Eshwar

A lot of people ask why so many Indians run abroad the first chance they get? Why some states have temples dedicated to foreign country visas? Why some people are so desperate to get away that they even risk death by drowning or freezing to illegally enter other countries? Why are Indians so desperate to immigrate? Because in the countries these people usually move to, they value life. They value people. They value you. Unfortunately, that particular concept is virtually unheard of in India. Here, lives are as important as money is to a sacrificial lamb. Because In India: The government doesn’t give a damn about you. The judiciary thinks you don’t even exist. People, in general, treat others like a piece of crap. And if you treat someone nicely, chances are they’ll backstab you at the first opportunity. Most of us have our souls and self-confidence destroyed, respawned, and then destroyed again on a daily basis. We get treated worse than a car in a Rohit Shetty movie. So why would anyone stay? In India A two-bit clerk in an obscure municipal department can make your life miserable. Any random ticket giver or clerk can abuse you. A part-time watchman outside a private building treats you like a criminal. Store workers treat you like a thief. Everyone treats you like a shirker. Your life is essentially a never-ending hurdles race that lasts for 70 years, if you make it that far that is. So why would anyone stay? In India You risk your life every single time you step out of the house. You can die when an illegal concrete slab, which was permitted by a corrupt babu, falls on you. You can drown in a sewage tunnel because some random bozo has stolen the manhole cover. You can burn to death in an illegally modified bus that the corrupt RTO has permitted to operate. You can be run over by a drunken idiot who’s been given a license by that same RTO. You can be crushed to death in a stampede caused by the incompetence of the police, who can’t handle a crowd. You can die after consuming poison labelled as medicine because the babu who was supposed to prevent it took a bribe and looked the other way. You can fall to death from a train because the railway authorities, after taking lakhs of crores in the name of safety, have blown it all away on "other things". At any point in time, you can get impaled, burned to death, crushed, fall off a cliff, or be killed by a guy with a sword, sometimes all of the above. Here, life is like the game Prince of Persia, except, unlike in the game, you don’t get three lives, nor can you restart. Once you are dead, you are dead. So why would anyone stay? And then comes the worst part. In India, Nobody is held accountable. Nobody faces consequences. Nobody gets punished. There’s nobody you can complain to — and where you miraculously can, nobody listens. People whose incompetence caused your death get promoted. Some even run important departments that enable them to kill more people. Every second of your life here is a herculean effort against the system, the process and the people. However, Hercules had 12 labours in total. In India, you face 12 labours everyday So why would anyone stay? Therefore, when someone actually gets a chance to get out, it shouldn’t be a surprise that they take it with both hands. P.S.: In the last six months, 22 children died because of fake medicine, 40 people were burned to death in illegally modified buses and 51 people died in stampedes. Those were 113 easily preventable deaths. Deaths mind you. DEATHS 113 innocent Indian citizens lost their lives. What happened after that? How many government officials were arrested? How many were punished? How many were sacked? What were the actions taken? How quickly we forgot everyone? The answers to these questions will tell you why many people don’t want to stay in India anymore.