Comments on: My Dear Average NRI http://expertdabbler.com/2007/02/03/my-dear-average-nri/ Rombo nallavan Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:20:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Daniel http://expertdabbler.com/2007/02/03/my-dear-average-nri/#comment-30750 Daniel Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:10:56 +0000 http://expertdabbler.com/2007/02/03/my-dear-average-nri/#comment-30750 I couldn't understand some parts of this article My Dear Average NRI, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting. I couldn’t understand some parts of this article My Dear Average NRI, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.

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]]> By: A Joglekar http://expertdabbler.com/2007/02/03/my-dear-average-nri/#comment-28513 A Joglekar Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:37:28 +0000 http://expertdabbler.com/2007/02/03/my-dear-average-nri/#comment-28513 Hope this informs the discussion, I happen to be an NRI and wonder how my efforts will be measure up with the author - Much of the world wide web is full of sarcasm & mocking of driving on Indian roads. This site http://driving-india.blogspot.com/ has been created with the purpose of providing driver education and training rather than criticism. At present I have produced and made available 17 driver education videos aimed at changing the driving culture on Indian roads are available. To watch the videos, please visit: http://driving-india.blogspot.com/ The videos cover the following topics: Video 1: Covers the concept of Blind spots Video 2: Introduces the principle of Mirrors, Signal and Manoeuvre Video 3: At red lights, stop behind the stop line Video 4: At red lights there are no free left turns Video 5: The Zebra belongs to pedestrians Video 6: Tyres and Tarmac (rather than bumper to bumper) Video 7: Merging with the Main road Video 8: Leaving The Main Road Video 9: Never Cut Corners Video 10: Show Courtesy on roads Video 11: 5 Rules that help deal with Roundabouts Video 12: Speed limits, stopping distances, tailgating & 2 seconds rule Video 13: Lane discipline and overtaking Video 14: Low beam or high beam? Video 15: Parallel (reverse parking) made easy Video 16: Give the cyclist the respect of a car Video 17: Dealing with in-car condensation Many thanks Hope this informs the discussion, I happen to be an NRI and wonder how my efforts will be measure up with the author -

Much of the world wide web is full of sarcasm & mocking of driving on Indian roads.

This site http://driving-india.blogspot.com/ has been created with the purpose of providing driver education and training rather than criticism.

At present I have produced and made available 17 driver education videos aimed at changing the driving culture on Indian roads are available. To watch the videos, please visit: http://driving-india.blogspot.com/

The videos cover the following topics:

Video 1: Covers the concept of Blind spots
Video 2: Introduces the principle of Mirrors, Signal and Manoeuvre
Video 3: At red lights, stop behind the stop line
Video 4: At red lights there are no free left turns
Video 5: The Zebra belongs to pedestrians
Video 6: Tyres and Tarmac (rather than bumper to bumper)
Video 7: Merging with the Main road
Video 8: Leaving The Main Road
Video 9: Never Cut Corners
Video 10: Show Courtesy on roads
Video 11: 5 Rules that help deal with Roundabouts
Video 12: Speed limits, stopping distances, tailgating & 2 seconds rule
Video 13: Lane discipline and overtaking
Video 14: Low beam or high beam?
Video 15: Parallel (reverse parking) made easy
Video 16: Give the cyclist the respect of a car
Video 17: Dealing with in-car condensation

Many thanks

]]> By: prabukarthik http://expertdabbler.com/2007/02/03/my-dear-average-nri/#comment-12484 prabukarthik Mon, 12 Mar 2007 02:25:13 +0000 http://expertdabbler.com/2007/02/03/my-dear-average-nri/#comment-12484 Parsingtime Welcome here! if you have the time to run thru these comments you might know who was the catalyst in writing this piece and it most certainly was not you. I did even know your blog when i wrote this in the first place, so me assuming u to be an NRI does not arise.. My readers' comments and opinions are their own... Parsingtime

Welcome here! if you have the time to run thru these comments you might
know who was the catalyst in writing this piece and it most certainly was not you.
I did even know your blog when i wrote this in the first place, so me assuming u to be an NRI does not arise..
My readers’ comments and opinions are their own…

