i love my india?

[threeonethree]

So lets be practical and leave all patriotic feelings aside. These are the problems i am facing, i completely had it with this place:

1) No broadband: if you call that measly 2 mbps dataone with montly limit ,broadband! why cant i have a 20 mbps cheap and unlimited connection?

2) i cant get the latest hardware without shelling out truckloads of cash. most of the latest hardware in india has heavy tax on it. people stare at me if i am playing some game on my psp and think that i ran from a mental centre if i have my ep 635 in my ears.

every 4th guy comes and ask "bhaiya yeh konsa chinese set hai?" (refering to the psp) . " bhaiya kya yeh battery se chalta hai?"

3) i went out to buy a good pair of raw slim straight fit jeans.. like hardware, most fashion stores dont have the latest "models" . they all have @%y clothes. i coudnt find a decent jean! the brands available like levis, lee ,wrangler, spykar, etc etc dont cut it for me..

the higher end ones sell stuff at a premium. when i couldnt find a decent jean at these stores , i went to a mall which had a brand named "GAS" . the price of the jean was 6000 rupees but i didnt like it. it was completely overpriced.
why cant we have brands like apc , nudie jeans , acne etc in our god forsaken country?

a) in our colleges why cant they have an updated syllabus. why do they teach us how to program on that boring borland c++ everywhere? why does every single computer in the lab has windows xp and ie 6 on it which almost crashed on me twice in 15 mins , why cant we have linux in our college.why dont they teach us something that actually useful and fun?why dont they have textbooks as informing and fun as computer mags and websites. i study 2nd year engineering in IT . why doesnt any teacher know anything about IT? why do students get 100/100 in a computer subject but dont know how to use a mouse? why do they teach me maths when i dont want!?

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personal--- things about my college and people around me

4) i am having a hard time in college because all the people in the college seem like noobs. i listen to music like led zepplin , nirvana , plain white Ts , some classic rock oldies , underground hip hop etc, but these people find me strange and tell me to listen to good music like sonu nigam and pritam ( which i know is copied music). i tell them this but they dont care.

5) And most people here wont appriciate movies like "the pianist" or "the beautiful mind" . they will reject a movie without even watching just because its in english. then they will happily watch that movie dubbed in hindi ( which loses all its charm of originality) . or watch bollywood movies which are ripped off from the same movies..

6) people in my college never seem to appriciate the best things in life which i appriciate ,like digit .. none has any reading habit . nothing.


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And the girls .. especially the girls .. none of them know the T of tech even while studying 3rd year computer science.. they have no taste nothing .they all listen to sonu nigam and wear pink tshirts and laugh without a reason. gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!111

is it the world or is it just me?!


lots more but not now.
sorry about the typos.
i cant believe i typed this..

[Faun]

glad you aren't among the herd. Live free.

[2kewl]

And the girls .. especially the girls .. none of them know the T of tech even while studying 3rd year computer science.. they have no taste nothing .they all listen to sonu nigam and wear pink tshirts and laugh without a reason. gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!111

Hahaha...so true!

[Faun]

Originally Posted by threeonethree

So lets be practical and leave all patriotic feelings aside. These are the problems i am facing, i completely had it with this place:

1) No broadband: if you call that measly 2 mbps dataone with montly limit ,broadband! why cant i have a 20 mbps cheap and unlimited connection?

2) i cant get the latest hardware without shelling out truckloads of cash. most of the latest hardware in india has heavy tax on it.

3) i went out to buy a good pair of raw slim straight fit jeans.. like hardware, most fashion stores dont have the latest "models" . they all have @%y clothes. i coudnt find a decent jean! the brands available like levis, lee ,wrangler, spykar, etc etc dont cut it for me..

the higher end ones sell stuff at a premium. when i couldnt find a decent jean at these stores , i went to a mall which had a brand named "GAS" . the price of the jean was 6000 rupees but i didnt like it. it was completely overpriced.
why cant we have brands like apc , nudie jeans , acne etc in our god forsaken country?

a) in our colleges why cant they have an updated syllabus. why do they teach us how to program on that boring borland c++ everywhere? why dont they teach us something that actually useful and fun? i study 2nd year engineering in IT . why doesnt any teacher know anything about IT? why do students get 100/100 in a computer subject but dont know how to use a mouse? why do they teach me maths when i dont want!?

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personal--- things about my college and people around me

4) i am having a hard time in college because all the people in the college seem like noobs. i listen to music like led zepplin , nirvana , plain white Ts , some classic rock oldies , underground hip hop etc, but these people find me strange and tell me to listen to good music like sonu nigam and pritam ( which i know is copied music). i tell them this but they dont care.

