I am thrilled to bits by the latest public interest advertisement by Aamir Khan on TV, where he reminds us that though we are exulting over how quickly we are becoming a major player as a nation on the world's stage, we had better change some of our not-so-edifying habits fast if we want to improve our global image, culturally speaking: habits like spitting right and left in public, littering everywhere, and training our little boys to do their soo-soo just about wherever their mummies please. A short while ago, Aamir was exhorting us not to be rude to foreign tourists, or try compulsively to cheat them at every turn. Tellingly, these ads underscore the fact that most certainly it is not just poor and illiterate Indians who indulge in such uncouth and unsocial behaviour.
Kudos to Aamir. I hope many more people will listen to him than to me. I hate to live with the knowledge that I live in a country with some of the worst public manners in the world, despite pretending that most of us are bhadralok...
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