Aug 11, 2009

BOTOX Please!!!! India needs a facelift

As India gears up to celebrate the 62nd Independence Day, here are my wishes......."Happy Independence Day World! Yes, I know I said “world”. Well!!!! Why shouldn’t I????? I am blessed to be born in a certain country named “India”. Ohh yes!!! With all major countries finding a handsome chunk of Indian community present in their living rooms we certainly aren’t going unnoticed. Hence, “Happy Independence Day World.” Yeah!!!! The birth of my country has not only been a boon to us but a boon to the entire universe. So, I would like to wish the entire world.


Talking about my country I need not tell you that we are making waves all over the globe. Last two decades have seen the young India take over and cause ripples all over, be it sports, business, beauty pageants, entertainment, science, technology, education, outsourcing etc etc etc etc. India has made a serious mark of it’s presence on the global map. We have 2nd highest billionaires after US in top 20 (post recession figure). We are the hottest outsourcing destination. We are the one who have taken the sports world by storm with invention of IPL. We are the one to bring in the cheapest car in market. We are the one who have seen the “H1N1” google search top the charts in recent times. To be frank I am not proud of the last point but then the point to emphasize here is that we are not the first to be affected, but it created heck lot of changes in the world’s most dominant search engine.


However, it seems the fast track growth and development is not being taken in stride by the other entities of this universe. We are facing unhealthy repercussions and conduct from others. It can be seen all around us. We certainly don’t deserve this. All we need is a facelift. The world needs to know that there is something special in the soil of this country. And for that we need a facelift. A facelift that will make the country glow with pride!!!!!!!


I urge all Indians to come forward and contribute from their end to help us grow and grow mutually with the world because we are here not to grow selfishly but grow selflessly.


Leaving a video for you all…… enjoy!!!!!!



25 comments:

Shilpa Garg said...

A great post Sumeet!
And this video, actually gave me goose bumps!!

Yeah, we sure need a facelift!!
happy Independence Day in advance and Jai Hind! :)

Unknown said...

Hey, I guess a facelift would be feasible only when the underlying structure is intact. In the case of India I think we need to stir right from the core. A lot has been done and a lot more needs to be done. Each one must come forth and do his bit and do it well. Jai Hind!

Unknown said...

Thanks Shilpa!!!! Glad that you liked it!!!!

@Akshay: Totally agree with you akshay. We all need to pool in from our side all that we can!!! IF not for facelift we can atleast try to go upto the core problems and lend our helping hands to resolve them.

Unknown said...

hi sumeeth..template looks good....great post... but i couldnt see the video..it says not available..try again later...

Unknown said...

@Shankar!!!! Thanks for the comment!!!! THe credit goes to you for the template!!! Thanks a lot for it.

Nayan said...

dude ur blog is startin to look kooler by da day! keep up da good work! i generally save des pages as bookmarks n read it in free time ! want to contribute somethin maself ... will do it some time if u can accomodate some naive writers !

nuts
nayan

gAuRaV jOsHi said...

15th Aug…Our Independence Day… Yes, it is fine to wish every Indian, but frankly speaking this is one of the gloomiest and depressing Independence Day. Swine flu, draught, flood, earthquake, terrorism, inflation and ‘good ol’ issues like poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, corruption (this list doesn’t seem like ending…), population, pollution, dirty politics, ‘religion-cast-etc-etc ‘based racism and what not… This never ending list is making me panicky. What the “@*$#” are we doing to this awesome country???

We are doing something wrong here, aren’t we? Definitely…

We all are good at talking, but when it comes to execution we fail (except in case of destruction where we show great mob mentality; but when it comes to doing something right everybody shows their back to us)

Most of us have turned into ‘Eunuchs’, including me… and more than that we have accepted this. This is more frightening than anything.

Whenever I look around, what do I find? Our basic necessities are plagued with.

Food we eat, screwed…
Air we breathe, ditto…
Water we drink, ditto …
Transport, ditto …
Political system, ditto …
Education system, ditto …
Police system, ditto …
Economy, ditto …
Natural resources, ditto …
Laws and regulation system, ditto …
Money we use, ditto …
Media, ditto …
And so on….

