The urban Indian behaviour in a nutshell
Insightful article on what it means to be an Indian by an Indian newspaper editor from Mumbai. Re-blogged from: Observations about the urban Indian by Aakar Patel www.paklinks.com/gs/culture-literature-and-linguistics/300216-urban-indian-behaviour-unfolded.html Much of the writer’s observations hold true on the ground, though I doubt if some of these values are not present in other cultures too, and whether these are mere ground realities or a defining framework. Most of us behave as if we have been let loose into the outside world from an internal madhouse. The internal and the external – these, I guess, are the two worlds that mankind is fated to live in, as a famous economist wrote....