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What is it like to work at Samsung, India?

It's a long answer, so for the ones who lack time and/or patience I've written a tl;dr at the bottom.(Also my answer is biased because I had a bad time there; and I accept in advance that not all of the issues were entirely the company's fault, I was partly responsible too - in some cases; but then again I am just jotting down my experience.)First the salient features of a job/company:Work: It's bad. There is no research. Hardly any coding, mostly log analysis, bug fixing, and dirty work of HQ - certifications, test cases running etc, some little implementation what they ask here and there.Work life balance: It's so bad that I must not get started on it. (Anyway other answers have covered it well). In some aspect it's worse than services companies. Work culture is too bad to even discuss it.Pay: It's good if not bad. But when I say good I am comparing the pay with services companies and other product development companies, because SRI-B is actually not worthy of being compared to software development companies like MSFT, AMZN (I won't even mention few other big names in the same line as Samsung just out of respect), or , Intel etc.HR Policies: Shit.Amenities: Except the newly introduces buses (which they say is the one thing new MD has improved; but they also add that's only thing he improved, he screwed everything else for the bad) people say, who are there, everything has gone to become shittier from shit. Yes, toilets still leak and overflow frequently. Food is as bad as it was earlier.Now I'll try to explain, with examples, in bullet points.It's a shit-hole for anyone who wants to:actually write some code, especially good code. Anyway avoid Android application team if you want to be even close to writing (even) basic algos (you'll mostly access SDK APIs and write silly apps for HQ whims) . (That is the team I was in).enjoy flexible hours. (I could have mentioned "work from home" too, but trust me on this, you'll later realise what a blessing not having that would be).be treated with respect as engineers (and you are not from an IIT).not to do officio-political manoeuvres with acceptable finesse.not earn (close to) half the salary of your college juniors after you passed from that same college 3-4 years ago and have been working with at least good or good+ rating in SISO (err SRI-B).not to be treated as modern-day slaves by Korean (HQ) managers (sometimes even HQ engineers with similar years of experience as yours). Yes, the employee guidelines says: "You are expected to obey your seniors (and HQ)" - yes, this explicit "obey" part is actually mentioned.go on-site and have fun and earn lots of money. (Fun part was never the truth, money part was there but it's gone now - I took many trips). Besides it's an illegal activity - you are going on business visa to work (but who doesn't like some extra dollars, I did too).want to work in a specific topic/field/domain (or is interested in research). No sir, stay away. You'll be pushed in a team and then you'll be locked for 2 years and even after that if you want to change you might be screwed anyway (but hey, don't ever stay in SRI-B for more than a year. Honest and good advice, trust me. My 5 year's experience speaking here :P. Yeah, get the f** out! After some time they will stop treating you as human resource, not even resource)not have a salary structure which can be modified to decrease or kept same even though you were technically given a raise. (HR department is bad, then finance is worse here).not pee and take dumps in smelly, frequently clogging toilets and urinals. Yes, hygiene is beyond questionable standards in SRI-B. If you go to the toilet on cafeteria floor and exit w/o vomiting I may actually offer you some kind of reward. It's been close to three years in the new building and I've heard the situation has only worsened. Overflowing toilets and urinals and jammed commodes are still a norm here.It's a heaven for those who:deal with the points above mentioned.have no problem in sticking around even with repeated mass-humiliation and various cues that you are not needed here any more - even though it's just the top management screwing up, or trying out one of its "experiment" (I shamelessly did this and after some time started to enjoy it, till I started my HS recently).would not see anything ironic or hilariously unsettling in the word "research" when "SRI-B" is expanded.who are good at numbers game: i.e., Idea submission drive? Great, I'll deliver 10 of them in one day - (1.) stand on your two feet and touch the ceiling, (2.) stand on your one foot and touch the ceiling, now for 3rd and 4th just change the 1st and 2nd to make it "touching the ceiling with two hands instead of one". Make sure to log all of these, even though these will be rejected in first go. And note everything in that excel sheet where you wrote: "Team Contribution #721: I took KT session for that fresher to teach how to insert RJ45 in wall socket"can sit at the desk the whole day even though all the work that was done were reading blogs and manga for example (some even finish TV serials - entire bloody seasons I tell you!) and farting at regular intervals along with sending status report throughout the week for the same work (if at all; or "create" it) in different tones and language.has skills of writing long weekly reports as his/her USP. e.g., Let's say you made 2-10 lines change in code (well, comments and logs included), you should be able to make it look like you changed the entire damn architecture and that it might actually be the best thing humanity has ever known only next to the fire or invention of a wheel (yes, you've got to sell your weekly report irrespective of the work done).can actually believe that "changing work culture" is all about pasting stupid posters all over the office, having interior walls painted with silly, bright (eye-hurting bright) colours w/o any consistency and while ending up shooting aesthetics in testicles.is fine getting a hefty raise or offer CTC at the time of joining and then getting screwed from next appraisal cycle. (Or great if you want to jump to some other firm and just want to utilise SRI-B salary offer to negotiate in that other company).is fine with IITian colleagues are rated 1 or 2 (good rating) and you were rated 3-4 (even if all they did was prepare for GMAT/CAT, or if juniors then you actually did their work). But hey, for what it's worth their presence graces the meetings and adds to the oomph factor of team atmosphere.who is fine with earning 1/3rd of what an IITian is earning even though you both joined on the same day as freshers and will be doing same works, at times in the same team, side by side.believes that HR mails are actually blessings in disguise: Sample this - "For the benefit of SRI-B employees we have come up with some facilities that we believe will greatly help our engineers: (1.) Facility X scrapped, (2.) Facility Y scrapped, (3.) Facility Z scrapped. Please feel good!", or here - sample this: "To keep all Asian offices in sync we are happy to announce that we'll have similar leave structure - so, we're doing away with the 2 RH leaves every year that you had. Have fun!" Yes, the leaves that were not in other nations were removed but their extra leave days were not incorporated in SRI-B (in case someone was looking to get the pun). In a nutshell - one of the worst HR policies around.is ready to be fired by reasons unknown to him/her and not given any compensation and asked to leave ASAP. (Yes, like any other company when the HRs told you Samsung never lays off, they were lying - but it's okay, this lie is a a truth everywhere). Naah, I wasn't fired - I wouldn't blame them if I were.is ready to fight for seats during lunch (the ones who travelled in crowded trains and buses wouldn't have a problem - I didn't have a problem). Shitty food (I mean it, ask anyone) adds to the joy of struggle.are ready to read logs and slowly over the months/years convince themselves that 'yeah. that's the highest form of coding genius - reading logs' (yeah, just read logs and then create bug explanations out of thin air) and then one day there would be "the coding test" and you are fine with the expectation of excelling in it. Well, if that happens take the opportunity to prepare and leave.is fine with voice of employees being suppressed at every level. Now, you can't send mail organization, or team wide w/o system approval. Every single comment in the internal forum is posted after explicit HR/IT approval (forum software seems to have been written by drunks and imbeciles). Yes, every single comment! And when you are speaking/commenting in critical tone, those are just rejected w/o an explanation. This is like how the Korean corporate set-up works and they have kept it subtly alive in India too.enjoys harassment by security, HR, finance, GA combined. (There are benefits like you can take a smart phone with SD card and all inside, but not an iPod that might actually be more difficult to steal code on - I've a theory on SRI-B's data/code theft paranoia - I don't think they are worried that they will lose business if code leak happens, but the world will realise how bad their code is and how blatant copy-pastas have been done).