumed that whenever rains fall there would be a 'few' casualties. We have assumed that Government is inept so no point in bothering anyways. We have now assumed that it does not matter that bombay will have a 'few' bomb blasts here and there, a 'few' riots here an there and a 'few' deaths due to rains here and there. Its now all taken in 'stride'. We have assumed that every year hundreds of our youth (barely in their 20s) will die in Kashmir for having to put up with follies commited by someone in the past (read Nehru). We have now taken for granted that Bihar will always be ruled by Laloo and his family whether he's voted for that or not. We have simply taken this for granted that Underworld will be a part of our Bollywood, will mint money at our costs and than attempt to destroy our own institutes,... so on and so forth..<BR/><BR/>I think somewhere along the way..in last 50 years of our so called freedom.. we have somehow lost the ability to question... to ask.. to react..kautilyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04196450087427067882noreply@blogger.com