Wednesday, December 31, 2008

!ncredible India

Always welcoming India where serving is everything. Its hard to describe those endless rice fields and crazy highways where its not uncommon to come across with wild pigs or even elephants. There are more temples than villages and religion plays big role in everyday life. People are speaking many local dialects among 22 official languages and English in bigger places. Its amazing how economically they can live and how over half of 1,1 billion Indians still using fire as primary heat source. Sometimes it feels like going 500 years back in time except people have mobile phones and satellite dishes on mud huts. But pollution and hygiene becomes a real problem and many people dont have access to clean water. Have to be very careful with diseases and take extra care when traveling in remote areas.

Indians work hard and even when quality is questionable they still achieve a lot with their can do attitude. Doing business they always smiling at your wallet not you and trying to trick you in ever step.
Many companies are building factories in India where labor costs nothing and environmental restrictions are absent. In that sense its like highly populated China whos probably gonna lead the economy in long term. There are already more millionaires in Japan than USA.

India is crazy and if you are crazy you like it,
otherwise it might make you crazy ;)

Happy New Year!