Hi Kumaran, >1. LET’S RESOLVE NOT TO BARGAIN >2. LET’S RESOLVE TO PAY OUR LABOURERS A LITTLE MORE: >3. LET’S RESOLVE TO USE DUSTBINS: >4. LET’S RESOLVE NOT TO SPIT IN PUBLIC:
I will pass on this wonderful resolution.... These are my often thought but less spoken feelings that you have well said. thanks, Shankar On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Kumaran R <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Admit it! We love to bitch about how terrible India is. How terrible our > economy is. How we’ll never be able to clean up the gross pollution….. The > bitter fact is that we’re always waiting for someone to begin a ‘MASS > MOVEMENT’ that would ‘CHANGE INDIA’S ECONOMY, CLEAN UP OUR STREETS AND > ERADICATE POVERTY – OVERNIGHT’. Wake up people! That’s never gonna happen. > > > Forget the MASS MOVEMENT. Why don’t we start a small, tiny, microscopic > movement? Just YOU, ME and OUR FRIENDS. Let’s get together and make four > small NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS that we WON’T break. > > 1. LET’S RESOLVE NOT TO BARGAIN: > Don’t we all love to bargain with our local vendor. Cut him/her down a > rupee or two? Would we ever try this at a Shopping Mall like Food World? Or > at a Raymonds/Garden showroom? They’re the ones that rip us off BIG TIME! The > few extra rupees our local vendor makes off us would go a long way to improve > his/her life. That’s where our economic growth begins. > > > 2. LET’S RESOLVE TO PAY OUR LABOURERS A LITTLE MORE: > Pretty much the same thing. Quite often we are Paisa wise and Rupee > foolish. Paying our servant/dhobi/sewage cleaner a few rupees more will go a > long way in ensuring that the so-called ‘lower strata’ of India is given more > purchasing power. That is definitely the first step in building up our > economy. It won’t blow a hole in our pockets – trust me. > > > 3. LET’S RESOLVE TO USE DUSTBINS: > Of course you’re gonna say that you’re already doing that. Well, think > about the many times you’ve tossed a scrap of paper onto the road murmering > to yourself, “er..no..dustbin in sight..”. Think about the times you tossed a > paper/plastic cup out of your car/a bus/a train thinking that one tiny scrap > won’t make too much of a difference. Now think about two million people doing > the same thing!! It’s a fact that we don’t have enough dustbins in public > places. But would it hurt to carry your litter to the nearest dustbin? I’ve > done it and it hasn’t hurt one bit. > > > 4. LET’S RESOLVE NOT TO SPIT IN PUBLIC: > Sometimes I think this is India’s national sport! Paan, phlegm, just > about anything…PTHEW! Onto the street. On the wall. On the door. On the > train. In the bus… In fact I had the misfortune of finding myself behind a > brand new Mercedes at a signal. Click! The door opened and a cool looking > dude popped his head out and spat his true colours onto the road!! Man! Let’s > just try and contain it till we reach a wash basin, or find a tissue that > would help us dispose of it. I bet we as a Nation will save tons of money on > whitewashing alone if this can be done. > > > This isn’t a big SAVE INDIA MOVEMENT. It’s a ‘LET’S GET REAL’ movement. > Follow these four resolutions to start with, pass it on to your friends and I > bet that by the end of this year the change will be evident. > > If you’re convinced, pass this on to your friends with a personal note. > You won’t get bad luck if you don’t, you won’t get a lucky phone call within > 5 minutes if you do, but you’ll definitely make a change. > > > > FORGET THE MOVEMENT. YOU ARE THE MOVEMENT. > > > With Regards, > --Kumaran R > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
