Atulya !Bharat a la Incredible !ndia

I am not going to advertise the tourist hegemony of India or praise the oddest possible Yogic Calisthenics which is shown in the advert as if it is a daily morning act in front of Taj .I think you all can imagine what would be the most probable morning picture in Agra with the Taj in the backdrop, some kid shitting carelessly in the open very much unaware of Shah Jahan or Yoga.Here are some of the incidents that I came accross recently :

• I was waiting in line for getting a train reservation and as usual there were at least 150 persons in a relatively smaller room insufficient even to house 15 cows if they were placed as per PETA's guidelines, but alas there is no one fighting for treating human beings humanely.After a wait of close to 2 hours I was relieved that there was only one person in between me and the cancelled ticket money ( another long whining going on in my mind of why even after paying a 100 bucks or so extra for booking the ticket online I can't get it cancelled in a similar manner ).The ticket clerk asked the chap in front of me why he hadn't specified his flat / house number in the specified place, he said he lives in Jhuggi Jhopri colony so he doesn't have a house number but then the clerk remarked that he had mentioned a mobile number he grinned widely and displaying his Nokia 3315 said "haan mobile phone to hai naa !!".
• I went to a friend's place and while I was comparing his cook's elegance with that of my cook's brazen ways one thing came up which took me with great surprise.He told me that they were late in paying the cook his salary in time once or twice due to one reason or the other when the cook was a little irked and the third time he asked them "Sir ! why are you taking so much pains of withdrawing the money from ATM etc. Do one thing, here is my ICICI account number just transfer the money online I would check it myself".Now the trend in there home is that as they make other regular payments to Hutch or their credit card they are now paying their cook's salary online.
  

Incredible isn't it when way back in 1998 before joining my Engg college I had hardly any knowledge about Credit Cards or Internet or even ATM cards ... India rocks and we will soon be making a killing in terms of retail, banking, insurance and what not and we are going to the witness to all this !!