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They say recession is when the economy has receding growth over two consecutive quarters. By the reckoning of my cynical mind and the analogy of recession impacting ideas - we as a country have been in recession for the past 240 quarters or so.
Leaving all that aside, i was trying to delve my highly amateur and opinionated quasi economist mind i am trying to figure out what do we do to arrest this down slide. I do this most of the time driving.(For the uninitiated this is one activity ) in Mumbai that affords you a lot of spare time.
there have been many options that have been thrown about and bandied around in my mind about why, how and if India will be as impacted as our Big Bosses around the world.
I am unable to come to any sort of conclusion and the reason for why it will and why it wont are just about the same.
Coming back to the title of my piece, Indians love driving , not just cars on what our government lends us to believe are roads - but we love driving each other insane.
We drive with a passion - not one that is borne out of love but more to instil fear in others.
this is exactly the reason why i think there is an opportunity here for all planners, economists and hell even a nice advertising campaign (where mr pande can use his mind and voice to say something to the effect - har driver kuch kahta hai.) to tide over these times.
i have taken an average Mumbaikar / Bombayite as part of my sample survey here because of the whole ommercial capital , city never sleeps, people are enterprising blah blah.
if anyone has seen or experienced driving in Mumbai - the WWE would come a close second in terms of excitement. Amazing manoeuvres, mock fights (notice how everyone just screams, bangs car bumpers with fists), makes strange hand signals when changing lanes OR not amke any signals and even reverse in the same lane during busy traffic. All this because of an innate sense that time is money and expediency is the need of the hour.
Alas, when these same drivers reach work, its almost a let down of sorts. Imagine, silence, a nice seating area with space, tea being served, emails, business , opportunity to earn money, be more organized etc. This is a big comedown from the early morning excitement and late evening too when it is time to head back.
its the same even in buses and trains mind you. the passion to find a seat, stick and armpit here and there and this amazing COMPETITIVE spirit.
i will try and leave the judgment out of this but i just want to ask - imagine, if we had the same passion for work as we did for getting to work and leaving it - India would truly be shining , or would it?
when you get behind the wheel today, think about it.