(/START update)Job Security?Really? This is a famous myth about Samsung. It fires madly, and at random and they do so every year. Many of you must have heard about this year's blood bath at Samsung India (SRI-B) and how floors are lying vacant after people were fired (errr.. "asked to leave" and "let go"). Yes, if my previous team mates and friends are to be believed they have fired ~30% of the work force (including those who are still service notice period). Yes, my previous manager told me (when we last met) that the early plan was to fire 10-15% but in one meeting the number was upped to ~25-30% and we all had to rush to change the ratings and make adjustments. He said the worst hit is "Android Upgrade" group - or anyone who ever worked for at least 6 months in one of the upgrade projects which mostly involves bug-fixing (well, that's the story of all SRI-B but still Android Upgrade was really pathetic in this context - both the work and work life balance). So first they make you work on shitty projects and when they have squeezed you enough, you are discarded like the fly in the butter.You hear about firings at other companies because they do it in proper and open manner (at least US/EU ones do) with compensation and counselling and extension if an employee badly needs this. Here at Samsung it's done typical Mafia style - "you'll never know what hit you". HR is a joke at Samsung anyway so you have no real remedy if your head came under the axe because two "big" executives at the top are engaged in a power struggle. So one day the HR tells you to leave and that no there won't be any compensation other than the fact that you'll be paid 2 months' salary if you choose to serve those two months. That's it. Your rating was rigged (in most cases) so you can really not do much inside the company and outside the company one must not hope anything from the India courts and labour laws.Also there have been recent suicides at SRI-B and rumours are abuzz there might be more to come (which can just be crap as one cannot predict such things). I do not know much about these as these happened after I left. Maybe someone who is working there can shed some light on it.(/END update)tl;dr: Don't join if you have any other option even though they are offering a little lesser. Join if all you want is to use SRI-B's salary structure to make another jump (but don't get stuck here). It has one of the shittiest work-life balance you might have heard of, and you are not at all respected if you are not an IITian or a boy-scout employee. I've written everything bad, because pretty much that's how it is.Disclaimer: You must have noticed it's mostly negatives (all, I guess). So, yeah butt-hurt has a lot to do with it and so is the fact that this is how my experience with SISO (SRI-B) was till I left.PS. Nothing against IITians, fellows. I am not one and I know that's just my shortcoming. And anyway it's not their fault if a company wants to pay insane salaries to them just to have them grace its office and play TT and make internal "heavily moderated" office discussion forum alive with their interesting quips and demands; especially when the salary is based on GPA and not the interview.

What are the things we don't know about hotel rooms and should?

Hotel Impossible (Travel Channel's Hotel Impossible ) covers all the obvious stuff (and even I learn things from it that I've never thought of before), and Anthony Melchiorri is always coming up with something new (which is why I have him linked here, and I ended up with an addendum on this very topic in the comments [http://www.quora.com/Hotels/What-dont-we-know-about-hotel-rooms/answer/Michael-Forrest-Jones/comment/1859504 ]), but we'll recap on some of it . . .(Meanwhile, here's even more: 8 Things Hotels Won't Tell You (But You Need To Know) )Take the comforter off the bed and toss it aside. If you don't need the blanket for warmth, do the same with it. If you do use the blanket, keep the sheet between your body and the blanket. Anything that comes in contact with any large expanses of the previous guests' bare skin should be taken out and laundered every time the room is made, but it isn't always, especially in cheaper hotels.And more upscale bed and breakfasts and boutique operations (where Hotel Hell's Gordon Ramsay directs more of his own focus) don't rate the benefit of the doubt, either.Hotel Hell Clip: SpeechlessHotels are getting away from comforters (at least if they're any color other than white): they don't like to have to launder them after each guest, and those hotels that don't wash them each time are falling into disrepute for not doing so.Blankets are here to stay, however, and nobody really wants to see them go. But some hotels are still hesitant about washing them every day if they think they can get out of it (e.g., unless a visible stain appears - and sometimes those get missed.)Throw it Out the Door (link to video)This is what the beds in your hotel room should look like.I agree with Anthony Melchiorri - every foam comforter on a hotel bed anywhere in the country should be rounded up, put in one big pile, and burned.A few safety and security items: If you are a government employee traveling on business, and you don't notice a sprinkler head in your room, pick another hotel next time. FEMA-compliant hotels must be sprinklered: your stay at a hotel that isn't FEMA-compliant is technically not reimbursable by the government, and you could run into problems with your travel reimbursement.Check the peephole in your door. If it's damaged or it has been tampered with, ask for a different room.The only thing particularly newsworthy about the violation of ESPN's Erin Andrews by a stalker in 2008 was that it happened to someone as famous as Erin Andrews (whose name and nude body, sadly, is now forever associated with hotel room peepholes, as you'll see . . . ). A Google Image Search for "hotel room door peephole", or "hotel room peephole", will usually reveal not only some of the infamous peephole cam views of Erin Andrews, but several other women as well who were victimized in similar fashion (some of whom may not know even now that they were victims of such a thing) -- and even links to websites where, if you're a pervert, you, too can order your very own peephole cam.Send me a receipt for your purchase, and I'll send you a five-dollar rebate on it. It's worth that much to me to know who you are, so if you ever show up in a hotel that I'm running, you will not be allowed to rent a room, and you (and your pervert cam if you brought it) will be forthwith ejected from the property, never to return . . .Don't believe me? Run the search and see what you see. (hotel room door peephole | hotel room peephole - Google Search In addition to Erin Andrews, you will almost always see one or two women other than Erin Andrews, as well as an occasional naked guy. Forget Hotel Impossible - I learned something new simply composing this one answer, simply doing an image search for a picture of a peephole to place below . . .) It is not an everyday occurrence - but it is still a not uncommon one.After you check your peephole to make sure it's not damaged, missing or tampered with, find a piece of notepaper (there should be some on the desk or nightstand in your room), tear off a strip of it, roll it up and twist it until it's about the size of a cigarette butt, and 'plug' it in the peephole. (Not too deep: we'll have to gouge it out of there, and you'll want to be able to pull it out yourself if someone knocks on the door). If you do get a knock, always check via the peephole: if you see no one there, do not open the door -- use the thumb lock and deadbolt it, and call the front desk. If a member of the hotel staff has any business paying your room a visit, the desk clerk should know. A good-intentioned friend showing up for a visit to your room will not stand to one side to avoid being seen through the peephole.Anyone you see loitering about the common areas of the hotel - especially a parking lot or a corridor - is probably up to no good, and in any event does not need to be there. Call the front desk and ask that this person be removed. And if he isn't removed promptly, use a different hotel the next time you're in town. Yes, it's potentially that serious.I look forward to the day when I can tell you to choose only hotels where every employee who has access to guestroom keys is subjected to a complete public records background check, prior to hire, and every year or two thereafter (Nan's Law ). But for now, I can't: it's something I've only seen done by one company other than my own - and they ignore the material they get on the checks.It's sad: Nan's Law has absolutely no chance of ever passing in the one state where it has ever been introduced (http://nanslaw.org/scan001.pdf ): Pennsylvania is the most 'ex-offender friendly' state in which I've ever lived: I feel, irresponsibly so. (The city of Philadelphia bans discrimination in employment on the basis of criminal history unless it's embarrassingly obvious that the conviction has some specific nexus to the job, and even forbids asking an applicant about past convictions. And there are unusual restrictions throughout the Commonwealth on how criminal records may be accessed and used.) I believe in repentance, redemption, rehabilitation and giving some prodigal schnook who's seen the error of his sad, sorry ways a chance to get himself straight, too -- but I'm not trusting