Back from the sabbatical from blogging!
Few days back I was speaking to a friend @ work when something struck an old-hidden-anger !
In one of my older posts, few years back I remember I had coined a statement ” We don’t relate ourself to success, but we relate ourself to people who are successful”. I feel it is time to coin another statement 
” We relate ourself to successful people, but we isolate ourself from our own success”
“Hari, can you check the version 1.o of the document ?” Now, that question irked me. For heaven sake it is 1.0 and not 1.o.. it is Zero and not O (as in Oscar).
Zero is pride of India. Me – being a lover of interviews, biographies, narrations, watch every damn documentary on History Channel. A documentary on the number Zero, elobrated the impact of Zero in the number system and the world of communication…. binary bits (0, 1). Then why do we Indians have started calling it “Oh” instead of “Zero”. Are we not shying away from the success that we inherited ? Hurting !
I am not conservative or close-minded person, but I take pride of what I have inherited as long as it is reasonable and holds good even in modern times.
Being a Zero is shameful but not the very being of Zero.
How many times the TV channels and newspapers make headlines ” …..of Indian-origin has achieved ….” Why are we starving so much to find Indian link to someone successful?
I always feel we have never come out of the tradiational…historial .. may be futuristic statement ” We are a developing nation” . It is true that we are a developing nation, but most of us try to remember/forget this fact for our benefits.
We don’t remember that we are still a developing when we take up the whole expense of hosting CWG.
So Hari’s back again..
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Its so true, we indians always take pride in showing tht how successfully we imitate the west and never feel pride in anything thts “Indian”
Hey Kartik,,
If I am not wrong. .. this is the only comment where u agreed with me
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U put it so wonderfully.. “we take pride in how well we imitate ppl”
Welcome back !!! buddy. I’m totally endorsing your lines….
For me, its OK to ‘imitate’ the west untill we are not forgetting our own roots from where we belong and believe in what we do, take pride of it.
Off the topic, when we ourselves, question our abilities after winning 100 odd medals in CWG, I feel there is a long way to go for us to come out of being called “developing nation”.