Independent India of Sixty Years

India is now sixty years old after getting freedom. We were totally suppressed nearly for 1000 years staring from Mughal rulers to British. India was totally scared of external countries and had adopted popular swadeshi concept and encouraged local people to manufacture goods, grow crops and imposed heavy taxation for those who imported goods from foreign countries.
This concept worked well till 70s and people were self sufficient. But we lacked quality good only because of technological backwardness.
But in eighties License Raj started and people favoring government were only given licenses startup any production unit or to expand the same. This move was totally ridiculous and it cut down competition and monopoly began and ultimately common man suffered to the max.
In early nineties India was totally bankrupt all money was with politicians, bureaucrats, government servants and others. India was not at all growing and this forced the FM of India in 1992 to open up the market and allow foreign investments in India. This changed India significantly and today in 2007 India has indeed become emerging market and also got the status as transforming country.
I feel still India needs to improve a lot and grow more to become developed nation.

There is something special to India which I would like to list alphabetically

A – Auto, Only in India and some parts of Asia pacific region you will find this 3 wheeler. These drivers actually come from different planet and they don't know what are the traffic rules.
A also refers to astrology, every citizen on India strongly believe in astrology, all ceremonies and festivals are conducted based upon astrological inputs.

B – Bollywood, Most of Indians cannot leave without Bollywood. Still for Indians the only pastime is to watch Bollywood movies.
B also means Black Money, Indians have maximum black money. We generate it every day, I do not know, when can we get out of this?.

C – Cricket, Cricket is only sport which every Indian love to watch, in spite all those match fixing , BBCI scandalous. People love to bet on players, match and many things. Cricket betting itself is Multi Million industry.
C also means Corruption, Common man of india is fully corrupt due to environment, and India has lost the trust, loyalty and honesty which was there before independence. Many people indulge in politicking, back stabbing, minority appeasement and many more.

D – Dowry, No matter even if India becomes developed nation, you are sure to see dowry deaths happening in India. How much ever a person is educated in India, he loves to take dowry. More the educated you are more the dowry money you take. Now people are offered or demand for various stuff like cash, car, job, sites, house and many more.

E – Extravagance – Indians by nature love extravagance, be it festival, marriage ceremony, politician party meeting or any event we make it so extravagant, that whole purpose of the actual event gets defeated.

F – Fireworks – Indians love fire works, be it any ceremony, starting from birth (male kid) to death, you name it. We have fire works ready. You are sure to see fireworks if India wins a cricket match or when a political party wins the election.

G – Gold – Indians love gold. In most of festivals people buy gold. India’s economy and rupee value is based upon gold which we hold.
G also means God, Indians worship gods so much, which is beyond once imagination. You will find gods every where in India. Be it middle of National Highway! Or in mids of huge slums or under High Tension Line you will see various gods.

H – Honking, Every Indian is taught to honk first before learning any vehicle. Even people demand drivers to Honk. Until and unless you don’t honk people don’t budge. You will find various kinds of honking patters in India like sounds to Dogs, Cats screaming etc. Some drivers also over do it they simply honk when entire traffic is at stand still or even when they are driving on a clear road.
H also means Head Shake; All Indians have standard protocol of shaking his head side ways when ever he wants to acknowledge something. This creates confusion when ever indians interact with westerners.

IT – IT, after the globalization India is mainly recognized only because of IT and IT has created a good brand image across the globe.
I also mean IIT, India is also recognized for it intelligence in foreign land mainly due to IITians who have migrated from India.

J - Jinx, Many Indians believe in superstition and have Jinx. There are many superstitions like do not go forward if a black cat crosses you. Three people must not go for any good work. Do not go for good work during Rhavu Kala etc.

K – Kashmir, even after 60 years of independence, India is still suffering with Kashmir issue. I feel we continue to do so because there is no political will to solve this.

L – Littering, Indians love to litter all public places. If you go inside any house of India you will be surprised to see their homes so clean, but the same person when he come out then loves to litter all public places.
L also means Languages, Indians have maximum number of languages when compared to any other country. Along with this when have many versions of languages like Hinglish, Tamlish, Telaglish and many more.

M – Money, Every Indian loves money. Indians take lot of decision based on money constraints. I do not deny other people in world also give more importance to money. But Indians give totally a different angle to it and more often you see them overdoing it.

N – Noise, Every Indian believes Noise created by him/her is fun & music. We do not care about others at all. Be in any ceremony, we love to run loudspeakers till midnight without thinking about others.

O – Over-Loading, Indians try to overload everything staring from bi-cycle, scooter, car, bus, lorry, class rooms, Cinema halls, Parks, malls etc. we love to overload. This we call it as efficient usage.

P – Plagiarism, Every Indian likes do copy and paste and do not acknowledge that he has copied. Even in IT, People copy codes freely, most of them have pirated softwares and MP3.
We give a dam to copyrights. Most of PhDs of India have written their thesis purely by copying from others.
P also means Political Parties, Indians have maximum number of political parties and we are creating more and more year after year.
P also means Population, India has maximum number of people; I think we have surpassed china also. If not we will do soon.

Q – Queue, if any body out there is thinking of instant service, forget about it in India. You simply cannot get it we have so many people out their, invariably for any simple service one has to undergo huge queues.
Q also means Quantity, Indians love quantity over quality. Once my friend did not agree to come to English movie just because it was for one and half hours, where as any Indian movie was for three hours.

R – Rumor, Indians love to create rumors, Indians creates rumors on fly like
1) Idol of Lord Ganesha can drink milk!!,
2) Hoax bomb calls in malls and companies etc.

S – Serials, Indian men & women love T.V serials so much that they can sacrifice any thing for it. Most of the serials are based on same theme and every serials run for years.

T - Tiffin Boxes, Only in India you will find Tiffin box business. Mumbai dabba-whalas just carry boxes from home to office and back. They do it so efficiently, that they have attained six sigma level and even Harvard business school have studied this process.

U – Unpunctual, Indian are most unpunctual in the world, nobody out there follow any timings. Going late to any function, party is considered pride. All trains, bus, aircrafts land late than scheduled.

V – Veda, Main foundation of Hindu religion stands on Vedas. Every aspects of our culture, caste, religion is based on Vedas
V also means Vastu, Vastu is the old method of India which give rules to construct buildings and houses. I heard recently in local news channel that WTC (World Trade Center, USA) builders have consulted Vastu experts for suggestion.

W – Wedding, Indian weddings are full of extravagance, some wedding have more than 100 dishes served and some wedding go on for weeks. Most extravagance wedding in India, which I can think is the wedding of Jailalitha’s adopted son’s marriage.

X – Xerox, Every nook and corner of Indian cities are filled with Xerox center. People put board as Xerox center even though they have Copiers manufactured by other company (Xerox is the brand name of Xerox Corporation.)

Y – Yoga, Yoga is type of mediation, relaxation technique which keeps ones body fit and active. It was found in india and is very popular among foreigners. Lot of flavors of Yoga has come out now a days like Siddi Samadhi Yoga, Art of Leaving etc.

Z – Zero tolerance, Indians have least tolerance for anything. First thing we do is shout, harass, molest and assault. Lot of conflicts which happen on streets of india will be for simple or for silly reason.