the guy with the means, should he so desire, to make a key to a room where you, your wife or your kids may be peaceably (and helplessly) sleeping until it's been quite a few years and I've seen it for quite a few years.Nan's Law should be law. I hope to see more voluntary industry compliance - and as Gandhi suggests, my company will be the change I wish to see in the world. (We have to. It's the law. Really. We had it written into our articles of incorporation when we formed the company - and so now, we cannot legally operate our hotels, anywhere, within or outside Pennsylvania, without complying with it. Aren't we devious? No apologies, no regrets . . .)And finally, that coarse, heavy, slightly undersized 'towel' in your bath isn't a towel - it's a bath mat. Use it. When you take a shower, it goes in the floor to await you as you step out. That tile-and-grout floor can be pretty slippery if you lose any water from around the shower curtain, or if you take a long, hot steamy shower and a lot of moisture accumulates on the floor because it didn't all vent. Even exhaust fans in hotel baths that work -- and frequently, they don't (guests don't think to report a problem with them, and housekeepers forget to check) -- have their limits.If your room has a luggage rack, and it's the nice, upscale one with wooden frame rather than the 'cheap' extruded aluminum frame - don't use the luggage rack. After checking the bathroom floor to see that it appears clean, open your bag there. It's literally safer. Bedbugs love wood. And they don't come from nasty people (think about it: the first thing even the most hygenically-challenged individual is going to do if a bedbug is crawling or feeding on him or her is pick it off), they come from baggage that's been in nasty places. Put the items you plan to take from your bags on other pieces of furniture, and close the bag.Wood - bad.Metal - good.When bedbugs are not feeding on someone's body, they like to hide out in the fluting on a mattress. If the room or the hotel is questionable, here is how to do a really thorough check for bedbugs.Before Hotel Impossible, no one ever gave a heck of a lot of thought to 'high-touch points', bacteria receptacles in a hotel room. (I did see an item a few years ago about how the nastiest, most germ-covered item in any hotel room is the wall-mounted hair dryer in the bath: perhaps because it's something that's easy for the housekeepers to forget to check or to squirt down with disinfectant.) So perhaps it was easy to get a little irritated with Anthony for suggesting that guests pack a can of Lysol in their bag and spray down their telephone and your TV remote, but once he got us thinking about it . . . well, he's right, it makes perfect sense.We're becoming a little more sensitive to things like that now. It was bound to happen anyway - ten years ago, who would have thought anyone would need disinfectant wet wipes and hand sanitizer mounted by the shopping carts at the supermarket? Times are changing: when I was growing up, it was acceptable to smoke just about anywhere you didn't see a 'no smoking' sign, including in a hotel lobby. (At my first front office job, the desk clerks all smoked - and kept an ashtray behind the desk. At my second and third, the rule was, step into the back office and get out of sight with it - and it was at these two hotels that non-smoking rooms were a new thing that I'd never seen before.) Public awareness has increased. Standards change accordingly.Best Western hotels now have an ultraviolet wand on every housekeeping cart that can be passed over germ receptacles, and zap any bacteria present on them (Best Western Hotels use UV wand and black light to sanitize rooms ).Last year, they also went to TV remotes that are waterproof - there is nowhere for germs to hide on one.We've got the technology. Low-paid, expendable help is the weak spot.Believe it or not, there are people in the world who love to clean. (Unfortunately, it's like a law, there's a limit of one or two per hotel, but I try to get at least that many on my housekeeping staff . . .) But these are frequently the exception in even a good hotel, and managers don't help much. Room attendants, people who scrub floors and swab toilets for a living, don't rate highly on the socioeconomic scale, wouldn't take a job doing that if they can get a job doing something else, don't get a lot of respect, and are paid not much more than minimum wage (some hotels in fact consider it a 'minimum-wage job'). And they're treated accordingly. If one quits, or you have to fire one, just go out and hire another piece of meat to replace her.Me, I like to try and pay them a little more than they could make working in a different hotel: that way, I can take my pick of the ones available: take care of them, try to treat them the way I'd want to be treated if my only job option was something like that, and give them a halfway decent working environment, and I shouldn't have too many housekeeping problems. And I've gotten good ones most of the time - at one point, I turned one of the worst hotel housekeeping operations in town at one hotel I ran into one of the best. (See Michael Forrest Jones's answer to How do good hotels always feel so clean and fresh? )But you can't always count upon me running your hotel. The blankets don't get washed in some hotels. The housekeepers rush, they have their quota to make, they get questioned if they take more than a half hour to make a room (or fifteen minutes to service a room occupied by a stayover guest), they skip things. At just so much more than minimum wage, you can only expect them to care but just so much. It's not a rewarding job. Lots of encouragement and acknowledgment is necessary to keep them from burning out.Meanwhile, owners economize, especially in cheaper properties. They underpay the housekeepers. They rush the housekeepers. They don't go behind the housekeepers and inspect the rooms. They have a lot of housekeeping turnover (and new ones miss a lot of things during the time it takes them to get the hang of it). They don't have, or don't use, a proper procedure for cleaning reusable items like glasses or coffeemakers. They don't check - or don't even know - the proper settings on the laundry room equipment. If it's a franchised property, they cheat on property inspections: walk the quality assurance inspector around, keep him or her entertained, and try to point him or her to a few carefully selected and prepared rooms. The inspectors never inspect every room in the hotel, even with a 'good' brand. The owners procrastinate on deep-cleaning rooms as long as they can get away with, even when the franchise organization rules specify an interval. Fortunately, owners like this are in the minority, but it's still a pretty good-sized minority, and all hotels have their weaknesses.So, you have to remember: this is shared space that you're sleeping in. We do what we can to be vigilant, but we can't personally supervise every housekeeper performing every little task. Things are going to get missed, sometimes we can only hope that the thing that got missed in your room this morning won't be noticed by you, and we'll catch it tomorrow. The last person who occupied your room might be someone you wouldn't care to share personal space with.Be circumspect accordingly. As Ken Lim noted in his own answer to this question, a hotel is not a comfortable place for germophobes.TMI alert - Here's a gross-out story for you (hotel housekeeping war stories can frequently be that way), so you might want to stop here.Years ago when I first moved from hourly help to management, part of the process was that I got to help out with all the different departments of the hotel and learn how they work (I'd been a maintenance guy one summer in high school, and in a few part-time gigs since, so I had a head start there). So one day, when the housekeepers were shorthanded and I had to help them out, I got to run ahead of them with a laundry cart, to all the vacated rooms, and 'pull linen' for them. My job would be to strip the beds and put all the linen in a pillowcase. I'd then go into the bath and gather all the terry and put all that in another pillowcase. Toss both into a laundry cart, move on to the next room, save the housekeepers five minutes per room plus however much time they'd spend running back and forth, carting the stuff to the laundry. Oh - and wear rubber gloves for this job. I did that day, but it was still an eye-opening experience. I learned, never, never touch a hand towel in a cheap hotel - or in any hotel unless you have the confidence in the laundry operation of that particular hotel that can only come from insider knowledge. You know where you almost always find a hand towel in any recently-vacated hotel room that was occupied by a guy? On the floor . . . next to the bed . . . about halfway down, maybe a little toward the foot of the bed . . . Same spot in the floor, next to almost every bed occupied by a man, in every room. (And this is usually true whether he slept alone, or whether a couple occupied the bed, I'll leave the rest to your imagination.)Now, are you ready to listen to me about keeping the sheet between the blanket and your skin, if you don't toss them altogether? At least most hotels - every time they make the room - wash any hand towels that were removed from where they were left . . .

