I know i shouldn’t have used this word BUT even this is lighter than what they deserve to be called !
One of my friend got transferred from Bangalore to Noida. As moving from one city to another (that too with family) is a big issue so he also started all the efforts of settling in the new city. Initially he didn’t bring his family with him and started searching for a rented accommodation. And this very first thing started the frustration. These days you cant find a house without involving a property dealer and it brings with it 2 wonderful things:
First that you have to pay one month rent to the broker.
and second that broker charge the same amount (or some %age of it) from the owner also. Due to this the rents you are told are generally above the normal. Lets say owner tells the broker that i want to rent out my apartment for 10k. Broker will tell him, you just wait i will help in renting out for 12k. Now why owner would say no to this ? This is the level of honesty with profession they are doing.
Another speciality with brokers is that what they tell, out of that more than 90% are lies (they justify it as need of the profession !) They will give you the time to show you the house. You might reach there covering some good 40-50 kms to see that his office is closed and phone switched off ! It is so common. You might have tasted this if ever tried looking for a rented apartment.
Now come to house owners. They want money. That is all. You live or die. They don’t know. In India we cry about so called great culture, humanity, blah blah…where is that ?
The lady whose house he rented uttered a lot that you can shift on sunday. Everything will be done by Sunday. It has already been 3 days. Nothing is done and above all she shows rudeness in her behaviour that why she should do it ? Bullshit !
My friend is a very punctual and true to words guy. You ask him to come at 1:55 and he will be there by 1:50 and people here ? what to say…no value of time, words…they tell something and do something and reality is something else…
Don’t know where we are heading ?
Do you still think “Honesty is the best policy ?”
It has been 2 weeks since he came here and everywhere (looking for house or anything else) we have met with just frustration nothing else ?
What to do ? Where to go ?
June 3, 2008 at 10:11 pm
ya true, if its only effort, its still ok, but the pain comes from the ‘Hera-Pheris’ that they do.
Its tough for ‘Aam Aadmi’ and more for ‘Imaandaar Aadmi’
not all people are bad, but this is Kalyug, hope he finds an Apt soon.
sulekha.com works there or not? Things will improve with time, I am pretty sure 🙂
June 4, 2008 at 2:27 pm
should an “Aam Aadmi” be change due to socity for survive? That’s a big question!
June 5, 2008 at 11:46 am
Yeh, even I observed the same thing, specially at northern part of India (I am also a north Indian) that is too at Delhi you used the correct word BASTARDS. There are some communities specially Panjabis Delhi.
This is typical North Indian mentality, when I was in Bangalore I saw the people of Bangalore are so educated and do things properly, like preparing proper rent agreements and all no doubt they take 10 month’s advance, but above this you will get peace of mind not all non-sense like this.
Also here the people who are holding land or land lords here are basically those who got this land as ancestral properties and they never went to any school or colleges not even studied moral education or civic sense. People of Delhi specially NCR claims to be a HighTech city, I am damn sure that this is not the mentality of the people of HighTech cities 🙂 at least they behave as an educated people. I must say that NCR with this kind of mentality can never be a HighTech city. Just by making roads (which even collapse with one rain 🙂 ) is not a sign of a HighTech city. It also include, mentality of people, security a government is providing, facilities like electricity & water. It is not even as-good-as a town.
June 5, 2008 at 9:06 pm
@Amritpal
Yea common man (read imaandaari aadmi) is who is most troubled. And despite knowing that what is happening is wrong he cant do anything other than facing it and getting frustrated.
Hopes for improvements are fading 🙁
June 5, 2008 at 9:08 pm
@Neeraj
Yup. you are honest…but what is the reward for that ?
For how long you can keep high spirits ?
After all we are humans too 🙁
June 5, 2008 at 9:10 pm
@Suraj
Exactly ! I second that…
In nutshell Delhi sucks…
People are so selfish…
As i said fading hopes….
Rab hi rakha….