Newbie at large!

Peter (Moderator) (☼Travelguide writer) says on Aug 1, 2007, 01:29:

BaJaHa says on Aug 3, 2007, 08:36:

Hi, Peter.
Devanagari script is the easier part, pronouncing the letters/words is a trial. I downloaded some BBC programmes (Free) for the study and purchased various books on the subject.

If anyone is interested there is a program on BBC Radio 4 next Friday at 1100 entitled Gandhi's Dream.

Basically the advert statement made the following points:

Gandhi was a villager, he disliked towns, his idea of the future India was that there would be a village type system in which each village would run it's own affairs, social and political. The idea of mutual benefit and tolerance amongst all people.

It was of course a utopian dream, and was doomed from the start. The program then states:

83% of Indians live in villages, the current boom in the country has benefited a large number of people and has made an even larger number of souls even poorer.

I can see this everywhere around me. Anyone who had any skill at all left the village and moved to the towns, some made it others beg. The villages have become virtually bankrupt as a result.

Corruption in India is a way of life, everyone and I mean everyone, who has any kind of social standing got there by corruption and remains there by the same means. It is not looked upon as corruption by those who freely practice it, it is an acceptable manner of behaviour. When I first got ripped off it was at the Customs control. I sent six cases by air freight and went to collect them. My relation there had words with the official and his exact words were
"He will have to learn the way things happen here"I learned to the tune of £130:00 (Exactly RS10790)

An American president (Johnston I think)stated:
"corruption in all walks of life is what keeps corrupt people corrupt. rich people richer and poor people even poorer".

"Indians are indeed corrupt, but they are nice about it and they smile"
~ Me~

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