To those of you who have left India, what were your reasons for leaving?

I live in France UK USA but I love india this is typical reply who left the india..Well now days the the Patriotism and citizenship of India is almost non- existent…More and more people get educated from IIT and IIM they want to leave india as soon as possible…There typical reply is that best quality work life balance etc etcI got more freedom I can wear shorts no-one bat a eye to me this is freedom i want ,the currency is more powerful I can travel around the world the world euro/ dollar / Kuwaiti dinar , am financially independent I can do job and pay for living which fullfil..Europe is very safe beautiful , it's a heaven on earth 🌎 it's a like dreamOvercrowding I can't travel across the country it's very devastating it's very uncomfortable it's very smellyAnything is allowed if it’s for religion.Logic and scientific evidence be damned because god must be the answer to everything right? Whether your burn ton of mango woods for havan or cut the thousands of goat for sacrifice for God which is non existent .Then people Write this on quora who praising Europe..Climate - Netherlands is a country with moderately warm summers and cool winters, and typically high humidity. During summer, sun rises at 5:00 AM and sets at 10:00 PM. During winter, sun rises at 9:00 AM and sets at 4:30 PM. It took some time for me to get adjusted to the climate and daylight changes. This was a complete different experience for me, since I was used to the climatic conditions in India where the daylight change is almost constant throughout the year.Greeting everyone with smile - I am not sure if this is followed in other countries as well. In Netherlands, when we make eye contact with strangers they will smile and greet even if we don’t know them.Appointments and Punctuality - Appointment is mandatory for any formalities like opening bank account to visiting doctor. Hospitality and the way they treat customers are unimaginable. When I opened my new bank account in ABN AMRO, a dedicated officer spent around one hour to explain me the end to end process followed in their bank. Government employees are very friendly in nature. It’s much easier and hassle free process to get work done like registering new address and getting BSN in the local municipality (aka Gemeente).Public Transport, Roads and Traffic rules - Rules are followed strictly and traffic monitoring is completely automated. Vehicles will stop until the pedestrians cross the road even if there is no signal. Roads are replaced frequently to ensure the quality and safety for transport. From children to elders, everyone use bicycle to travel to school and office. There is a separate track for bicycles in the road. One interesting fact is that the number of bicycles in NL is more than the entire population of dutch. Public transport in NL uses chip card for payment. No need to pay cash, just swipe in and swipe out. People are well behaved and they stand in a queue to get into bus/train.Medical Care - It is difficult to get Doctor’s appointment for common health problems like fever and cold. Paracetamol is the only medicine that is prescribed for all the minor health issues, which can be bought in any super markets. Patients are treated with high class medical facilities if they are diagnosed with any disease and the expenses are bore by the insurance companies. TB test is mandatory for all the expats travelling to NL since they are more cautious about spreading the disease to the local dutch citizens.Food and Eating habits- Dutch people mostly prefer having vegetable salads and fruits for lunch. Beef and Pork is the next preferred meat here after chicken and they don’t usually eat spicy food. Alcohols are sold in all the super markets. Government gives more importance to agriculture, and NL is the 2nd largest food exporter in the world.GDPR Regulation - This is applicable to the entire European Union which came into effect on May 2018. GDPR ensures data privacy and security. Public and Private organizations in EU cannot share personal data without users consent.Preserving Nature - Government gives more importance to save natural resource. We can find canals in every place. There are more than 10,000 operational windmills in the country. NL government is planning to permit only electric cars by the end of 2030 to reduce pollution…Why do you want to leave India, if you do?I want to settle abroad, because in IndiaYou have to conform to nineteenth century standards before loving someone.People belonging to 198 tribes are ‘habitual offenders’ by birth.A man has to carry his dead wife on his back for 10 km to cremate her.The police are busy searching for MLA's buffaloes.The government believes marital rape doesn't exist.We're the fifth largest economy, and we stand below Bangladesh in many social indices like infant mortality rate, maternal mortality rate, etc.You cannot criticise or make fun of the government.Your live in partner can sue you for rape and ruin yourThere are a lot of reasons why I want to leave India and there are reasons I want to stay as well although I am not going to focus on those here. Even though, there will be some points you might not agree on or criticize me for it, I am completely fine with it as you don’t need to agree with all of them. But these are the things I have felt that make me want to leave India and I am sure there will be many who would agree too: -1) Overcrowding – I live in the city of Mumbai and have been travelling in local trains since past 6 years during my high school, college and now job. Local trains are the lifeline of Mumbai and they are the fastest mode of transport in the city during peak hours compared to the highly congested roads of Mumbai. From 7-11 am, CST down line and 5-10 pm Kalyan / Kasara line (same goes for Western Railway), the trains are extremely crowded. Be it the first class compartment or second class compartment, you will be mashed the entire ride. Unless you live near a station from where the train originates,you can kiss your hopes of getting a seat goodbye. If you catch a fast train instead of a slow one, you better pray to reach your destination in one piece and alive because you would pretty sure be hanging near the door the entire time! I love this city and I can’t leave it for too many reasons. Most of the opportunities for employment and academic related are concentrated here. I have access to major railway terminals, an international airport, high class multi specialty hospitals, state of the art malls and entertainment complexes, etc. There are lot of advantages of living in a city although there are lot of disadvantages primarily being overcrowding. There are no or minimal problems related to that in developed countries. Many would argue that public transit is poor in US when compared to India, but the economy of countries like US has adapted to a driving culture with excellent road infrastructure and low gas prices. I can’t travel by car in India regularly where oil prices are so high and road quality is so low.2) Dirt and Filth – I have been on foreign trips and to those people who haven’t, let me tell you its an eye opening experience. The moment you step off the tarmac and take in the view of the alien land, you can truly see what cleanliness and organization of public infrastructure looks like. The absence of pan-stains on the sides of the train or streets, proper streets for people to walk on without hawkers or bus stands or stray dogs, proper signs and paint marks for speed breakers, speed limits, stop signs, destination boards, etc. just makes you feel why there is no such thing in your country. Millions of people pay taxes and more than that is spent because of which we have a fiscal deficit yet we don’t get the privilege of such basic infrastructure that is the norm there. There are dustbins at regular intervals with special tray for cigarette butts, the garbage is segregated at the source and treated at the end. On the other hand, Deonar dumping ground in Mumbai is way overfilled from its capacity with no segregation and no treatment. Ragpickers get diseases and hurt on a regular basis and fires are frequent that just pollute the already polluted air. I have been diligent with cleanliness –I keep my litter in my bag until I can dispose it off in proper bins, I recycle all the paper and bottles and clothing (which I donate to the needy), I keep food wastage to a minimum, etc. Yet I see people littering, spitting, throwing garbage be it a poor uneducated man or a rich dude in an Audi – Can I change everybody? No.3) Sanitation – I really appreciate PM Modi’s Swacch Bharat Abhiyan and I think it is high time in this country we make each and every person have access to proper clean toilets. As I live in Mumbai, let me tell you