Saturday, 7 February 2015

THE LOGICAL INDIAN

"These metro coaches, for all their 'state of the art' technology, don’t have sick bags! Maybe I should recommend one!" So said a friend of mine while we were passing a metro journey together. It got me thinking; maybe sick bags should be included. But will anything detachable ever stay in its allotted place?

If sick bags were to be installed, let's consider for a moment that it were, they would all be gone before they can be declared as a grand installment! Surely, where 'The Logical Indian’ is concerned, the count of people getting sick could increase in number just as all other pleasing things have?

Well, we do seem to have a tendency to grow -- even if simply in numbers. This is our way of Indianizing things; our culture of imbibing the values of our brethren! If there were five people breaking traffic rules and traversing in the wrong direction on a one-way road, now there are a hundred; if there was one person peeing on a wall, now there are twenty! We definitely have a 'thing' for picking trends! Most forward looking people we are!


But we don't blindly follow everything! Of course, not! That would be undemocratic. We always protest against a strict rule passed, whether the law or at home or at workplaces and institutions. No, it would not do to conform to them, whatever good they're intended for. Any rule curtails freedom of expression! So it is undemocratic to have rules! Being civil and well mannered curtails freedom! We are a free people! No, Sir! We will do as we please and follow whom we please and say what we please. After so many years of independence, have we not this right?

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