Sunday, June 22, 2008

Life in big city


I saw this a couple hundred meters before a traffic light in Oxfordshire. I found it amusing when I sighted it, but then I noticed some road repair work was being carried out between this board and the traffic light. My immediate thought was how many such boards will have to be installed in Bombay, if the authorities ever bothered about motorists and pedestrians.

Now don’t give me that “Don't ask what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country”. I am a tax payer and wonder from time to time, what this country is providing me in return. We have been a “developing nation” for far too long and wonder if / when would we get to the “developed” status.

I don’t want to sound like am complaining; but the feeling that how deprived we are in certain aspects of life, gets the better of me sometimes. I guess my state of frustration arises out of ever increasing prices (check out the recent inflation number) and depleting infrastructure. God Save us!!
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