Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Honesty!

A mobile phone rings in the parliament, the speaker asks the "culprit" to hand it over to the marshals and no one does.

This, a day after they discussed witnesses turning hostile in Jessica Lal murder and Best Bakery trials.

A friend asks me what I intend to do after my MBA, I tell him I want to work in the social sector. He says "So that’s what you wrote in your essays. What do you REALLY want to do?"

My roomie is hit from behind at a signal. Falls. Few bruises. Before he is up on his feet and lifts his bike, the car's gone.

Someone puts a spoon in the office microwave. The thing just blew up. Charred black. No one admits to it.

And no one's surprised.

No one's surprised because we are culturally dishonest.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think it would be wrong to say "culturally" dishonest. May be "socially" dishonest...
Tai

Swapnil said...

Culture is snapshot of a society, its beliefs and actions, at a given point of time.
Culture is often mistaken with Tradition.
Which is culture as it was sometime in the past.
We (And by we, I mean most a Indians) tend to believe that you take centuries old values which looks really noble and deem it “Our Culture”
Culture is what you believe and what you do TODAY.

Wundergal said...

A sad reality.. that we have all started to live with, that we've stopped paying attention to - just like a lot of other bad things!!! Very well written post.. hits the nail right on the head - atleast it hit mine for sure....
-S

S said...

hmmm..culturally dishonest i don't know..acquired dishonesty as a part of survival...

Anonymous said...

"Culturally"???? Now thats debatable. Probably a very wrong word used here, or maybe the word is not wrong but the context in which it is used.

Anonymous said...

dishonest and morally incorrect.