Cultivating Work Ethic and Civic Sense wow gold Ap

Cultivating Work Ethic and Civic Sense

When Dalai Lama was asked what he felt was the main difference between the Chinese and the Indians, he quipped that people here are lazy and need to learn from their oriental neighbour.

I agree 100% and have no qualms in admitting that we are a lazy nation. During a trip to Macau, a colleague and I went to an Italian restaurant where we were served by a woman who was in a late stage of pregnancy. I thought she worked with more alacrity than young, full bodied men of our country; leave alone contrasting her with a pregnant woman here, who would refuse to get off her chair. A lot of how we approach work is in our minds.

In the Indian context, just about anything is a good enough excuse not to come to work or be spared the tough grind.

Work should be done for the sake of it and not because it is a compulsion. We, in India, are ready to drop work at the smallest excuse.

Look at the number of strikes we have… besides the recent Jat blockade, we had in the preceding months a nationwide CITU bandh, strike by Jodhpur doctors, Safdarjung medicos, pilots' stir, teachers' strike, taxis off the streets, to name a few. At a time when dengue had claimed nearly 1500 lives and was threatening to jeopardize the Commonwealth Games, believe it not, there was a strike by Domestic Mosquito Breeding Checkers!

There is a Chinese saying that 'a man stands for long time with mouth open before roast duck flies in'. It basically implies that you have to work to earn a living. And of what I saw, the Chinese have immense respect for work.

Even the sentries standing at guard of Chinese government building stood stiff and straight all through the duty hours without flinching or slumping or even stretching. No sitting on chairs or even leaning on guns. No cups of teas or idle chat.

From shops to train stations to hotels to airports and offices, the Chinese were on their feet and at their jobs.

The result. Contrast the Beijing Olympics and Delhi Commonwealth Games and the answer will be easy enough.

Jyoti Basu had once confessed: "The Chinese say 'learn from the truth'. Just as we were made to read a book on moral science in primary school classes, I think we need to introduce guild wars 2 gold an elementary book on dos and don'ts on etiquette including how to behave in public. Things like not to spit on streets, or stare at people without as much a spot of embarrassment.

We need to be taught to respect our heritage and not litter or scratch names on monuments. Cultivating a sense of ownership could be a way. The people need to actively participate in affairs of the area and have a sense of ownership towards public property.

During the period of Imperial Guptas, the golden age of ancient India, there was immense decentralisation and governance was done wow gold by an innovative method of political and administrative representation and people's participation. The municipal board, responsible for the cleanliness and development of an area, comprised not just government employees but prominent members of that region - like the guild president, chief artisan, chief trader, chief farmer, and, hold your breath, chief journalist!

Look at the way Japan has reacted to a catastrophe of such enormous scale caused by deadly combo of quake and tsunami which has affected their nuclear facilities.

Watch hour after hour of footage and you will see that while the human loss has been enormous, what to say of annihilation of property, but there is no wailing, screaming, or beating of chests. Just a stoic and organized response to a very terrible tragedy.

Best of all, no loot of relief material even in places where humanitarian crisis of the worst kind has unfolded. And definitely no hoarding of supplies by black marketeers.

India is a country of vast resources, high level of human intelligence and a stellar of a history. We could do definitely with a better wow gear work ethic and character.

(This piece on Work Ethic and Civic Sense is part of the Looking Ahead series.)

niki - toronto, canada

Although I agree somewhat with dalai`s statement on indians of past when resources were less. chinese were better in sports fitness proven in olympics its military might encouraged by communist dictates as in erstwhile soviet union to prove to capitalist world they are just as strong. The chinese are way better than anyone in fitness as its a part of their Confucius Taoist philosophy mindset. India can definitely learn from them. long live india.

rupendra rakshit - jagadhri

Dalai Lama`s observation is based on what one see today. In fact Indians and Chinese can not be copared at all on any matter. basically Chinese are ten times more lethargic and corrupt than a common Indian but why and how that act so vastly different from their inherrent character is due to their way of governance. You do not work as per their timings wow po or schedule and you will be arrested and will to Siberia like places where you will work for eighteen hours a day without a proper meal so that you die after few years. Again you indulge in corruption and one fine night at 11 P. M. there will be a knock at your door and that will be the last someone saw you. Does this guild wars 2 gold happen in India. Here if you are very corrupt you can enjoy life like anything. Only you have to be wise enough to have link with every political party and go on paying the share of the loot