India: Occupation Galore!

Lack of occupation? Who? Indians? Us? Have you gone nuts? We have more jobs than we actually need. Even more than the land of opportunities US has. It’s just a sorry brand positioning of the country for no reason. We are forever occupied. Each one of us. Unemployment? Is that Hebrew? Our country gives us options to pick n choose occupations! We are the world’s busiest nation.

Our country is unimaginably united and linked. Anybody does anything in any corner, the arse of the entire nation gets tickled and we get busy. An asset painter of a rival faith is driven out of the country for doing his job. His country left no stone unturned to make sure he leaves his own country and settles in an alien one. He gives a damn! Shifts to another country, walks around barefoot and swipes his credit card to buy a Bentley! A well-deserved tight slap on the nation’s face.

We are immensely sensitive. The juvenile nation gets shaken by tweets. We feel good, we feel bad, we cry, we’re angry, we even dismiss, reject people on the basis of their tweets! So what if the person is a fresh breath of air within the rotten dungeons of the world’s largest democracy. What a wrong place you chose to be Mr. Tharoor. We are the young, rich, educated, emerging middle-class talking. We are the kings of trivialising and certainly don’t deserve you. We’ll forever be happy being led by corrupt, uneducated (literate but uneducated), have hidden sex genre of people. We have a mould for our leaders and expect you to fit in there.

And when life gets too bland in India, we of course have prime time, unscripted reality dramas in form of celebrity weddings. The golden girl of the country crosses borders to pick a husband, fake wife turns up, claims divorce, marriage happens, reception happens, who all make it to the invitee list, what do they wear to the event, what menu, what colour did the groom shit, everything. Courtesy- Our indispensable media. One full week of salacious gossyp for the hungry us. What more do we need to keep ourselves going. Patriotism, Indo-Pak bonhomie, everything takes a backseat.

An oversensitive country incurs humungous losses because of its attitude. We forget, a country of more than a billion hearts is also a country of more than a billion brains. And living with brains, instead of hearts, at times can prove to be of benefit for the mankind beyond measure. All this...still we are busy. And occupied afterall.