5) And most people here wont appriciate movies like "the pianist" or "the beautiful mind" . they will reject a movie without even watching just because its in english. then they will happily watch that movie dubbed in hindi ( which loses all its charm of originality) . or watch bollywood movies which are ripped off from the same movies..

6) people in my college never seem to appriciate the best things in life which i appriciate ,like digit .. none has any reading habit . nothing.


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And the girls .. especially the girls .. none of them know the T of tech even while studying 3rd year computer science.. they have no taste nothing .they all listen to sonu nigam and wear pink tshirts and laugh without a reason. gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!111

is it the world or is it just me?!


lots more but not now.
sorry about the typos.
i cant believe i typed this..

1) lol thats a good thing and a bad thing too.
2) Yeah thats cruel, blame the stosh
3) People like brands not the quality, even if ratpoison is sold in name of some porridge with a brand, people will swallow it deep down throat without a question.
4) Thank yourself that you are not another joe.
5) Thats lack of art and amateurish attitude.
6) Yeah, people always talk about the weather

leave the gurls, puhleeze

[iMav]

Originally Posted by threeonethree

1) No broadband: if you call that measly 2 mbps dataone with montly limit ,broadband! why cant i have a 20 mbps cheap and unlimited connection?

In India, be grateful for what you have. If the damn thing works and gives you even those 2 MBPS, thank the lord every morning.

Originally Posted by threeonethree

2) i cant get the latest hardware without shelling out truckloads of cash. most of the latest hardware in india has heavy tax on it.

Well, this is just one of the many stupid things of any govt. India has had.

Originally Posted by threeonethree

3) i went out to buy a good pair of raw slim straight fit jeans.. like hardware, most fashion stores dont have the latest "models" . they all have @%y clothes. i coudnt find a decent jean! the brands available like levis, lee ,wrangler, spykar, etc etc dont cut it for me..

the higher end ones sell stuff at a premium. when i couldnt find a decent jean at these stores , i went to a mall which had a brand named "GAS" . the price of the jean was 6000 rupees but i didnt like it. it was completely overpriced.
why cant we have brands like apc , nudie jeans , acne etc in our god forsaken country?

Des badla, baes badlo

Originally Posted by threeonethree

a) in our colleges why cant they have an updated syllabus. why do they teach us how to program on that boring borland c++ everywhere? why dont they teach us something that actually useful and fun? i study 2nd year engineering in IT . why doesnt any teacher know anything about IT? why do students get 100/100 in a computer subject but dont know how to use a mouse? why do they teach me maths when i dont want!?

Welcome to the education system of India, don't even get me started on this one.

Originally Posted by threeonethree

4) i am having a hard time in college because all the people in the college seem like noobs. i listen to music like led zepplin , nirvana , plain white Ts , some classic rock oldies , underground hip hop etc, but these people find me strange and tell me to listen to good music like sonu nigam and pritam ( which i know is copied music). i tell them this but they dont care.

Change your college. Don't worry, with time you will find someone with your taste.

Originally Posted by threeonethree

5) And most people here wont appriciate movies like "the pianist" or "the beautiful mind" . they will reject a movie without even watching just because its in english. then they will happily watch that movie dubbed in hindi ( which loses all its charm of originality) . or watch bollywood movies which are ripped off from the same movies..

Ah now, a lot of pople appreciate those movies, A Beauiful Mind, is right there at the top for me and many othes on this forum. And, Bollywood does have some really nice movies too. Give credit where due.

Originally Posted by threeonethree

6) people in my college never seem to appriciate the best things in life which i appriciate ,like digit .. none has any reading habit . nothing.

You are the only one here who appreciates Digit mag We only appreciate the forum

Originally Posted by threeonethree

And the girls .. especially the girls .. none of them know the T of tech even while studying 3rd year computer science.. they have no taste nothing .they all listen to sonu nigam and wear pink tshirts and laugh without a reason. gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!111

hmmm ... love problems? ThinkDIgit g33ks for a cause will certainly help you.

[threeonethree]

no love problems here. i have a gf and shes different. I sat down and thought about these things jlt..

[Pat]

Yea, good work! Its really so pathetic that hardware is expensive, we dont have broadband and buying jeans is a nightmare. We are so unfortunate.

