Is India really shining !!!!

The traffic, the overcrowded metros and buses, the long commuting hours, pot-holed roads, ever increasing pollution, forever lasting construction of city infrastructure, dealing with corruption while coping with work pressure and moreover the 'Indian' work culture that requires you to spend more than 10 hours in office, then going home to demanding in-laws and dealing with even more demanding new-gen kids . Who said we are living the good life in this tomorrow’s economic super power?

According to a survey, Indians were asked to evaluate the quality of their lives as "thriving", "struggling" or "suffering" and 31% chose suffering compared to the global figure of only 13%. This proves our life quality really needs an upgrade. Are our well-paying job and the existence of corruption at every level, the deciding factors when perceiving our life quality.

How do you feel, when you have to change two trains and then take bus or auto to get to work everyday, that takes approx. 4 hours of your precious time daily, which could have been spent with you kids and family? Yes you may earn well at the end of it, but what is the point of it, if you cannot enjoy a stress free evening with your loved ones?

I wouldn't call this a great life, where you have to constantly struggle to outrun others. Today many of us don’t even remember the last time we took a vacation. No matter where you go from roads to platforms to hospitals or even movie theatres, people are always in rush. Doctors don’t spare more than 5 minutes for you, no matter what your ailment is…. in the daily queues everyone will be equally in hurry…. On top of everything, there's a scam in everything.

It's nice to hear and think of India as a rapidly growing as economic power and will soon out do many other developing countries. But does this thought matches when one walks down any street… the experience is enough to bring you back to reality. The gap between the rich and the poor is so huge and so visible. From a person in high end chauffeur driven cars to the one on bicycle with his wife on the carrier and child on the rod infront… the contrast is massive. And while on one hand, the infamous recession sword hangs over our head, on the other hand, there is a price hike in everything, from veggies to petrol to clothes and land. There is almost nothing that you can call a guilt free purchase.

Not going materialistic, if we just see around us and the environment we live in. Many of us notice a concrete jungle with no trees or fresh air to breath, then if we venture to go on a weekend break to a nearby cleaner and greener destination, we bump into a crowd of people trying to do the same. “Wish I was not living in a developing country”, sometimes this thought surely does come in our bugged mind.

Are we left with any option, for a certain lifestyle or to fulfill our or our kids dreams, we have to work through all these challenges smilingly and hope for the best, believing in what we hear.. that India is developing ! This is just to calm and soothe ourselves every evening after a struggling day, but then again a new day begins with new dares ….

So Is India really shining, What’s your take on this ???