Oh India...

I am just trying to think where Indians need a mindset change, and have to do a lot better to raise their standard of living...

From what I see today

• Respect for the other man - I don't quite know why we Indians by default loathe each other as long as the other person is not known to us - like on the roads. Civility to fellow beings will certainly be a good start.
• Just wondering if all this has to do with the overflowing population and consequent disregard for the other person - the other person is an abundant commodity - is this turning out to be a demand and supply thingie?
• Compromising on all available rules and finding ways around them - everybody, from the people to the police themselves, is looking at things from a selfish perspective.
• The blissful ignorance of the other parts of the world is not a good thing. I don't see Bangalore, one of the best cities of India becoming something like London in another 20 years, while everybody else in the world zooms ahead in development.
• As a columnist at rediff said, people here, after independence, were told that they were the kings in the country, and everybody now has a perverted sense of ownership of all public property. There is no hesitation in thinking of all public property as one's own and destroying/rubbishing them. Right from burning buses, tearing the leather in the bus seats, to spitting all along the roads, not realising that there are people who pay taxes to maintain all these.
• You cannot tell a person on the road not to do such things. There is far too much "Why do you care - is it your father's property?" attitude floating around. I really don't know when this will come to a stop.

I can clearly tell that since these are mindset issues, once these things stop, the nation will be a lot better. People here either are indulging in this nonsense or have been forced into living in denial and compromise. Which is why I fully support a movie like Anniyan (Tamil), which hits at these issues. I sincerely hope people get the message right, and stop talking about technical glitches or other silly things about the movie, which don't matter compared to the issue that it addresses.

Anyways, I will stop for now, let's see what the future holds...