Have a look at how happy this country and its people are

Zimbabwe inflation soars to 2.2million%

[The_Devil_Himself]

Originally Posted by threeonethree

So lets be practical and leave all patriotic feelings aside. These are the problems i am facing, i completely had it with this place:

1) No broadband: if you call that measly 2 mbps dataone with montly limit ,broadband! why cant i have a 20 mbps cheap and unlimited connection?

It will come with time,we have a large no. of people to feed unlike some other countries,although Information penetration is a direct indication of informed educated masses but you dont really care about the nuclear deal when you have empty stomach.

2) i cant get the latest hardware without shelling out truckloads of cash. most of the latest hardware in india has heavy tax on it. people stare at me if i am playing some game on my psp and think that i ran from a mental centre if i have my ep 635 in my ears.




every 4th guy comes and ask "bhaiya yeh konsa chinese set hai?" (refering to the psp) . " bhaiya kya yeh battery se chalta hai?"

No wonder,Indian politics sux,afaik Intel wanted to start a plant here in India(a huge one) which could have brought down proccy prices quite a bit but Indian politicians managed to fuk it somehow.

And don't blame the masses,PSP is indeed ugly and huge just like my Zune,So just nod at whatever they say,like me.Ignorance is a bliss.

3) i went out to buy a good pair of raw slim straight fit jeans.. like hardware, most fashion stores dont have the latest "models" . they all have @%y clothes. i coudnt find a decent jean! the brands available like levis, lee ,wrangler, spykar, etc etc dont cut it for me..

no comments.I need to google raw slim straight fit jeans first.

a) in our colleges why cant they have an updated syllabus. why do they teach us how to program on that boring borland c++ everywhere? why does every single computer in the lab has windows xp and ie 6 on it which almost crashed on me twice in 15 mins , why cant we have linux in our college.why dont they teach us something that actually useful and fun?why dont they have textbooks as informing and fun as computer mags and websites. i study 2nd year engineering in IT . why doesnt any teacher know anything about IT? why do students get 100/100 in a computer subject but dont know how to use a mouse? why do they teach me maths when i dont want!?

They are running a business dude!!

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personal--- things about my college and people around me

4) i am having a hard time in college because all the people in the college seem like noobs. i listen to music like led zepplin , nirvana , plain white Ts , some classic rock oldies , underground hip hop etc, but these people find me strange and tell me to listen to good music like sonu nigam and pritam ( which i know is copied music). i tell them this but they dont care.

5) And most people here wont appriciate movies like "the pianist" or "the beautiful mind" . they will reject a movie without even watching just because its in english. then they will happily watch that movie dubbed in hindi ( which loses all its charm of originality) . or watch bollywood movies which are ripped off from the same movies..

6) people in my college never seem to appriciate the best things in life which i appriciate ,like digit .. none has any reading habit . nothing.

OMG.where do you live man?Noobsland or something?


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And the girls .. especially the girls .. none of them know the T of tech even while studying 3rd year computer science.. they have no taste nothing .they all listen to sonu nigam and wear pink tshirts and laugh without a reason. gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!111

:O,you don't say that!
Thank god that you have REAL girls in your engineering college and their names doesn't end with a .jpg,:<.

and besides dumb sexy girls are gods premium gift to males,no sh!t.

is it the world or is it just me?!

nah,its probably just you.


I guess you haven't discovered the beautiful world of alcohol and cracks yet,.Just kidding kiddie.

[iMav]

Originally Posted by The_Devil_Himself

:O,you don't say that!
Thank god that you have REAL girls in your engineering college and their names doesn't end with a .jpg,:<.

[slugger]

Originally Posted by The_Devil_Himself

:O,you don't say that!
Thank god that you have REAL girls in your engineering college and their names doesn't end with a .jpg,:<.

LMAO!!

@threeonthree
shallow

[dreamcatcher]

@threadstarter. How does it matter what people think? If you areplaying a game on ur psp, be happy playing it. Dont wander around and thus, be free of the comments that come your way.

The clothes you are talking about are mostly outsourced by companies. The levis jeans you wear may acutally be a product of bangladesh, ripped and cleaned with a Levi's sticker on top. Just get hold of a good tailor and tell him your specifications, Get your denim printed and do whatever you want. You get quality material in India.

taking of hardware,well ya...India is a late riser in this field. The prices are on the higer side.Btw, if you are bashing India, look at what Uk has to offer.The Ps3 costs about 300 pounds there and the games about 30-40 pounds each..India rox.

Nothing against the Education system in India, more than 25% of the people working in top companies are Indians and with our crap system we seem to do quite good.

