They are so humble,
helpful, thankful, innocent and caring that they fail to be anywhere close to
diplomacy. They give others selflessly and expect nothing at all in return.
This of course, is a generalization of the majority of the people from such
regions and excluding a rather savage people. The humanity in the urban locales
is reducing as fast as the trees in these areas. On a lighter note - I feel the
warmth of the people is directly proportional to the trees that survive in
their area; although, no offense to people belonging to desert areas!
If you wish to see the
real India, i would suggest you go to the interior rural areas. That's the true
INDIAN culture. The culture that can now be seen in the urban counterparts is
as fake as the makeup that the women in these regions are laden with. The
hospitality that you'll find in any house in the rural areas is incomparable to
any top tier hotel anywhere in the country. The basic difference lies in
sharing your already minimal resources. Let me paint a brief picture - 4 people
sit cramped up on the train seat meant for only 3(sometimes just 2) people. We,
the urban people, call it insanity and stupidity or even tackiness, but they
call it sharing. And the reason for the sharing is that each one of them cannot
afford the seat for more reasons than one.
We usually call people
before visiting (or what we call it as crashing into) their homes, but if you
go to countryside, everyone's door is wide open. They welcome visitors who come
uninformed and treat them well. And I think that's the true Indian culture and
not the one that we try to imitate looking at westerners.
Luxury means different to different people. For some it is buying expensive toys which their kids hardly play with or buying expensive fancy foodstuff that their kids or themselves end up wasting more often. But for many in India luxury means buying a Rs. 5 vadapav for their kid or buying fancy, attractive and dirt cheap stuff in the train.
It's about time we
start preserving the true Indian culture, which is on the verge of extinction
much like the 1400 and odd Indian tigers. The tigers' extinction can be debated
as a natural step in ecological evolution but the extinction of our culture is
a mere reflection of our naive attraction towards the relatively younger
cultures. Instead of being proud of our achievements and our traditions and
spreading them across the world, we are pacing towards being western (or as we
call it - being "global").
