Hi friends,
I have just started exploring the shores away from Hind Mahasagar and have learnt to see a complete different India of the N R I 's. I have met some of them, and noticed few things, I am not here to conclude anything yet, also my observations may be wrong, but still, I am presenting some of the first impressions I got after spending sometime out of India.
The NRIs represent an India that they had left when they came here, it would be not so nice to say they don't know India at all or get disconnected from the mainstream of India, but still they lack that up to date knowledge of what is actually happening in India and what India is heading towards these days.
I must affirm one more time that I am not her to criticize anyone or even pass a judgement, these are only my findings. The disconnect of NRIs from the contemporary waves of Indian shores or the new age India happens because of some obvious reasons:
> we seem to not to care about what's happening around us once we leave india, remember those parliament sessions near Paan ki dukaans, we decide whether the government is gonna stay and also advice Sachin how to tackle the out side off stump deliveries... this just doesnt happen among NRIs
> Unlike the recent times when we have every bit of information available over the internet, we still dont seem to consume the news, views and some good articles about the events take place in India, like the stock market rise and fall, politics, business etc.
>We do call our loved ones every week at least once or more than once because of falling rates of calling cards, all we talk is how's life and what you did this week and what is coming up, marriage, job etc, we never ask what's up with our 'Des', true?
>Let me share some of my own discussions with my friends who have been here since couple of years, while I was narrating what is the progress being made and the recent development in infrastructure, IT, telecom and business over all around India in neo-developed cities like Gurgao, Pune, Ahmedabad, Bangalore..., they seem to have surprise a lot more than I actually expected.
That is only one of the aspects of knowledge about events in India, there is lot more that I wish to tell them, like how the Indian mindset is changing, be it career development, marriages, love, consumerism and society as a whole, but for that now I must find some right channel to get up to date with the new age India myself as I am away from Des too and am very likely to become 'just another NRI' !!!
that's it for now, I shall be putting some more finding and things that can be discussed about in the same matter, but this seems to be a long enough article to put a full stop now.
Monday, June 23, 2008
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