We all keep talking about india should have this, india should have that, this should be done in india, that should be done . and to add to all that we all Talk about india going to be developed country (please mind that being developed don’t only means enough roads,enough power,enough industry,like Infosys success don’t makes it, its about overall quality of life!)
I talk about developed society! When are we going to stop adoring green pastures be like the developed society. We will, we will but How soon? Well this is something open for discussion.
Recently we had discussion about famous 7 habits of Highly effective people, and reading about them my thoughts went back again to our country,
Can these habits listed by Dr Covey help us do some introspection?
I think they can, and they can do it a lot.
Dr Covey talks about being proactive. Just look around ourselves folks, how much we really care about being proactive?
I don’t have to be a good analyst to say, that WE simply Don’t care!! Be it about small part of level of our throwing waste in open or habit of spitting, misuse and mismanagement of public utilities or our cities expansions, or for that matter in our roads, look anywhere.. We can almost spot it anywhere. (Of course there are glowing exceptions like the Metro!)
But yes Indians are very good and very very proactive in one respect that is in planning the futures of their kin and kith. It will be hard to find any Indian house hold which doesn’t have a future plan for some kind of security in any form they can. It is of course very good feature, but what happens when the same kind of proactivity is asked by nation.
When we live in our country, it seems to us to be very difficult discipline if there is ban on spitting or littering, but when we go to Singapore or some western country, we follow the rules! Don’t we?
Do we lack some gut feeling for our country? I don’t know, but I am searching for answers.
