India….our country . we blame it ,we criticize it but for some unique aspect we just love it .This republic day I thought over the reasons behind our love for this special nation and came up with many reasons .I am just mentioning only 5 reasons depicting the 5 letters of “INDIA”.
I-INDINISATION
We may borrow the ideas from the west but we convert them in such a way that it completely looses its own value and appears completely new and purely Indian.
Our ability to adapt other cuisines to our tastes: Hot and Sour Chinese soup has desi tadka. Sandwiches aren't thinly sliced and lightly buttered slices of bread with slivers of cucumber. We add green chutney and sliced aloo and beetroot. We invented Chicken and Veg Manchurian, developed Udipi pizzas, concocted onion omelettes, created veg kheema, de-Japanesed Japanese food by cooking up gajjar-ka-sushi,
The way we force MNCs to Indianise: McDonald's had to invent the McAloo Tikki, the Paneer Wrap and the chicken burger. Pepsi came up with Masala Lays. Coke never used celebrities in their ads abroad till they came here. Whatever the MNCs are famous for in phoren, when they're here, they've got be us.
N-NAMES
We have a name for every aspect, every relation and each and every minor occasion in life .some are inspired and some are not, but each one is distinct from other
The way we have a name for every single person we may be even remotely related to:Ma, baap, dada, dadi, nana, nani, taya, tayi, chacha, chachi, bua, phupha, mama, mami, beta, beti, potaa, naati, poti, naatin, behan, jija, bhanja, bhanji, bhai, bhabhi, bhatija, bhatiji, pati, patni, saas, sasur, damaad, bahu, jeth, jethani, nanad, nandoii, devar, devarani, saali, salaa, samdhan. And that's only in Hindi. Need we say more? Indian movies: Bollywood, Tollywood, Mollywood, any wood - but the films that we make are definitely not Hollywood. Our films are our films , wherever in the country they're made, in whatever language, there will be laughter, tears, songs, dances, action, family values, principles all in three hours. Talk about paisa vasool.
D-DIVERSITY IN FOOD
We exhibit amazing diversity in food habit that are so distict and unique you cant find any where else in the word
We have vegetarians who won't touch anything that once had the potential to move (though I don't understand this too well - don't palak leaves flutter in the breeze?), we have vegetarians who will eat all vegetables but won't touch garlic or onion, we have eggetarians who will only eat vegetables and eggs, we have chickenatarians who only eat vegetables and chicken but not eggs, we have fishitarians who will not touch dairy with a bargepole and non-vegetarians who think green veggies are a form of mould. We have so many people with so many dietary problems that it's a wonder we get to eat anything at all.
When we set off for school or the office clutching our tiffin boxes, we know very well we're not going to eat anything that's in them. Because the second it's time for lunch, tiffins are exchanged for what our classmates or colleagues have brought. Which is why, in one day, we could find we have eaten anything from akoori (Parsi) to aloo poshto (Bengal), to sai bhaji (Sindh), to dalma(Oriya), to aloo-bhaji (UP), to tandoori chicken (Punjabi), to biryani (Muslim)
I-INDIAN ENGLISH
We communicate in 16 recognised regional languages which includes our national language i.e Hindi ,but we also publish the largest selling English daily in the world which tells about our English speaking population
So here we are, writing in the foreign language our one-time colonizers bequeathed to us, and here you are, reading it. But let's not get all chauvinistic about this. Because just as we have de-Japanesed Japanese food and come up with gajjar-ka-sushi, we have de-Englished the English language and now only speak Indian. Indian is only superficially English. That's because we translate phrases directly from our local languages into Indian so it's no wonder that at times we feel there's someone eating our heads. And if we're in too much of a hurry to translate anything, we just bung in words from all over the place, so there are five separate languages in a single sentence.

A-AUTOS
Germany had its cute little Volkswagen Beetle, we have our cute little autos - three-wheelers packed with hi-tech music systems and disco lights that would put nightclubs to shame, which trundle up and down roads as their drivers overcharge everyone in sight. Carrying almost double of its capacity the authority and confidence shown by this little vehicle while crossing a junction cannot be matched even with a Mercedes
truly INDIAN............... cannot agree more.............
ReplyDeleteGOOD ONE...KEEP THE SPIRIT OF INDIA ALIVE......JAI HIND!!!!
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ReplyDeleteVery rare piece of work....u truly are an Indian...and hey..thanx for this information..
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