Have you ever observed that the feeling of slavery (in Indians) has not completely gone ? It still runs in our blood. That pleasing-the-master feeling, habits and the nature just don’t away. Being in corporate sector, I can relate it to so many things happening daily. Just few of the common observations:
- How difficult it is to say NO to your boss ?
- How comfortable most of the people are in expressing their “personal life” needs ?
- How much buttering-of-the-boss happens in most of the companies ?
- How we never say NO to the client because he pays us !
- How we are made to work on Saturdays, Sundays and late evenings and we don’t have the guts to say NO !
- How we don’t have the guts to call a wrong a wrong !
- How stupidly we think that if we don’t agree to what the guy sitting in front of us says, he will feel bad !
And so many other things. Is there a hope that India would get rid of all this ?
January 9, 2010 at 8:52 am
Interesting observation….And in my opinion yes, eventually India will begin to harness and express it’s independence and not so easily give into the need to please. If you look at India’s independence it is still very young in the timeline of history, and this subserviant mentality has been passed down, from our bap dadas who did whatever it took to survive and succeed during the British reign and if you think about it, it has only been how many generations since independence? 2 maybe 3 at the most…..It is now with our generation and the generations to come that you see them assert their own identity as Independent Indians who are from a growing super power on a global scale. India is beginning to flourish due to it’s own human resources and it’s own national goods…..they own themselves and slowly the reality of that truth will give the young minds confidence to be able to assert their independence from old school thinking and stregth to change the common occurances….
January 9, 2010 at 11:24 pm
Completely agree about the “passed down” thing. That is exactly one of the biggest reason behind this. As far as new generations are concerned, i don’t see much hope and that is what is worrisome. Selfishness has taken over like anything and this self-respect thing is nowhere to be seen 🙁 .
January 9, 2010 at 10:01 am
mama ! gal pata ki aa tenu man samjhouna chakkar
suppose tere appraisal apr to mar hundi aa .. ok
fer banda apr to sept taan kamm krda ki pehla pehla kamm chukk layiye fer last ch pressure ghat hou
sept to dec banda half yearly appraisal krke kari jaanda …
reh gya JFM …
os tym banda fer boss de naa khush hon ton darda darda na ni keh sakda …..
so eh saari kutte khaani PMS (performance mgmt system) krke aaa
January 9, 2010 at 11:24 pm
bai je PMS na hove te hindustania ne kam ni karna…bimari ethe ik ni…
January 9, 2010 at 5:29 pm
🙁
ese karke ta main job chad ti..really this wont ever go..infact we wont let it go 🙁
January 9, 2010 at 11:25 pm
🙁
Yes. We only are responsible for this. We consciously accept the poison.
January 12, 2010 at 12:51 pm
i know one person who says No when required ……u wanna know..he is Amardeep Sidhu…and this is the best i like in him……may be this is the worst ppl dislike abt him…….
January 21, 2010 at 7:45 pm
oyeeeeee 😉