Independence Day

Happy Independence Day, India!! Today is the 60th birthday of what is frequently called “the largest democracy in the world”. Each and every newspaper is filled with Independence Day crap. It is hard to find any proper news. Although it is understandable that on such days, the news turn much attention to the past and so on, but to read from every piece of paper, how incredibly good and wonderful (if not to say flawless) it is in India is irritating. What happened to all of the poverty, where are the underprivileged people? How about corruption? No, they have not disappeared just like that. Of course we all know that India is a developing country (as is Estonia) with the problems, so typical to developing countries and is trying to overcome them, but I think it is immoral to only talk about the good things, while closing your eyes to everything else. Leaving aside the newspapers, the day is great. Since it is a holiday, the whole city is extremely quiet and peaceful. Yesterday I gave an interview to the school’s newspaper. It was pleasant and I met whole bunch of nice people again. Also, it is now certain that I will have some foreign company here in Jalandhar, as a new student from USA is coming here (they just found him a host-family). The guy is going to come to my school and possibly to my class. I’ll be looking forward to that.