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Mario writes:
What continues to confound me, however, is the utter lack of civic sense and
respect in India for the physical space of the general public and one's
neighbors. This manifests itself in the urinating and
defecating in public, the spitting and throwing of thrash wherever one can
get away with it and the strange transformation from sane to insane as soon
as a car door closes behind the driver.
Sunith responds:
Actually what is truly confounding is how Indians are obsessed with personal
and domestic hygiene, and once out of their house doors all sense of hygiene
is lost.
The traffic situation is completely beyond my understanding. We have the
highest accident rate in the world and everyone knows too many people die in
traffic accidents here, but no one cares. I know of at least 5 class mates
and many more family members and acquaintances who have died in vehicle
accidents (an abnormal figure anywhere else in the world), yet adherence to
traffic rules has only gotten worse. Witness the massive protests against
wearing of helmets and compulsory seat belts. Goans have proven that wearing
helmets causes hair loss, and hair loss is one of the prime causes of motor
cycle related deaths the world over! I remember when the protests against
helmets were going on, my company driver told me of an incident in his
village where a dumper truck(weighing over 10 tons) ran over a fellow
villager, and that the helmet did nothing to save his life. So obviously
helmets were useless and just another money making ploy.
Maybe it has something to do with the Indian brain and the sound of shutting
of doors! Once a door is shut(car or house) reason and intelligence
disappear.
Regards
Sunith Velho
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