"City of Joy" and "A Passage to India" are two movies I saw over the last weekend. Both made by non-Indians and both portraying India and it's people....Or atleast trying to portray...

                      Well, India is no heaven ....when you think unbiased. But what the world beleives India is far more miserable than her true picture..it's what a non-Indian thinks about India . You can't make him get into the spirit of India, after all..... India has been a conundrum to sages and scholars.....

                 Well I don't advocate Indian way of living prescribed by a few people....I myself hardly know about what India is ? Neither do I desire Indianising the rest of the world. I even don't want others to see a glorius but untrue image of my Motherland. We Indians are used to people ,warmth,festivals,monsoon, maybe a little corruption,a little extra emotions and snakes and.......which is alien to the rest of the globe. Not their fault either if they find it a poor,crowded country...a country of fat Maharajas,snake charmers, beggars, mysterious people....not by any means a true picture .Though it's neither entirely unfactual. I want others to know Indians are one of the happiest nation on this earth!!!!

      India is a country like many others.Special to us though.We must learn to think it special before we start blaming the international media,filmmakers,diplomats...after all things won't improve overnight! We must learn taking pride in calling ourselves Indians.Patriotism not only means shouting support for India in an Indo-Pak Cricket encounter or contributing to the noble cause of KARGIL War .... it also means carrying out our duties.

  We must stop shying away from being an Indian.