It has been really busy week, earlier I used to work on single project at a time and now I have 2 of them. And I feel like life is a curse for me.
Few days back we celebrated our 60th Independence Day and I was thinking what is it that I really like about my country, what is it that makes me proud of being an Indian. And here it goes.
Road Names – all of the names of our roads make sense, we had so many great freedom fighters and most of our roads are named after them and not something like “Frying Pan Road”.
Childhood – I still sometimes visit those streets where I grew up and that house where I fell so many times to stand up.
Weddings – I like the Indian weddings. I have seen American Wedding (not the movie) in few movies and I am really scared of it because I feel it is so formal. And weddings in my country are so great, our big families and friends circle which sometimes constitute 300 people make it so interesting. We go out on streets dancing, singing and firing crackers, without really caring about traffic jam.
Few days back we celebrated our 60th Independence Day and I was thinking what is it that I really like about my country, what is it that makes me proud of being an Indian. And here it goes.
Road Names – all of the names of our roads make sense, we had so many great freedom fighters and most of our roads are named after them and not something like “Frying Pan Road”.
Childhood – I still sometimes visit those streets where I grew up and that house where I fell so many times to stand up.
Weddings – I like the Indian weddings. I have seen American Wedding (not the movie) in few movies and I am really scared of it because I feel it is so formal. And weddings in my country are so great, our big families and friends circle which sometimes constitute 300 people make it so interesting. We go out on streets dancing, singing and firing crackers, without really caring about traffic jam.
Food – I really miss the spicy Indian food when I go out of country. Therefore, I learned on my own, how to cook some of my favorite dishes. I remember one of my American coworker was in India for quite long time and he loved the Indian food so much that he took classes to learn all the stuff. I hope he is good time cooking Indian food in LA.
Workarounds – in local language we call it as ‘jugaad’ and it really rocks. It actually is workaround for everything. Since most Indians are middle-class families they have to acclimate in whatever they have. From childhood we learn how to adjust, how to spend only on necessary items. And that gives birth to ‘jugaad’, the cheap alternative or workaround and many innovations have happened because of this. I remember a village girl invented a washing machine that runs without electricity. She attached the machine to cycle and peddling the cycle runs the machine, a ‘juggad’. AMAZING!!!
Secular – the advantage of being a secular country is that you get to holiday on festival of each religion whether it is Christmas, Id or our own Diwali. And it is fun too.
Culture – one of the things I really like is that we treat our guests as God. We let our guests sleep on our bed and we ourselves sleep on ground. (No that’s not a rule, but when we run out of space).
Lastly, I don’t have to really care about people loosing jobs in Europe or somewhere else.
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