Show me a power failure in India and I will point out to you the sheer dependency of people in the Western worlds, on their microwaves and their phones and their computers so that when there is a single power outage in Canada or the US, the city comes to a disruptive stop.
Talk to me in that high handed tone of an expat living within a gated community about the poverty that can be seen on the roads as you drive past in your air conditioned chauffeur driven car and I will point out the drug addicts and homeless people that line the streets of any major metro of the US and Canada.
Tell me about the corruption that seems to stick in your heads around dinner conversations with your other expat friends and how frustrated you are because it drags India down and I will remind you of the very recent financial crisis of North America.
Patronize me with your talks of the good volunteering service you provide every few days with a bunch of other friends and then talk of how you are contributing to the good of India over some expensive red wine at your kitty parties because maybe you think you owe the country that and I will talk to you about the likes of Sunitha Krishnan who after being gang raped at the age of 14 runs a woman organization that has rescued over 300 women. She's been beaten 14 times and she does not talk about that over expensive wine.
Just saying..there is good and there is bad. Across the globe.
Just saying...when you live within a bubble do not judge what lies outside of it.
Just saying...when you get on the plane to go home, you should know what to expect. You've lived it. A fake foreign accent does not change that.
So please don't complain about the pollution and the chaos and the inflation and the roads and all that jazz. And please do not think that having a life abroad now affords you the privileges of passing judgement on everything that you find wrong in India. And please do not claim that it distresses you so much because in my opinion if it really did and you really cared, you'd stay and do something about it.
Just saying.
