“Racism reaching its heights in Australia. India protesting by refusing to play cricket with the Aussies.”
“Another Indian student shot down in the U.S by unidentified natives. Rumours claiming racism as the motive.”
The morning daily flooded with such articles on the front page and we are still leaving to the airport to send off our cousin to these estranged islands for working. How impossible can we get???
About roughly a decade back it was a sense of pride to have your son/daughter working abroad. It was a prestige issue for the rich and a capitulated dream of the poor. But today it is a necessity of common man. It is impossible for an Indian family to not have their siblings or relatives in these so called developed countries. The reason though, still remains cryptic.
But is it actually worth risking one’s life just to have a tag of an NRI or to hold a green card in your hand? The growing haphazard everywhere makes life extremely unpredictable. A golden example can be taken from the recent Oz issue. People are running back to India fearing for life. And we natives show our helplessness by protesting to play cricket with the Oz team. I know that it makes absolutely no sense and is no way related but in an attempt to do something we are actually doing anything!
All thanks to our bizarre mentality that even between this chaos you’d still find that MBA-wala bhaiya next door packing his bags for his newly found “foreign job”.
I do not understand what is earned by running away to such alienated terrain, far away from all the things you’ve loved since childhood, working like a slave for hours without your mom there at the end of the day to give you that hot cup of coffee and listen to how your day was. In an attempt to trying to save a few dollars we really end up missing a lot. On one side the fear of losing your job robbing your sleep away and on the other, the anxiety of bringing up your children with “proper Indian values and ethics” tarnishing your peace of mind. India is not bad at all in job opportunities. It’s just this vague fascination of living with the white-skinned that is keeping us away from our mother land.
The final decision still remains open. One may choose to live comparatively secure with a lil’ backup emotionally out here or choose to go out saving dollars at the cost of their lives. A little sense is appreciated though...
“Another Indian student shot down in the U.S by unidentified natives. Rumours claiming racism as the motive.”
The morning daily flooded with such articles on the front page and we are still leaving to the airport to send off our cousin to these estranged islands for working. How impossible can we get???
About roughly a decade back it was a sense of pride to have your son/daughter working abroad. It was a prestige issue for the rich and a capitulated dream of the poor. But today it is a necessity of common man. It is impossible for an Indian family to not have their siblings or relatives in these so called developed countries. The reason though, still remains cryptic.
But is it actually worth risking one’s life just to have a tag of an NRI or to hold a green card in your hand? The growing haphazard everywhere makes life extremely unpredictable. A golden example can be taken from the recent Oz issue. People are running back to India fearing for life. And we natives show our helplessness by protesting to play cricket with the Oz team. I know that it makes absolutely no sense and is no way related but in an attempt to do something we are actually doing anything!
All thanks to our bizarre mentality that even between this chaos you’d still find that MBA-wala bhaiya next door packing his bags for his newly found “foreign job”.
I do not understand what is earned by running away to such alienated terrain, far away from all the things you’ve loved since childhood, working like a slave for hours without your mom there at the end of the day to give you that hot cup of coffee and listen to how your day was. In an attempt to trying to save a few dollars we really end up missing a lot. On one side the fear of losing your job robbing your sleep away and on the other, the anxiety of bringing up your children with “proper Indian values and ethics” tarnishing your peace of mind. India is not bad at all in job opportunities. It’s just this vague fascination of living with the white-skinned that is keeping us away from our mother land.
The final decision still remains open. One may choose to live comparatively secure with a lil’ backup emotionally out here or choose to go out saving dollars at the cost of their lives. A little sense is appreciated though...
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