]]> By: Parsingtime http://expertdabbler.com/2007/02/03/my-dear-average-nri/#comment-12483 Parsingtime Mon, 12 Mar 2007 01:01:05 +0000 http://expertdabbler.com/2007/02/03/my-dear-average-nri/#comment-12483 I am not an NRI as you all assume. I have been to India twice for a total of three weeks, but I appreciate your commenters calling me names and assuming they know me from one blog post. It has been illuminating to say the least. I am not an NRI as you all assume. I have been to India twice for a total of three weeks, but I appreciate your commenters calling me names and assuming they know me from one blog post. It has been illuminating to say the least.

]]> By: kalakku http://expertdabbler.com/2007/02/03/my-dear-average-nri/#comment-9868 kalakku Sat, 03 Mar 2007 03:10:50 +0000 http://expertdabbler.com/2007/02/03/my-dear-average-nri/#comment-9868 I enjoyed reading this blog. It has accomplished in accurately venting your feelings. But it is very subjective. Most people move to the US for personal development and that is not to say they feel ashamed of having born in India. If all NRIs return to India we would have no global presence and what do you have to feel proud about India? It's like saying your are a tamilan and you should never leave the state. Just accept that you returned to India for personal reasons and don't try to justify your decision in public because I'm pretty sure it's not the guns or bad president that drove you to India neither is love towards your motherland. As someone mentioned neither prejudice nor pretense is going to make you a Mahatma - Just live in peace wherever you are. I enjoyed reading this blog. It has accomplished in accurately venting your feelings. But it is very subjective. Most people move to the US for personal development and that is not to say they feel ashamed of having born in India. If all NRIs return to India we would have no global presence and what do you have to feel proud about India? It’s like saying your are a tamilan and you should never leave the state. Just accept that you returned to India for personal reasons and don’t try to justify your decision in public because I’m pretty sure it’s not the guns or bad president that drove you to India neither is love towards your motherland. As someone mentioned neither prejudice nor pretense is going to make you a Mahatma - Just live in peace wherever you are.

]]> By: rr http://expertdabbler.com/2007/02/03/my-dear-average-nri/#comment-7892 rr Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:14:27 +0000 http://expertdabbler.com/2007/02/03/my-dear-average-nri/#comment-7892 one last thought... More than the post itself, or as much as the post, it's this post's title that possibly rubbed some people the wrong way. Elsewhere you say it's not directed towards all NRIs. I quote from your comment #65: "As i said and keep saying again and again, this post is aimed only towards them and not towards all NRIs. I dont have any intention of starting any ‘Hate NRI’ campaign. I’ve got better things to do. " But this post's title says "My Dear Average NRI". :-) one last thought…

More than the post itself, or as much as the post, it’s this post’s title that possibly rubbed some people the wrong way. Elsewhere you say it’s not directed towards all NRIs. I quote from your comment #65:

“As i said and keep saying again and again, this post is aimed only towards them and not towards all NRIs. I dont have any intention of starting any ‘Hate NRI’ campaign. I’ve got better things to do. ”

But this post’s title says “My Dear Average NRI”. :-)

]]> By: rr http://expertdabbler.com/2007/02/03/my-dear-average-nri/#comment-7131 rr Sun, 25 Feb 2007 22:40:15 +0000 http://expertdabbler.com/2007/02/03/my-dear-average-nri/#comment-7131 >>#33 >> All of us who studied in India are highly proficient in atleast 2 languages and have a working knowledge of another 2. This is not true for a vast majority of kids in Tamilnadu, which is the only south Indian state where the kids don't get to learn a third language. And yes, that includes me. This is not by choice, but due to the way politicians impose their views on people. >>@159 Lalith “educated illiterates” - otherwise known as useful idiots. :-). Agree with you completely. >>#33
>> All of us who studied in India are highly proficient in atleast 2 languages and have a working knowledge of another 2.

This is not true for a vast majority of kids in Tamilnadu, which is the only south Indian state where the kids don’t get to learn a third language. And yes, that includes me. This is not by choice, but due to the way politicians impose their views on people.