As for your college friends,my friends in college are rock and m0vie freaks...if you are to blame, blame your college or locality.

Btw, you should also know that while in India, you are provided with cheap medicinal help. A doctor in the Uk charges uyou 100 pounds for a visit, unless you have an insurance. If your care goes down the drain, 100 pounds for an hour till it gets repaired.

be happy with what you have, i will post more if you are not convinced yet.

Most teenage girls are the same in all countries. they would know of an automatic lipstick applier, but you dont expect them to play with the psp, do u??

[enticer86]

1) No broadband: if you call that measly 2 mbps dataone with montly limit ,broadband! why cant i have a 20 mbps cheap and unlimited connection?.

Most of the India in still on Dial-up, be happy bro.

2) i cant get the latest hardware without shelling out truckloads of cash. most of the latest hardware in india has heavy tax on it. people stare at me if i am playing some game on my psp and think that i ran from a mental centre if i have my ep 635 in my ears.

Ditto. Man I just hate it when a multimedia handset is supposed to contain only "MMS" and the iPods are the hearing aids. And I so hate it when I am reading some pdf book on my cell and ppl peep into that.

3) i went out to buy a good pair of raw slim straight fit jeans.. like hardware, most fashion stores dont have the latest "models" . they all have @%y clothes. i coudnt find a decent jean! the brands available like levis, lee ,wrangler, spykar, etc etc dont cut it for me..

Forget that, I coudn't get a simple basic blue denim from the over-hyped Levi's, for whatever price possible. Are we Indians wearing only monkey wash/ rugged/ otherwise stylised denims?? Why is the "stone wash" variety?

4) i am having a hard time in college because all the people in the college seem like noobs. i listen to music like led zepplin , nirvana , plain white Ts , some classic rock oldies , underground hip hop etc, but these people find me strange and tell me to listen to good music .

Ditto everywhere. Thank you for making me realise I am not exceptional.

5) And most people here wont appriciate movies like "the pianist" or "the beautiful mind" . they will reject a movie without even watching just because its in english. then they will happily watch that movie dubbed in hindi ( which loses all its charm of originality) . or watch bollywood movies which are ripped off from the same movies..

Reminds me of watching Casino Royale, next to a guy who was smelling so bad and was there to watch all the "hot scenes", and laughing when everyone else was. (everyone else laughed when a bunch of literate ppl laughed at something actually funny).

6) people in my college never seem to appriciate the best things in life which i appriciate ,like digit .. none has any reading habit . nothing.

I guess nobody is into reading these days. And those who do, they are called NERDS.

And the girls .. especially the girls .. none of them know the T of tech even while studying 3rd year computer science.. they have no taste nothing .they all listen to sonu nigam and wear pink tshirts and laugh without a reason. gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey.. thats bad.. let them do what they feel like, do anything, but don't abuse them yaar.


WELCOME TO INDIA dude!

[iNFiNiTE]

And here I thought that this thread is about some serious issue like the fking dirty politics seen recently or more like rising inflation etc.

Dude, you mad about not having unlimited broadband and branded clothes... I mean seriously? For many people in this country there are far more important matters to think about.

Originally Posted by The_Devil_Himself

nah,its probably just you.

+1

[rhitwick]

@ the_devil_himself
AGREED.............

Close d thread...........why try to understand him who is pissed off wid everything in this country.
Just one question to d threadstarter, u don't like anything in this country but what are you DOing for it?

[dheeraj_kumar]

^^ Nothing at all, and join the club threeonethree, I feel the same way myself, and know a few others who think the same. I'm gonna leave the country to do my MS after I finish engineering, and come back to this ...place... for a vacation.

[The_Devil_Himself]

ah,kids and their wild fantasies!

[ilugd]

hey you are india. all your whining is not gonna change that. try to get your friends to understand your taste and maybe try it. and as for the others, try to change things where you can. Change what you can, and have the patience to accept the rest.

[confused]

dudes, ok i'll keep it short: only thing thats cheap in the US is tech hardware/gadgets. rest everything from health care to a household maid cost serious $$$$. and forget abt education. believe me India is not as bad as it seems.

And about accepting western culture: u cant force anyone to accept it. maybe 15 yrs down the line things will be different.

[dheeraj_kumar]

ah,kids and their wild fantasies!

I prefer to call them DREAMS

[abhijit_reddevil]

I too have my list of problems but I have learnt to live with it for the last 30 yrs....Apart from all the problems (they will continue to exist), two things which strike me most is:

(i) Have some traffice rules in place and punish rogue drivers heavily to avoid accidents and rash driving.

