Showing posts with label Atithi devo bhava. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Atithi devo bhava. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

"Atithi Devo Bhava" ,

"Atithi Devo bhava" This is a very old sanskrit saying, but do we really know the meaning ?

With India reaching in top seven preffered destinations of the world, it becomes our duty to give our atithis (tourists)  a true warm indian treatment. However we often see these tourist take a bad memory of our country.

We put up some of the points that we generaly do when we see a "firangi" walk by :

1.    we stare at them ?
2.    we laugh at them ?
3.    we tease them ?
4.    we overcharge them ?
5.    we abuse them in our language ?
6.    we point them to wrong directions ?

 When actually we should have done is this :
1.  Greet them with a smile (accompanied with a  "Namaste")?
2.  Ask them if they need help ? 
3.  Guide them to their destination and suggest a few more?
4.  Protect them from beggars ?
5.  Save them from touts ?
6.  Help them communicate with locals who do not understand english ?

Remember these few things whenever wherever you see a tourist. The impression they take now, will live on with them for quite some time.
The choice is yours. It’s your India, it should be your responsibility!!

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Delhi Common wealth games village inside pics ....


These are some of the exclusive pics of CWG games village which the government has  kept for the foreign officials. "Atithi devo bhava". Thats my incredible india doing to make us proud. Has our government ever thought how will a fellow indian walk with his head high when he travels to these nations ? 
Is this the India our freedom fighters dreamed of ?
The level of morality amongst the netas class has fallen so much in six decades that they are not bothered about what happens to national interest or prestige. All that is important is earning money.It is more important to be in possession of crores, not where it came from. It does not matter that you jeopardized national prestige or national interest to pocket this money. Yes, another thing has also changed: the tolerance level of people. Not that we were ever an intolerant country. But now you have greater tolerance to wrong doing. It does not matter that thugs could be sitting in important positions in the country.