Yes, I mean it. Why? Plenty of reasons. First of all, why did you leave India in the first place? For a better life? Then why do you want to go back? India has not changed a bit so far as the usual nuisances are concerned. For example:
1. People still freely spit and answer to nature's calls (big and small) in open streets.
2. They do not have any sense of hygiene and the public toilets throughout the entire country are unusuable.
3. Stray dogs, cats, cows, monkies, and other animals still freely roam on city streets.
4. Food items sold by roadside vendors still give diarrhea, dysentery, typhoid, cholera, gastroenteritis, and other dangarous diseases.
5. Uninterrupted supply of electricity is too much to expect (especially in Kolkata). Frequent, unannounced powercuts are normal everyday business and even God doesn't know when the power might return.
6. Supply of filtered water at a reasonable pressure in cities and towns is not guaranteed..
7. Standing in mile-long lines is normal for everything in India, whether you are buying a movie ticket or trying to make a reservation in a train run by the Indian Railways, or you want to do something in a post office or bank or ANYWHERE.
8. Expecting a seat in a public transport whether it is a bus, tram, train or anything is day-dreaming. A toe-hold is considered good fortune in a city bus or commuter train in India.
9. India is a hot country and people do not use de-odorants there. As a result the stench in crowded places (and it is crowded everywhere!) is UNBEARABLE. (Most people in India wear polyester-cotton blends and they do not change clothes everyday).
10. Indians do not see dentists for preventive care. (The only time they see a dentist is when they have unbearable pain in their tooth and the treatment the dentist provides is extraction of the decayed and diseased tooth.) As a result, most Indians have bad breath. Yuck.
11. Indians throw garbage on city streets. That is normal with them. Finding a garbage disposal bin in an Indian city street is rare.
Want to know more? Get in touch with me.
Secondly, those of you who left India at a relatively early age in search of a better life and settled in an advanced country and became a citizen of that country, please show your allegiance to that country. Don't leave the country after you have fulfilled your personal ambination. Now that you are retired, it is your time to pay back to the community. Don't leave now and exploit those poor people in India and hire them as your personal (domestic) servants for peanuts. That is not fair.
I have every right to express my opinion on this. I have lived and worked in India (in various cities) for 40 years and I have lived and worked in USA for almost 30 years. I know the good and bad of both countries. Nobody need to lecture me.
1 comment:
People dont retire to india out of option, but to counter the cost living in a developed country.
In a place like singapore you need to earn atleast 10 crore INR (arnd 3 M SGD) to think of retirement. However you can easily have comfortyable life in india with 5 crore INR.
That means you can retire in half of your working life. Thats tempting insn;t it? And you can mantain same level of living cause labour in india is much cheaper.
Thats just my view.. I would rather retire early :-) then work all my life till 70 to retire for 10 years of my remaining life.
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