Schizophrenia

I have always been astonished by the traffic in India, I used to say "If you can drive in India you can drive anywhere in the world". An upcoming company has taken this aphorism of mine and made it their slogan. "Drive Over Pvt Ltd" has added Driving lessons to the list of things, which are being outsourced to India. Western world is facing a big challenge of traffic, as number of vehicles is increasing at a high pace. The roads are becoming smaller compared to the size that is required for such traffic. Bhulwinder Singh, who used to be a truck driver realized this as an opportunity and started "Drive Over". Indian drivers have been fighting with this problem for long and they have the experience to handle it. So why not sell this expertise and teach western world how to drive in a limited space. The lessons in his driving school include "how to fit 8 cars in a 2 lane road?" and "how to overtake on a single lane road?"

Indian traffic signals don't have cameras to take pictures of traffic offenders. 5 years ago a commission was created to do the feasibility study of installing cameras on traffic signals of metros. The government allocated a budget for installing cameras. Cameras were installed but not on traffic signals but in the public parks and gardens. When I first saw these cameras I was impressed with how India is becoming tech savvy. But when I didn't see the cameras on traffic signals, I was surprised! Why will they put cameras on public places but not on traffic signals? After some investigation I found out that the cameras in the public places are not for security but to catch the offenders of the "kissing in public" law. As the fine of kissing in public is much more than any traffic offence, the commission decided to put up the cameras to catch its offenders. They concluded that the fine money collected using these cameras would be much more than that collected with traffic signal cameras.

Its 2012.
I was thinking I won't write till 2020, but today I received an email from the Google saying that my blog will be removed if I am not going to update it for so many years. Since Google and Microsoft joined hands things have been different. Prior to this Google used to be a customer friendly company, but since then it has been acting strange.
The new Operating system which Google and M$ are planning to release early next year will change things drastically. The OS running on user's machine will be actually working for Google.
Now they will be using my PC's power and my Internet connection to spider and analyze the websites, without paying me a penny. They call it netGRID computing. You might say that it's not fair, but it doesn't matter. Was it fair when M$ was caught sending private info of customers back to its server and no action was taken because it was supplying that info to the US government?

Anyways the blog is about India, so in last two years things have started changing in India. Many young entrepreneurs are becoming successful. Worth mentioning is 35 yr old Sarhind Jain who is now a billionaire. He used to be a "madari" with three well-trained monkeys, but his business was bleak because of TV, Internet and Menaka Gandhi. He came up with a brilliant idea and trained his monkeys to clean public places. Soon he started getting contracts for cleaning and maintaining the parks, roads etc within the premises of private building complexes. When government tried to stop him on the pretext that he is doing cruelty on animals he showed the government with contracts, which these monkeys signed with him. He claims that his employment contracts are much better than those of many software companies. He pays less but working conditions are much better.
When asked why he didn't hire humans for his company, he said "Goverment already has hired humans for cleaning the public places, do you find them clean?"
He says that his goal is not to make money but to see a cleaner india, thats why his employees clean public places and roads without charging any money. Thanks to "Monkeys United Pvt Ltd" india is becoming a cleaner place.

Its year 2010 i am living in cyprus for last 10 years , when i came initially here, i wanted to stay here just for 3 years and then go back to india. But things changed, first i loved cyprus then a cypriot girl, and ended up marrying both.
We are going back to india on vacation, its hectic as always, but it is better than 4 years ago when we had to change three planes to go to india from cyprus, Now we have direct flight from cyprus to india because there are so many indians living in cyprus.
But even with daily direct flights to india its very difficult to find tickets. We were lucky to get the tickets in the diwali season. We finally landed on the delhi airport. It is the world's busiest airport in holiday season because indians from all around the world come to india to celebrate festivals. I remember 2 years ago when they had to create 4 more runways to accomodate all this traffic. The situation has not changed at all from last 5 years, earlier it was small and crowded, now its huge and crowded.
Last 5 years have seen many new international airports and expansion of all major airports because of huge numbers of indians living abroad. This number is growing with fast pace.
Everybody in india wants to leave it and go live somewhere else.
Recently i went to a remote greek island for cruise and i found a hindu temple there. I was not at all suprised to find an indian community living there who reached there on boats. (who says greeks are the best sailors ?) Anyway regarding that temple i asked some local indians and they told me that a god's idol was found when they were digging for a severage line, and the hindus asked the local authorities to change the route of severage and built a temple there. When i went inside the temple i saw a piece of statue which didnt seem familiar to me. It seemed more like a greek god to me, so i asked the priest of the temple, "which god is this?". He said it is 38,879th avatar(incarnation) of the lord vishnu.
Now there are even theories that greek gods were nothing but avatar's of lord vishnu.
3 years ago this remote island of greece had only 10 families. There was only one relegion and that was orthodox chritianity. Today the population of this island is 20,000 with 85% persons of indian origin .And now there are 12 relegious communities in this small island.
Thats all for now, i will talk to you all after 10 years from now.