From: hsingh@cayley.uwaterloo.ca (Harpreet Singh)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: Sending things to India
Date: 30 Sep 92 20:10:51 GMT
Organization: University of Waterloo

In article <1992Sep26.191714.1670@wuecl.wustl.edu>, rr2@cec2.wustl.edu (Rajamiyer Ravichandran) writes:
> In article <1a2b7kINN3q1@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> sunjain@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (mera bharat mahan) writes:
> >In <1992Sep26.154857.29392@wuecl.wustl.edu> rr2@cec2.wustl.edu (Rajamiyer Ravichandran) writes:
> >
> >(stuff delelted).
> >
> >> I recently sent some GRE and TOEFL preparation materials to my
> >>brother in Bangalore. They were supposed to have delivered within
> >>five business days. But, believe me, DHL took a cool six weeks
> >>to deliver. That too after I threatened DHL, St. Louis to sue them here.
> >>They blamed squarely the delay on the customes officials in India.
> >>However ultimately when the package was delivered my brother ended
> >>up paying Rs. 600 as customs duty. The worst part is somebody
> >>stole the audio cassetes for TOEFL preparation and delivered only
> >>the books. I strongly suspect one of the customs officials who
> >>opened the package did it. He probably knew what is TOEFL and how it
> >>can be useful. There is total dishonesty out there. Come to think
> >>of it there is absolutely no fool proof way to send anything to that
> >>dishonest country, India.
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> >  How dare you call your motherland a DISHONEST COUNTRY?
> >
>    I am dare enough to say what I feel is my opinion. I went
> through it and I can quote more instances like this to support
> my arguement.    
> 
> >  How honest are we?  Tell me. 
>   
>    Speak for yourself. If  you feel guilty that you are dishonest then
>    you don't have the right to deprive other people's opinions on
> the matter of honesty.
> >
> >  Hamam main sab nange hain..
> >
> >  Don't we find ways to find loopholes in the system ourself?  
> >  Don't we cheat the Indian Govt. by avoiding paying taxes and using
> >  all kinds of tricks to convert Black Money to white money??
> >  Don't we still ask the bride's parents for the DOWRY?
> >  Don't we encourage dishonesty by bribing goverment officials to get our
> >  work done?
> >
> >  I am glad you are here. Atleast saved some oxygen there. 
> >  
> 
>    All those circumstances you have raised suggests me only one
> thing. That you went through those and feels guilty about it. I have
> never cheated on taxes to India. I was the first in my office to file\
> tax return. I don't have black money to convert to white in illegal 
> ways. I make my remittences to home through legal bank channels.
> I had a bad cheating experience in that too. That is a different 
> story. By the way I am an Indian citizen still !!. The only way to
> change the system is by raising questions like I did. What you are
> doing is trying to create a holy cow (mother land ...bla..bla)
> so that nobody will dare to raise a queation but things will always
> be in a status quo.
> 
> regards
> 
> ravi ( NOT mera bharat mahaan !!!)

U r not the first person to loose things by mail in India.  That is not 
the reason to call the country dishonest.  Every country has dishonest 
people (bad element).  I have seen this mentality among indians, that if 
anything bad happens then they will start blaming India.  What about in
America and canada??.  Are there no bad elements here???.  

Try to be reasonable before u blame everybody for something that some
dishonest person did.  PLEASE BECOME A CITIZEN OF ANOTHER COUNTRY.  INDIA
WILL BE GLAD TO GET RID OF ONE THE WINERS(cry baby).  

PLEASE DO POST WHEN U LOOSE SOMETHING IN AMERICA, AND then start blaming
the whole country for being dishonest or whatever.  

Singh!!!
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