(ii) Cut down on power cuts. It's really frustrating when you return home after a strenous day at work or you are getting ready to sleep at night, you become ready to switch on the fan at full speed or the AC, and voila, the power goes off for a minimum of an hour.

On the lighter side, if you are so frustrated, do something in the lines of Rang De Basanti.

[Xccentricity]

1. Yup even getting 1mbps speed on a 2mbps connection is a miracle(i.e with BSNL which everyone knows sucks), but Airtel gives proper speeds and world-class service so why not try Airtel?
And BB was introduced in India only recently, so it'll take time to get better speeds.

2. Ya you'll have to shell out loads of cash for latest hardware because MOST of India's population isn't tech oriented like the Japanese etc., people here are are more worried about the prices of daily commodities than about the prices of latest CPUs and GPUs available in the market ,

This is because of the low per-capita income, but its gradually increasing and things will change gradually ,

3. And people ogle at fancy gizmos mostly because they're tempted to have such stuff but cannot afford it, this isn't decent but its not a crime, its just like a kid drooling in a candy shop .

As to points 4, 5, 6:-

Dude everyone has different tastes, you comment about people who don't like tech, English flicks, and your kinda music,
But the people who don't like the stuff you like will be thinking the same thing about you, like how you couldn't like Sonu Nigam, Hindi flicks etc and calling you wannabe punk,

So just because they dont like your kindi stuff doesn't give you the right to call them n00bs ,

And it isn't the world dude its just you , learn to live with and tolerate "differences" of this sort,

And you call all this your problems?! Dude people are starving and dying and here you worry about such trivial things(like what people listen to and watch) ,

And you judge a country on basis of points 4, 5, 6 sheesh man you are the n00b here .

[k6153r]

I hate women.

^^ forget that. (why the hell is there no option for stricking)

I too have similar problems.
1,2,3
Leave aside broadband, jeans, etc we are a poor country.
Sometimes, at least sometimes, some items are better priced.

Our slyllabus is *()#^@&*%#$%(@^#&*^*()@()#&. They still teach us C programs for command line. They have very limited HTML (I love the art of webdesigning). The teachers know nothing more than how to make a plain boring page displaying some simple text.
Our teachers know nothing but what they studied in their colleges. One said Windows 98 is the latest version of Windows, and other doesn't know what the hell is Open source.


BUT DON'T WORRY BROTHER, simpletons seem to have become the majority in our country.

Those born with brains, and correct teacher's mistakes are labelled arogants.

I'm glad god made me intelligent (yes I'll claim myself to be after seeing that people could be sooooooooo dumb, like some of my classmates.)


Regarding music, my taste is strickingly different, I like Tamil folk songs!

About girls...... did you really forget what I worte on top?

[ilugd]

i hate men, women and children. so whats your point? :-P
<edit> hey it is not fair to edit your post so my post sticks out like a sore thumb.</edit>

[Faun]

@k6153r
not straight...huh

[Pathik]

I used to feel the same 3 years back. Now I dont feel. (After seeing Equilibrium )

[The_Devil_Himself]

Originally Posted by Pathik

Now I dont feel. (After seeing Equilibrium )

I had a suspicion that you are a bloody zombie,thanks for confirming.

[thewisecrab]

@threeonethree
Welcome to the club
I too listen to LP, Breaking Benjamin, Metallica, Green Day, Limp Bizkit but guys at my college (+2... I mean) shun me telling I'm angrezi
Till I found a group with my taste
Solution : Either find a group with your tastes in music OR dont give a damn

[MetalheadGautham]

to put it simply, I neither agree with you nor do I disagree with you.

All this is because of the fact that unlike US, UK, Canada, Australia, Japan, Korea, etc, India is not uni-cultural. We have a variety of cultures and due to this some people seem stupid to others and there is a big communication and cultural gap.

If you find a place where people are like you, go there and live there and be happy. Let dogs be dogs and let cats be cats. You can do nothing to change them.

[NucleusKore]

Your grievances may be genuine, but to make a long story short,

I love my India

and you too will if you realise to appreciate what you have rather than what you don't,

FREEDOM OF SPEECH

Look at countries like Zimbabwe today, and feel fortunate.

Jai Hind !

[threeonethree]

I really want to make something clear here , this is not a --i hate india-- thread . i just wanted to share my thoughts. i have nothing against this country , knowing that it feeds me. i am not a wannabe uk or american citizen.