the usual scenario. Before we go out anywhere, unless its somebody’s house it is imperative to have bladder check because you never know if you might find a decent toilet or not. Its ironic but a person in emergency would go to a mall made by a private company than use a public toilet. A person would use a toilet in McDonalds (literally everywhere especially near stations) than use one at railway stations. I lived in one of my cousin’s hostel for a short period of time (It was a public university) and the washrooms were downright disgusting. They stank of putrid smell even before entering, commodes were overflowing and water was scare. I just pitied the people who had to use it in emergencies.4) Moral Police & S*x – India is the land of 1.2 billion people. The place where Kamasutra originated. The place where we see porn among idols near various ancient sites and sculptures. Yet, we CANNOT talk, see, hear or even show a remote connection to sex! Sex Education is a joke here. We turn our heads when we see a condom commercial with family. We beat up and mentally torture the kids watching porn rather than teach them. Do you know just to what EXTENT people are dumb about sex? Just read the sexpert column in Mumbai Mirror by Dr. Mahindra Watsa and see the kind of questions out there. I admire Dr.Watsa’s wits and patience to answer such questions with grace and knowledge. I don’t condone any sort of public love making or indecency yet it is shameful to even hold hands or let alone hug a person from the opposite gender in a public place. I could be hugging my very own sister and people would stare at you as if you just committed a sin right there! There are reports that police barged in on couples in hotel rooms and charged them with public indecency!Yes, you heard it right! HOTEL ROOMS, for god’s sake! Is there any place left for 2 lovers in this overcrowded city for some privacy! Are they affecting ANYBODY by being alone in a room where NO ONE can see!5) Traffic rules – We wear helmets to avoid getting caught and pay a bribe. We go way ahead of line when the signal countdown is less than 20 and almost across the road by the time it is less than 10. We change lanes without indicators or use a one way road for our 2 way benefit “ki sab chalta hai”. I was once stuck in an intersection in Chicago and the discipline of the drivers was so awesome that as 2 road conjoined into 1 lane,the traffic would move in a way that one car would move from 1st road then another car from 2nd road then next car from 1st road and so on… It was such a beautiful system yet I could never imagine such thing occurring here. People ram and budge into corners as if saving that extra 2 seconds is going to save a life. I have seen autorickshaw drivers showing hands and legs as indicators as if the purpose for the lights on the vehicles was for aesthetics.6) Corruption & Bureaucracy – This factor has highly come down in India yet it has a long way to go. From getting a passport to getting a big real estate project passed, every stage of India’s administration requires a “karcha-paani” to get things done. The only advantage is it gets things done faster if the bribe is good enough. Otherwise, the duties and responsibilities of people that are obligated to do this work are not only going to delay or permanently rest on the matter but also ask you for more and more as the work increases. This is frustrating, shameful and at times impossible to work with. I understand some government officials are paid less and they should get a salary hike but not at the expense of common public in the form of corruption and biasness. The MPs are demanding more and more salary on top of numerous perks they enjoy and common government servants are struggling with their normal pay.7) Festivals – I am going to get lot of hate for this point and I am sure lots of people admire and enjoy Indian festivals with jest and heart filled joy. Many of the NRIs return to India because they miss the color and atmosphere of festivals abroad. I enjoy them too but most the times they are headaches. Diwali, the festival of lights is to be celebrated with sweets and family. We do that but we do more. People burst firecrackers that last all night with the decibel levels only going louder every year! You can’t drive safely on the roads because slum children use it as their playground and you never know when a sutli bomb might just burst below your car’s fuel tank! The air pollution goes off the charts and many people suffer respiratory problems. Ganesh Chaturthi – People purchase non-biodegradable idols made of PVP and blare loud music of holy songs all day and night! The idols are then submerged in water polluting them. Noise is common during Janmastami, Ambedkar Jayanti and Navratri as well. A person can’t have peace of mind during those days. Students have study leaves during festivals and have exams immediately after and they can’t study. People returning tired from work can’t sleep at night because of loud music. The pandals are set up right in the middle of the roads and traffic goes haywire. The idols are transported from the pandal to a pond or sea kilometers away on roads with slow speeds and crowd of people blocking every inch of space that driving is nightmare. What if there is an ambulance or a fire truck stuck in traffic? Somebody might just die and no one would realize or care.8) Purchasing power – We earn in rupees and spend in dollars! Smartphones costs upwards of 50K, laptops – 70K, Trousers, shirts, T shirts – 1 to 2K, Pants / jeans – 2-3K. A decent 2 BHK apartment in better neighbourhood in Mumbai would cost no less than 2 to 3 crores. A car costs upwards of 4 to 5 lakhs. How many people can boast of an income to sustain a livelihood with such prices? Fresher from good universities start with barely 4 to 4.5 lakhs of income. Even with a 10-15% rate of increase p.a., its going to reach 15 lakhs in 10 years. Can you sustain a family in a metropolitan city? Can you save enough for higher education, marriage (which is again such a big deal here), retirement? People work for hours on end and get paid in peanuts. There is no law or regulation to prevent the number of hours a day a company can milk an employee.9) Slow Internet – One of the frustrating reasons in the digital age is the slow internet speed. It is slowly improving and there are fiber networks being set up and 4G just launched yet the internet is pitifully slow at many places. The mobile data charges are through the roof and yet the quality is shameful.10) Customer Service – The customer service in India is pathetic. Be it big e commerce companies like Flipkart, Snapdeal or telecos like Vodafone, Reliance or even computing companies like Apple. My macbook malfunctioned within days of purchasing and it took innumerable phone calls, visits to service center and 2 months to replace it with a new one. I have relatives and friends in US where they submit a faulty phone or device and it is replaced over the counter with no questions asked and no charges. Amazon USA accepts returns of products upto 30 days after purchasing and even if you have used them because for them customer service is number 1 priority. Although it is not advisable to exploit such good policies.11) Quality of Education – Why do so many middle class Indians go abroad to do their masters? Why do they not study in IIMs or IITs?- Reservations – SC/ST/OBC and god knows what other castes are there that just being born into one of them entitles you admission into premium institutes with low or no grades and other governmental benefits. A general candidate working much harder and having much dire financial traits won’t get into them because his caste is different. Why would somebody want to tolerate this system?- Campus – Have you seen the campuses on some of the foreign institutes? They are just worth the money. The mess and the libraries in campuses across India except for few top institutes are just dirty, dinghy and not worth the money. The hostels are crumbling, the food is stale and unhygienic and libraries don’t have enough books. The labs have outdated equipment, the faculties are sometimes least bothered and budgets are low.