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10 Funny Things About Working in India
- We don’t want to do any invention. Just tell us which buttons to press and we will do it
- If the boss says ‘Yes’, we all should say ‘Yes’ too. We lick better than dogs
- If a man is successful, load more of our work on him. Please don’t call us Free-Loaders
- We share our laptops/desktops/workplace. So we must be doing great work (You can cramp in more people if you like)
- His skin is white. Let’s bow to him
- If we can’t find faults in a person’s work, let us attack his character & family
- He is doing late hours in office. So he must be doing more work for the company
- ‘Making great architectures of buildings’ is more important than ‘Making great people’
- We businessman provide food to thousands of families whose men work for us. That is better than ‘The men who work for us provide food for themselves’
- No one should be irreplaceable. Forget about a man’s contribution
on politicizing a tragedy
The government in Uttar Pradesh, run by India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)…
…because of negligence &a govt that didn’t pay its bills or relocate patients…
Noise
we make news out of lipstick, travel
and choice of ice cream.
we make news out of nationalism,
feminism,
rationalism,
patriotism,
and ‘lets be offended by everything’ isms
we make flashy news
…
we are the people of todayour self worth
rests on the opinion of others,
on magazine covers,
on ‘how many more overs’
on frequent lovers
we are the average man in a cue
that nobody notices
we are you
…
we are deafened by the silenceof our own voice.
Read the complete transcript of Kalki Koechlin’s ‘Noise’ here
On biased media and newspapers
A national newspapers giving preference to regional unrest over national equality / central government.