Wednesday, April 16, 2008

we hate each other... and love more than that...

My previous post has been long back in february while i was reading the book inspite of the gods...
and it was about an atrocious act in Godhra in 2002. But those atrocious acts come into the lime light and not the incidents which make india such a great country...

Recently i started reading a book called Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts and ... i stumbled upon a strange statement...

"What would happen if as many French or American people as the number of Indians were allowed to stay in a place as small as India. They would kill each other ..for space..."

It is only the love for each other in Indians that allows them to live in a place like India. The author describes an incident where he travels in a local train in Mumbai which is as crowded as it can be and to his bewilderment nobody actually complains. If you have been ever to Mumbai ...
you would know how much you have to adjust to travel in a second class compartment in the local train.


I have just completed some 100 pages out of the 900 odd page book... and i am loving it like hell...

Keep watching... more to come on this book.