In short, our country is suffering from not only one disease, but its health is in chronic state. And we all are fine with this… “Chalta hai (Its ok)”, “Kuc nahi hoga iss country ka (nothing’s gonna change)”… what is the use of such lines? Why can’t we do something about it? What is the use if we can’t even capitalize on the point that we have the larger percentage of young Indians?

So, NOW IT’S THE TIME TO TAKE ACTION… enough of this Gyan… I am fed up with myself, my helplessness… There is no one to guide a single Indian… Whom should I follow? Is there a single ‘Leader‘in this huge country?

I am proud to be an Indian… I am proud to be a part of country with this great heritage… but we should build our country over it… we can’t live in past and glorify things… on one side we have corporate India and on the other side, poor India… so in short, ‘Richers are getting richer; and poor are getting poorer…’

Everybody loves a Martyr, but would you like to be one? I am not blaming anyone, I am blaming myself… I am frustrated with myself… We all remember out country in the month of Aug or Jan… Why so? How many of us are actually proud to be an Indian? How many of us even know the meaning of our national anthem? There is lot of to write about...

Just need your inputs on what should we do to rectify this…We need to come out of this ‘Hibernation’

Shruti said...

hey sumeet!! once again a nice post!!
especially that video?! awesome...
u forgot to mention about one thing re!!!
its the launch of "bhuvan" by ISRO in rememberance of vikram sarabhai!!
its a satellite mapping tool...
its lik google maps?!!
Indians are the mind behind the launch of this!!
proud to be Indian
happy independence day!

Unknown said...

@nayan!! Thanx dude!!! U start up blogging!!! I ll try my level best to help u out with it

@Gaurav!!!! Grt points!!! I think you should infact write a post over these points. Ppl wud read it and atleast a few would understand ur feelings

Unknown said...

@shruti!!! Thanks a lot Shruti!!! I wud be adding the point to the blog asap!!!!And the video!!! it really is awesome!!!! 1 of ma favorites

Shruti said...

hey sumeet!!
u don take up any tags?!
now am tagging you!!!
Take up that S tag and do it!!
Cos Frm S myself and shankar already did this!!
wanna see ur answers!!..i ll add ur name too in the tagged people list?!
okies?!

Unknown said...

sure!!!! please carry on!!!! and send me a mail so that I can get urs!!! It will help me keep u updated with my posts sumeetkiranshah@gmail.com. Am following ur blog!!! Do follow mine

Shruti said...

oye!! I tagged you!!
so now..do this 'S' tag.. I can get updates from ur blog which will be disturbed in my home page!!

Shruti said...

am followin u nw!

Prashansa said...

I totally agree with you! We have every thing. we need a confidance that "Yes! we have It". Each and every nation is facing all the difficulties we are facing! we are not different or alone. We need a face lift!!

Unknown said...

@prashansa: Yup we do have everything but not the right guidance. Well!!! We can also do it without any guidance but with the conservative approach we have we fail to understand and unleash our power!!!!

Vineeta said...

A nice post Sumeet! But I just wonder who needs face lift? We had our bit...but world (if Australia is wat you r pointing to) is not ready to accept it!!

We should continue adding our bit to this country but at the same time with little patience as India is 200 yrs old country while all other developed ones are just 50 yrs old! It will take time for this face lift :)

btw.. i didn't get ur comment on my blog! Was it intended on the article or the comments on the article?

Vineeta said...

Liked ur blog :) Have started following it!

Shruti said...

sumeet check out ma latest post!!

Shruti said...

sumeet check out ma latest post!!

Vineeta said...

Hi Sumeet.. I didnt want to finish the discussion in the middle.. So I have replied to your comment! And plzz. I didnt mind it at all. Would love to discuss and grow on my posts too :)

btw.. I was tagged too.. ur comments r welcome there too:)

Shruti said...

check out my comments for:
http://sumeetshah.blogspot.com/2009/06/for-all-those-who-are-in-hunt-of-their.html

ReloMary said...

There's indeed something special about the soil of your country! I hope one day to visit!!

Shruti said...

Hi sumeet!
check out my blog!
you have been tagged..

keep smiling

Unknown said...

Of all the comments I have received till date on all my posts, this happens to be the best one!!!!!

Thanks!!!!

Looking forward to healthy discussion/learning from you!!!!!

The day you plan to visit do let me know, I will definitely meet you wherever you stay in India