I encountered some resistance from my friend H who read my last post and thought i was being anti-Des. I just wanted to say that these posts about my experiences in India after being gone for 1.5 years are merely my expressions of happiness over things that have improved, disappointment over things that have deteriorated, desire over things that should change and unhappiness over things that never change. In my posts I am not trying to compare India with US as the countries are very different in every way and it would be like comparing apples with oranges. But i do express my opinion on certain things which have been copied from the West and implemented in a very inefficient way.
So i saw a movie Indiana Jones on PVR. Awesome theatre. The theatres in Delhi are very superior to the ones where i went during my stay in US. Here in Delhi, the seats are much more comfortable, sound systems are better atleast by a factor of 5X and the screens are bigger. So far so good. I also took a ride in Metro to Dwarka. Delhi metro is undoubtedly a class apart, a very well implemented network, convenient, clean. Kudos to the Delhi people who have maintained this asset neat and clean till now. I went to the Tilak Nagar Gurudwara and had an encounter with horrible traffic. There is absolutely no way pedestrians can walk on the crowded roads in Delhi ( most of them are crowded and pedestrians do walk). It took me a while to get back to the old ways of crossing roads by running and not expecting the vehicle coming to slow down or stop. People push, force their way and what not. This is something i really dont like and definitely want it to change but its like hoping against hope.
I also visited Big Bazaar and Reliance Fresh stores which are new built on the same concept as the grocery stores in the West. Unfortunately, these stores are extremely crowded and claustrophobic. The crowds push their trolleys all around and there is absolutely no space to move around. The product quality is not too good and vegetables and fruits are not too fresh. The billing takes extremely long and i saw some people just leave their stuff and leave the store after waiting for long in the billing queue. The average time per person in the billing was 10-15 mins. Huh! I have a small suggestion for these stores, they cant do much about crowds and their small areas as thats the case in any city in India but they must start an express lane for people who have lesser items so that they dont stand in the queues waiting so long for their turn.
They should also make their billing staff and computer systems more efficient to reduce the billing time per person.
Still more experiences both sweet and sour are going on...
So i saw a movie Indiana Jones on PVR. Awesome theatre. The theatres in Delhi are very superior to the ones where i went during my stay in US. Here in Delhi, the seats are much more comfortable, sound systems are better atleast by a factor of 5X and the screens are bigger. So far so good. I also took a ride in Metro to Dwarka. Delhi metro is undoubtedly a class apart, a very well implemented network, convenient, clean. Kudos to the Delhi people who have maintained this asset neat and clean till now. I went to the Tilak Nagar Gurudwara and had an encounter with horrible traffic. There is absolutely no way pedestrians can walk on the crowded roads in Delhi ( most of them are crowded and pedestrians do walk). It took me a while to get back to the old ways of crossing roads by running and not expecting the vehicle coming to slow down or stop. People push, force their way and what not. This is something i really dont like and definitely want it to change but its like hoping against hope.
I also visited Big Bazaar and Reliance Fresh stores which are new built on the same concept as the grocery stores in the West. Unfortunately, these stores are extremely crowded and claustrophobic. The crowds push their trolleys all around and there is absolutely no space to move around. The product quality is not too good and vegetables and fruits are not too fresh. The billing takes extremely long and i saw some people just leave their stuff and leave the store after waiting for long in the billing queue. The average time per person in the billing was 10-15 mins. Huh! I have a small suggestion for these stores, they cant do much about crowds and their small areas as thats the case in any city in India but they must start an express lane for people who have lesser items so that they dont stand in the queues waiting so long for their turn.
They should also make their billing staff and computer systems more efficient to reduce the billing time per person.
Still more experiences both sweet and sour are going on...
2 comments:
Your comments are certainly justified.
I would call it, on one hand, in a more general way, expressions of a "REVERSE CULTURAL SHOCK" and on the other, on the academic-platform, an expression of inertia of one's consciousness (the being).
I guess it is not offending. Blogs are written for others to learn from you and by others for you. Good or bad we learn anyway. Newton's first law (of inertia), I believe, is the most important one which is also equally applicable to our mind and consciousness other than the hard body (the mass that he talks about). And, the Darwin's hypothesis on evolution is merely an extension of Newton's first law. If you go a little more backward in history you will find our Lord Buddha in the core of these above two laws. He was the first one who discovered this law of inertia of human's 'Mann' the 'Consciousness'.
When we first do things it is done with great concentration of observance, just to be sure that what we are doing should be done in a way it is supposed be, a first phase of learning. Second phase is the recalling of the first learning experience and repeating it with a little less amount of concentration. Gradually, the third, the fourth --- the nth and slowly we get into it, it gets naturalised as we develop an inertia of it, what we call habit. This is the inertia of 'Doing'.
Same is true with 'Observing' and 'Feeling' too. First time we observe something our attention is full, our every part of the being witnesses it with hundred percent alertness because we want to absorb all of the ambience fully. This is what happens when we are first time at any new place, a new city, a hill station, the sea shore or... Next time we go there, our being does not have the same feeling of newness and if we start living there our consciousness slowly gets used to it or one can say falls prey to the inertia of living in the same ambience. This is how we develop an inertia of being in a particular city, we get habituated to it and suddenly when we change the city(abruptly), our consciousness, the being, feels the shock. A change from San Fransisco to Newyork is minimal than to N Delhi.
I guess it is merely an 'Inertial-Shock' of one's consciousness (the observing-being). Why fight unnecessarily for being 'Anti-Des' or 'Pro----'? Des is only a soft entity in our mind.
You never appeared 'Anti-Des' anytime.
Enjoy Delhi chaos and recharge yourself.
Please read "Inverse Cultural Shock" in place of "Reverse cultural Shock".
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