One can only hope that India will be a developed country in his/her lifetime. The way things are moving in India I cant see it being a developed country in my lifetime atleast. My recent trip to India forces me to come to this conclusion. I cant see development anywhere. I do not like calling improvements development. This is what you find in India, things improving because they were in an unnecessary bad condition. True improvements will ultimately end in development, but depends on the speed of these improvements. What you find is everything is slow in India right now. But we can hope that it will pick up speed in the coming years and not decades. China should be our undying example showcasing hunger for development.
If you call "malls and pseud restuarants with limited or lack of parking being built in overcrowded areas, people driving expensive cars on shitty bumpy narrow roads, real estate prices skyrocketing on hype/speculation, government offices still being inefficient" development, then sorry I am not with you and I will never be with you. People are proud of their money and cars, spending lavishly is big for them. But, to me driving an expensive car on a shitty road is far worse than driving an average car on an average quality road. The malls are big and beautiful, but parking facility is most of the times shoddy and inadequate. Whenever I see a beautiful mall with parked vehicles spilling out on to the road, i get irked.
The Hi-tech city is another example of haphazard development. I had never been to the tech park and was hoping I will get to see a very modern and efficient system in place. The supposedly "modern face of Hyderabad" is so disappointing I got depressed at people's stupidity in accepting it as Hyd's prized possession and being proud about it. To me there was nothing to be proud about except that it was giving valuable jobs to scores of youngsters. The buildings are huge, wouldnt say beautiful or magnificient on the exterior but do give a mental image of the number of techies going about their work in a number of software companies. But what beats you is lack of parking in the buildings that houses some of the world famous MNCs. Bloody hell man! cars, bikes and scooters are parked by the roadside. What the heck! to me thats illegal and shows the apathy of the building owners and the companies housed there. The roads are dug here and there and everywhere, and are not wide enough considering the fact that most of the employees there are either driving or will be driving a car to and from work. To me Hi-tech city was an ungainly sight. The roads in front of my apartment complex here in the US and my beautifully built housing community in Hyderabad are 100 % better than hi-tech city roads.
I am so depressed about the lack of sense of development in India that I dont want to continue this post anymore now. When will people understand that development includes the notion of convenience and efficieny in whatever facility you are providing a common man.
Having a cell fone that has great features but bad network is not what I am looking for.
If you call "malls and pseud restuarants with limited or lack of parking being built in overcrowded areas, people driving expensive cars on shitty bumpy narrow roads, real estate prices skyrocketing on hype/speculation, government offices still being inefficient" development, then sorry I am not with you and I will never be with you. People are proud of their money and cars, spending lavishly is big for them. But, to me driving an expensive car on a shitty road is far worse than driving an average car on an average quality road. The malls are big and beautiful, but parking facility is most of the times shoddy and inadequate. Whenever I see a beautiful mall with parked vehicles spilling out on to the road, i get irked.
The Hi-tech city is another example of haphazard development. I had never been to the tech park and was hoping I will get to see a very modern and efficient system in place. The supposedly "modern face of Hyderabad" is so disappointing I got depressed at people's stupidity in accepting it as Hyd's prized possession and being proud about it. To me there was nothing to be proud about except that it was giving valuable jobs to scores of youngsters. The buildings are huge, wouldnt say beautiful or magnificient on the exterior but do give a mental image of the number of techies going about their work in a number of software companies. But what beats you is lack of parking in the buildings that houses some of the world famous MNCs. Bloody hell man! cars, bikes and scooters are parked by the roadside. What the heck! to me thats illegal and shows the apathy of the building owners and the companies housed there. The roads are dug here and there and everywhere, and are not wide enough considering the fact that most of the employees there are either driving or will be driving a car to and from work. To me Hi-tech city was an ungainly sight. The roads in front of my apartment complex here in the US and my beautifully built housing community in Hyderabad are 100 % better than hi-tech city roads.
I am so depressed about the lack of sense of development in India that I dont want to continue this post anymore now. When will people understand that development includes the notion of convenience and efficieny in whatever facility you are providing a common man.
Having a cell fone that has great features but bad network is not what I am looking for.