- Research – Many students who want to pursue further research into their field or phD find foreign institutes much better in terms of support, faculty, equipment and funding. This encourages them and makes the work easier and more productive.12) Weather – This is not a negative point for India but the weather in lot of foreign countries is lot more pleasant and cool. The temperature never goes to the extent of 40 to 45 degree Celsius as it does here (Summer 2016). If a person prefers colder climates over hot and warmer ones, foreign countries would appeal to them. The temperature in US can go really down in winters and that would be frustrating too but its really a choice between cold & hot.13) Public Service – Have you seen an accident on road and how people gather around, who does no one come forward and help? Or if you see some injustice happening in front of your eyes, would you help or think twice? Some Samaritans do help and take up the mantle and help our society but why are they so few? Why doesn’t everybody help at the first instance? You can’t really blame the people. They are just victims of the “system” in place. The commonplace excuse – “Mein aise sab chakkar mein nahi fasna chahta”. And its true! People are scared to file a complaint in police stations fearing the cops will ask untoward questions. The justice system lags so bad that perpetrator won’t see the bars anytime soon and that too for a short time. Pizza reaches faster than ambulance! Maybe it’s the traffic,maybe it’s the response time, maybe its something else but in the end the victim suffers and dies sometimes. Is there anyone to blame? Nope.In the end, I would just like to say that I am NOT against India or Indian people in any way. These are some of my experiences and facts that I feel make me want to leave India. Its really a personal choice and that shouldn’t make somebody unpatriotic or any less Indian. Migration from India is high and increasing day by day, maybe some of these problems are the reason and maybe they are not. Its high time we fix them and let the country progress towards becoming a developed nation. There have been lot of positive changes in the past 2 years and I hope they continue to do so. Hopefully someday we won’t have any of the problems mentioned above by me! :)Before answering the real question I want to tell you I am a proud Indian who loves her nation like all other Indians.I am doing MS from Germany.let me elaborate why I left India and why I don't regret it.I was a software engineer in one the best IT firms in the world and was working there for more than two years in last two years I was earning well but did not had a single increment. Yes that's right not a single increment while my US counterparts who joined with me got promoted in front of me. Not because i was not deserving but because Indian IT population is cheap labour for the world.Infact none of the people who joined with me got any increment.Indian team members used to work in shifts as we were working with cloud services but there was no such concept for US counterparts. I used to work in odd shifts which either used to start in 6 in morning or used to end in 11 in the evening but US teammates would come to office by 10 am in normal working hours. ( trust me that is dream company for any software engineer)US counterparts would simply get all the public holidays be it thanksgiving ,Christmas etc but we in India had to work even on days like diwali, holi (although we were paid three times of salary that day ). I still remember the day I had to fight with my manager for an off on Rakhi day.I got frustrated within a year , I started looking for options. All my colleagues who joined with me were either studying for Cat or were going to US for MS.I had friends who gave two to three attempts of CAT and GATE but still could not secure the admission ,thanks to reservation system and amount of competition you face to get into IITs and IIMs.I didnt want to waste my two years preparing for Cat.Many friends actually switched to GMAT from CAT. I didn't had money to goto US school as the expenses were very high. I found about Germany that there is no tuition fees there and two to three universities there are actually among top 50 universities in the world.I aimed those three universities and gave necessary exams,GRE and TOEFL.I applied to universities and I got admit from all of them thanks to my good marks in exams and good btech grades. Had i tried to secure admission in India it would have easily taken me one two years. I chose Germany not because India does not have quality education but because I didn't had time and patience to prepare for entrance exam to get into college. Getting into IIM or IIT is way more tough than getting admit from ivy league. (I know people who were rejected by IITs but are in MIT, UCB and Caltech.)So I left India and it's been close to 8-9 months and I am loving it here because of following reasons1. I am in one of the best universities of the world with no tuition fees. I am doing part time in software company for my monthly expenses ( had I been in IIM I would have to spend atleast 15 lakhs plus my living expenses,iits too have huge fees and no part time of course)2. I can travel to any country in Europe with my EU visa, Europe is breath takingly beautiful and clean( India is of course very beautiful but not very clean plus not very secure for a girl to travel alone)3. I get to meet multicultural people in my dorm and university coming from all parts of the world. (I have hungarian ,greek ,pakistani ,palestinian , german ,indonesian,afghani flatmates.and this is not possible in India.There are two Pakistani guys who are my flatmates and we are best friends, in India I could not even dream of having friends across the border because of obvious reasons.)4. Lot less competition to find jobs and lowest unemployment rate( here there is good demand of IT engineers and very few available :) , reverse is the trend in India )5.Great education system , no cramming ,amazing projects and amount of practical knowledge you get is unparallel. (Lot of cramming I had done during my bachelor's and lot less practical knowledge)6.Very low crime rate. I travel anytime I want and nothing has ever happened to me.(you can not think of taking a metro in Delhi at 11 in the night)7.lot less time in getting your office work (here you can activate your bank account, extend your visa, apply for residency permit ,get your semester ticket from four different offices in half day. In India we all have faced inefficiency in government offices at some point or other but yes things are changing now :) and we have long way to go )8.You won't feel pollution in your daily life here.In Delhi and other big cities pollution level is so high that you never know when you will get asthama.9.Law and order well enforced ( people can't get away with crimes.In India we all know fates of celebrities like Salman khan and billionaires like Vijay mallya ,nothing will happen to them )10.0 interference ( people won't interfere in your business ,in India every neighbour and distant relative would worry about my marriage)11 No show off ( people are simple, and don't do things just to please or show off to society.. Whereas we all know how much people in India would spend just on a wedding to maintain their status in society ,some people are so insane that they would even consider taking loan for marriage ceremony alone. )11.I have freedom to wear anything without fear of being judged or teased.So due to these reasons I think leaving India was good decision.Why do many Indians want to leave India to settle abroad? Why is ownership of the country almost non-existent among today's youth?How is the life of Indians who settle abroad (US, UK, Canada, Australia or New Zealand)? What’s their daily life like? Is it better? Is it worth separating from their friends, relatives and country? What do they miss? Do they want to come back?How could I get out of India permanently? I literally wasted my youth just fighting for food, water, and electricity. I mean, are we living in the stone age where man still has to spend most of his time surviving?If this question would’ve been asked a couple of years ago, I may have had a different answer.But truth to be told I do want to leave. Now as I’ve read in many of the answers written by hundreds of people like no opportunity, no career, corruption etc etc. I just want tell a short extended story, so please bear with me if you are actually reading this answer out of the hundreds of answers given by various smart and mature people.The story begins in my school in 10th standard . me along with my two bro like best buddies, let’s call them S and D. So we had lot of fun in 10th and after boards it was time to take our first career move like any other Indian student. It turns out both of them wanted to become a doctor so they opted for Biology in 11th standard and me the aimless wanderer took maths Science (Courtesy of good board marks and xyz relatives advice).Fast forward 2 years later. Both of them got admission in 2 private medical colleges and I got into Computer Engineering.Things went well and we stayed in touch. As they continued their MBBS, two major incidents took place which started changing my views about not leaving the country (because I was so damn patriotic).Incident 1-S was studying MBBS in a college in Madhya Pradesh. All went well and suddenly one day, when