Maybe unpopular opinion. Please challenge and correct me if you disagree.
I think Indians at large, but also Tamil people don’t have a strong idea of citizenry. We take good care of our personal stuff, our houses and our properties within our property lines.
Anything outside that, we don’t give a shit. We clean our homes and throw the trash in front of our homes. A cm outside our compound walls are not our problem.
Is that why, we don’t care too much about the dismal standard of public services?
Everyone tries to solve the problems/deficit on their own.
Poor public transit -> let’s just get a car.
Poor security -> let’s just get a cctv
Poor water -> let’s just pay for private water/set up RO plants.
Why don’t we demand more from the govt? Why don’t we take better care of the public goods? Why don’t we work together towards making high quality public goods for all?
If you can control the urge to name-call me on being another entitled NRI and address the content, it’d be gr8!
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