>>@159 Lalith

“educated illiterates” - otherwise known as useful idiots. :-). Agree with you completely.

]]> By: Murali http://expertdabbler.com/2007/02/03/my-dear-average-nri/#comment-6760 Murali Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:05:52 +0000 http://expertdabbler.com/2007/02/03/my-dear-average-nri/#comment-6760 First and foremost, I have to admire your post, it did touch everyone who read it, and it even made people respond. I am one of the person, who you are referring here as an average NRI. You know why as an Indian, I am respected in this country? It is the same reason you are mentioning. I do not get involved in all those things you mentioned in your post. Gun culture, US war, or even mugging on the streets of this country. Who am I to talk about all these things? I am an ALIEN in this county and I am willing to be that way. If I understand your post correctly, it feels like you came to this country and returned back. Good for you and may be you did return to India to help eradicate the corruption, or to help all the kids kidnapped in Bihar or to fight against bureaucracy. But at the bottom of my heart, I still have a lingering feeling that you might have returned to India because India is really shinning these days. See, India is my country and yes Tamil Nadu is dearer to me. My father was strict, he used to be hard on me, and I never liked it in my childhood. But I did not hate him for that, what I hated was that he was hard on my cousins too. Can you understand the difference? I don’t think your post does. I complain about the road, I complain about corruption but I do not hate my country. I want my county to be a shinning star. I want every one in the world wanting to come to my country. That’s the reason I am hard on my country, it’s my country. But here in USA I am an Alien, I am here on business like the British in India. They did not care about you, they did not build the railway system to serve Indians, and they built it to serve their business. I am an NRI and you are not, that does not mean that you are giving your life for the benefit of India. Gandhi gave his life for the people of India but even the great one failed his family. I am not willing to fail my family. I cannot be Mahatma, and yes as every Indian I am living in a dream to get another Mahatma so that I can live under his shade. Until then all I got is “Complaining”. Murali First and foremost, I have to admire your post, it did touch everyone who read it, and it even made people respond.
I am one of the person, who you are referring here as an average NRI. You know why as an Indian, I am respected in this country? It is the same reason you are mentioning. I do not get involved in all those things you mentioned in your post. Gun culture, US war, or even mugging on the streets of this country. Who am I to talk about all these things? I am an ALIEN in this county and I am willing to be that way. If I understand your post correctly, it feels like you came to this country and returned back. Good for you and may be you did return to India to help eradicate the corruption, or to help all the kids kidnapped in Bihar or to fight against bureaucracy. But at the bottom of my heart, I still have a lingering feeling that you might have returned to India because India is really shinning these days.
See, India is my country and yes Tamil Nadu is dearer to me. My father was strict, he used to be hard on me, and I never liked it in my childhood. But I did not hate him for that, what I hated was that he was hard on my cousins too. Can you understand the difference? I don’t think your post does. I complain about the road, I complain about corruption but I do not hate my country. I want my county to be a shinning star. I want every one in the world wanting to come to my country. That’s the reason I am hard on my country, it’s my country. But here in USA I am an Alien, I am here on business like the British in India. They did not care about you, they did not build the railway system to serve Indians, and they built it to serve their business.
I am an NRI and you are not, that does not mean that you are giving your life for the benefit of India. Gandhi gave his life for the people of India but even the great one failed his family. I am not willing to fail my family. I cannot be Mahatma, and yes as every Indian I am living in a dream to get another Mahatma so that I can live under his shade. Until then all I got is “Complaining”.
Murali

]]> By: balar http://expertdabbler.com/2007/02/03/my-dear-average-nri/#comment-6684 balar Sun, 18 Feb 2007 22:57:51 +0000 http://expertdabbler.com/2007/02/03/my-dear-average-nri/#comment-6684 Pk sir, Mannithu vidungal, Ippa than namma Vijaya TR padam parthen, athan commentleyum antha effect vanthurichu... ;) Pk sir,

Mannithu vidungal, Ippa than namma Vijaya TR padam parthen, athan commentleyum antha effect vanthurichu…
;)

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