he went home for holidays, the police entered his home and detained him for allegedly cheating in the MP PMT exam AKA the Vyapam Scam. He was earlier told that his student status might be in jeopardy due to it, but he never expected cops to be on his door.Now you might think he cheated, he deserved it, and you are only saving him because you are his friend etc etc. Truth to be told, yes I’m his bro, and that’s the reason I know that he did not cheat, fuck moral, that guy doesn’t even have stomach for it. And still if my word is not enough, then his mark sheet speaks for itself, the guy from who, he “cheated” had less marks then him (not just 2–3 marks, the difference was more then 10).The aftermath was worse. All the students (around 1200 of them) were released but their admission cancelled till the case was over. Which took over a year, between this all the murders started happening in the case and it became a media circus, which lead the inclusion of CBI. This lead to further delay of over another year as CBI was short of resources and they had to look into every student.S was shocked, sad, depressed and his condition was getting worse everyday, still that guy had faith in judicial system. Well it failed him, along with all the other students, when supreme court cancelled their admission. The criminal investigation still going on the students.Incident 2D as I mentioned also got admission in a college of Madhya Pradesh for MBBS . (By now you people might have understood we are from Madhya Pradesh). So D is studying in this college, he knew about S and he use to thank god everyday for not placing him in the wrong exam hall in the wrong time. We both always supported S and tried to cheer him up almost everyday.One day D called me and told that a student, one of his classmate died of heart attack. We felt bad until he told us the whole story.He told us that the guy had some problem of chest pain and went to see the doctor in the hospital, where he was told to get admitted in the hospital. As he was a student he had special hospital fee waiver, but the hospital did not admit him as he did not had his Student ID with him at that time. He went to his flat and by the time he decided to come back with his ID, he suffered a heart attack.Now again you can say it was his mistake, but not admitting him in hospital was a sheer negligence and if a medical student can face this , you can only imagine what others might face.Now these two story may not have exact date or exact case, figures etc. But I know for a fact that this happened. The two basic thing i.e.e Medical and Law services, that any person might need at any point of emergency in his life. I’m sorry to say but both of these things in our country are “Bhagwan Bharose”. I’m sure you can’t disagree, because this is not the first story you have seen about corruption or negligence in our country.I’m not saying that our country is bad, or as today’s trends say, I’m not an “anti national”. It’s just that I want to live a simple life with my family and friends. And neither do I want to settle or adjust in thee two basic needs nor do I want to become a crusader to fight against injustice and come out of top(if you think that’s coward or un justified just google these names - Satyendra Dubey, Shanmugam Majunathan and many more).Sharing some of real life incidents which prompted me to take this decision:Case 1:Walking in East kailash at 10:20 PM talking on my phone; two guys on bike hit me on my head with a Rod; I fell, Took my mobile; I was in pain bleeding on Road (Not so profusely); several vehicles passed, nobody stopped. Two guys came talked to me and helped me in standing up; and then said "भाई आप लकी हो, लास्ट टाइम बंदा ऊपर चला गया था इसी रोड पे… "Came back home, broken. I was living with my friends then, all working in MNCs. Went to police station, asked me 100 questions and then.. I didn't hear back anythiOk,now lets be honest for a moment.My background: Indian male in mid 20s graduated from prestigious engineering institute (hope you get it), working in an investment bank in a metropolitan Indian city. Have had couple of short trips to some developed nations in the past.These are the reasons why I want to leave India for a couple years and then come back.Money: Yeah. lets accept it. Single biggest reason, the dollars $$$. I mean, I am drawing a salary in the top 1 percentile among my age group, still I can't think of buying a house in the city I live in. If I take a loan, I'll have to literally shell out a major chunk of my salary in the EMI. On the other hand, an Indian even in an average job working in US can save enough to buy it. We have a weak currency and hence the relative cost of living in Indian cities is comparably higher.Prestige: If you go back 15 years, going or living abroad was not common for an average middle class Indian and hence there was a prestige associated with living abroad. This is the philosophy we have been fed since childhood that living in USA is the "cool" thing to do. Even today, may be subconsciously, we all have a sense of prestige associated with visiting or living abroad, which is why you see the first thing anyone does when he/she visits any foreign country is facebook check-in at the airport and then continuously upload pics.,Better quality work: Be it any field, this is the sad truth that all the better quality jobs in most fields simply don't exist in India. If you want to do some challenging quality work or some cutting edge research, there isn't much opportunity in India. Thankfully, this is changing and we see some better opportunities slowly coming to India also.Experience: This is another big reason. We have been living in India since childhood and now in our youth, we want to experience living in a foreign place which is culturally/socially/economically different. Moreover, if you want to live a non-conventional life, for example if you are LGBT, or if you want to stay unmarried for long etc. then it would be better to live abroad where you have more individualistic freedom and would be better accepted.I can't say about others but for me I'll never want to live permanently in a foreign country. I mean this is the place I belong to and identify myself. My family lives here and I can't spend my entire life as an outsider in a foreign land. So what I wish to do is live in any foreign country for a couple of years (5-6 years max) and then save enough to come back and live a peaceful life here in India. I know many would argue that once you stay abroad for a couple of years, you would not like to come back but I don't know about future and this is what I think now.Regarding the many problems that others have pointed out, ofcourse there are problems but its not like you are living in hell. India is still a very nice place to live in, especially if you earn decent enough. I mean we have been living in India since childhood and have thoroughly enjoyed it. Things are changing and we can all expect to live in an even better India in the future. So I could be wrong but I see these reasons given by others as more of "excuses".A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.- J.P. MorganYou complain that a guy with lesser marks or more money was given admission to that medical seat which you deserved and you would have loved if the admissions had been purely on merit, fair enough. Now lets go out of India and see what happens elsewhere. Lets talk about US, lets take one of the best universities in US so lets take the example of none other than Harvard Business School. One would have assumed that the admission to the best business school in the world would be based purely on merit. The answer is No.Its a known fact that factors like Nationality/Race/Gender plays a much bigger role. The reservations at these top institutes goes in the name of "diversity benefit". A candidate from, for example, Uganda has a much better chance than a much "better" candidate from India. I would not even point out that the GMAT scores of Indians/Chinese candidates in these schools are much above the class average as then someone would point out that the admissions to these schools is based on a 'holistic' picture and not necessarily on numbers. Still, whatever the criteria you may take for "merit", almost all applicants/students/alumni/admission consultants would agree that the admission process is much much harder for Indians/Chinese especially for Indians. They would rather take a supposedly "lesser" deserving candidate if he/she is from an under-represented minority.Think about it, why should a candidate suffer if he/she is from India, a candidate from Africa/Europe who is getting admitted might be much richer with better exposure and resources. Moreover between a guy and a girl with similar profile, they would obviously admit the