India 2006

What comes to your mind when you think of India in the year 2006? I posted that question to about 2 dozen people and got a dozen responses already. Overwhelming. :) It was my personal survey and I have got some interesting elobrate responses so far. My response to those folks is - please blog.

So here are some -

"Mumbai blasts were really unfortunate....very unfortunate"

"Increasing number of indians are getting optimistic abt their future. Plus india received a lot of recognition on the world stage. The successful passage of the nuclear deal is just one instance. As the say, the tiger has woken up..."

"RESERVATION - oh my blood boils at the very mention of this topic and Congress could do it one more time!!! indian youth is tryin hard - day in and out to take where our country stands in the globe Today and these sick politicians only care for their dirty politics without caring how these idiotic decisions will impact india's future!!!"

"Reservation Bill for IIT and AIIM etc. SHoudnt have passed this law."

"The first thing that came to my mind were some of the major deals that Indian steel companies did, buying up other major steel companies around the world, for some reason, this came as a sign of great growth to me. (also reflected by the growth in indian economy)."

"Improving Indian Legal system (I was surprised beyond belief with the legal system in India when some well known people were convicted of their crimes and brought to justice by the legal department...examples in case, Sanjay Dutt, Navjot Singh Siddu, Manu Sharma (Jesica Lal case), and Shibbu Soren)"

"Uneducated (when someone supposedly tampered with B.R.Ambedkar's(BRA) statue in Kanpur, in Maharashtra alone the common public followers of BRA destroyed public property worth 2.5 crores in 2 days...mind u we could've made a gold statue of BRA in that money, and I'm not even counting the other states and the troubles faced by other common people...this is un-education at its peak)"

"Opening of Indian Skies. Improvement of aviation in India."

"Dual-citizenship. Now I can be a american citizen and still keep my Indian citizenship"

"Pathetic Indian Politics (I have tons of stories on this, even though I've only stayed here for two and half months. A simple problem in Chennai is after and during monsoon rains, the roads are always flooded with water, and stagnates beyond imagination. Even though this is a known issue, none of the moronic politicians here pay attention to it. The most basic infrastructure in India needs some major attention and revamp, if not we're farther away than our so called global goals.)"

"Number of people who died in the bomb blast which happened in Mumbai locals."

"economic growth because of the growth in the IT sector in India."

To be continued....