There’s a lot that India can and should learn. For example, our terrible lack of civic sense. We think that public spaces are enormous garbage bins, spittoons or even toilets. People are treated no better than these public spaces. We have no qualms about stepping on other people’s toes in order to move ahead in our life. The most terrible vice is what I call the Indian missionary zeal. That is our typical instinct for poking our nose into other people’s affairs and then giving them unwanted and unwarranted counsels. Like the missionary who is consumed by the divine zeal to save souls, we go around seeking what’s to be corrected in the other person’s behaviour. I too possessed this obnoxious zeal for some time in my life. But I was fortunate enough to have too many people around me who possessed it a million times more than I did. So they kept a tab on me with a religious zeal that would have put the real missionaries to shame. And there were the real missionarie
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