girl. However, if you are not from an "under-represented" minority and you do not have stellar stats,its not the end and you may still make it, you know how? if you come from an influential political family or your parents have donated millions to the school. (Jyotiraditya Scindia is a Harvard economics and Stanford MBA alumni)The idea of this comment is not to demean these institutes or complain about their policies. I totally respect them and needless to say almost all candidates admitted to these schools are well deserving. I am just trying to put things into perspective for you. You are living in a bubble if you think the world is fair.Oh absolutelyI wrote this piece over three years ago —And it still holds true.The reason for it isn’t that I don’t love my country. On the contrary, I have been, and still am, astounded by the fact that this country, an eclectic amalgam of various languages and cultures continues to survive and prosper, despite having little in common with most of the others except for a shared history of oppression. I am amazed that a country that has <2% of the world’s areLong before I was an adult, I always thought I would stay in India till my last breath. However, growing up has made me encounter problems which I don't want to face at all.1. Education woes.I am a student of an NIT. The entrance exam was a lot tougher than what is taught here. The quality of education is abysmal. There are hardly any permanent professors in my department. We are taught by some contract faculty who are least interested in teaching.Once, in the third semester, a thermodynamics teacher said this:"Now, since we all know that when pressure is constant, work done by the gas is zero, so the answer here is zero."For a few minutes , we were too bamboozled to believe that she had said this. To our utter amazement, this followed:"In adiabatic process, the change in internal energy is always zero."That class led to a huge disappointment. Most of the major things are taught in a pathetic way, with all the prestigious students losing interest in studies.All we care about are MARKS. And SGPA. It disheartens me so much. It's so depressing to be present in a system where you are judged by your grades and grades come by remembering a few facts in the subjects. No logics.2. CorruptionIt's everywhere. Not just in politics or government sectors.I know a few people around me who completely support the cause of corruption.The reasons given by them are so selfish and amoral that they might make you weep there and then.I get to see it in so many forms and at so many places and there's nothing I can do but feel helpless about it absolutely.In college fests, when you go for a driving license, in order to get your name first in a waiting list at a doctor's, railways, food checking, the infrastructure of the college.Everywhere. It's fucking everywhere.3. Let's say no to PDA.Even if you are found with a person of an opposite gender at a secluded area, the chances of you getting caught by the police for "unethical actions" is pretty high.Forget holding hands or kissing (that's a serious offence) - you can't even walk close.People charge you at the cost of your privacy.Sick and disgusting.4.Security issuesIf a woman wants to be safe (doesn't want to be sexually harassed in any manner) she should :1. Dress "decently" and "properly". Preferably, cover everything possible except the eyes. Oh no, wait! Eyes too. Put on sunglasses.We don't want our menfolk to be aroused.2. Come back home before sunset.3.Shlouldn't date. And shouldn't have any male friends.4. Never travel alone5. Remain silent to all the lewd remarks and make no big issue of the ogling. You're a woman. Deal with it.6. Don't let her pursue higher education because that might make her want to work. What's the need ? Stay at home.If she still gets raped, she has got to be truly characterless. You see, it's never the rapist's fault. Never.Note: If you didn't get it, that's sarcasm above.5. Politics and government.No matter which party you vote for, there would be some amount of electricity cuts, extremely bad roads at certain places, less water supply, poor administration, disorganization, empty promises.No matter what amount of taxes we pay, we won't see their true utilization.6. Overlapping social differences.We have started the Mars mission. But we are still not sorted with the issues on the Earth.Even in the present modern world, we greatly take into account religion, caste, creed, regionalism. Forget inter-religion marriages, the society doesn't even approve of inter-caste marriages !Before falling in love, make sure that your lover is of the same religion.And the same caste, and the same sub-caste and the same sub-sub -caste ! :D7. Pressurized living.With the ever increasing population, increases the competition.Competition so high that it makes you cry. It's worse because it's not even fair.Now read and listen very carefully!No matter what you individual Indian think or crave for the but INDIA IS GOING TO FELL MORE AND MORE..Learn from HITLER , STALIN , MAO , CHINA , GERMANY , JAPAN , this country country destroyed in world war again and again leader raised filled heart of people with Patriotism nationalism they become Major economy power in the WorldThis land Bharat varsha is epic history of ravanna and Rama , even the ravaana was most evil guy in the world he Controlled 9 realams , different planets most powerful , after death of ravanna the Rama said to his brother to learn from ravanna …May be mao , Stalin , Hitler , imperial Japan worst monster dictators but we have to learn..You see in history back in time the Europeans are butchering each other in name of superiority , religion , money , now they achieved everything power economic development , technology.. You see when Germany economy was getting collapse , Hitler raised captured nearby land forced people to develop technology but not in case of india it's same peasent for centuries …When I say diversity is not strength , religion is waste in 21st century , you need better genetic / genomic , wipeout culture And different languages , wipeout 100 crore population of india to have good life , people take it as threat..The problem with Indians is they get very defensive and never really implement solutions for these problems. You can say the lack of credibility in some of the links ive used. But the truth still remains the truth whether you like it or not. Only a coward would run away from it. Usually Indians will get politically correct as people have posted above and brag about the accomplishments of a tiny minority of East Indians. But for a better India we have to accept the reality of us as a people. Political correctness is just a form of cruelty because you can only believe a lie for so long.No matter run as far as you can run .. no one will Stop you … ( how long you can jump over the hardwork of ancestor of Europeans by ditching your ancestor of your own may be didn't worked hard as Europeans)Country is builded by it's people not by someone else… if again this country lost sovereignty to its own people or any foreigner enslaved , killed , starved to death it will solely problem of Indians who never worked for country..remember overpopulation also can kill nation and motherland where mother can't able to feed you.Youu're enslaved by your own mentality , or more you're enslaved by your own moral value , religion , government , prejudice , discrimination …w.eak people will fail get colonised , conquered , face death… never know what will happen…This is dream’ of every 2nd indian who don't like tradition ,ritual , religion , living standard , patriotism , their own ancestor … now days I think..Sacrifice for freedom from British Empire , we thinked that we can have best government which is better than British but eventually it become false , people love to live in USA UK Canada which are British colony And heavily influenced by British culture tradition rituals , so no matter it's bound to happen ..Jhansi , bhagat Singh , many more…This people thinked that we will great if we get rid of British and establish our government but this all things become turn to become worse …When Churchill said this… that Indians are breeding like rabbits which will cost Thier future in mass hunger , starvation everyone get angry but anyone tried to learn from enemy… NOPEAnyone tried to learn from enemy never ever never .. even your god Rama told his brother to learn from his enemy Ravana , did any did this??? NopeDid anyone learn nope.. this is why I admire Chinese , Japanese so much..Eventually people faithfully accept this I don't any problem. Wearing suit , speak English Japanese french , but ask who yourself who you are?..Our country name is Bharat or Bharat federation not India..

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