Life is all about choices we make, mostly good and some bad ones. Coming back to India is defintely one of them. Most of us NRIs are in this dilemma if coming back to India will be the sooper move that solves all our issues - social life, sense of well being, maybe even career, entrepreneur ventures which seem hot right now, etc. Well all this may be true but there are some stark realities that we need to grasp.
I has always been thinking that things are terrible but can be got over. The traffic is just terrible, I cannot imagine it taking 45 mins to move from vadapalani at 9 PM to get to Valasaravakkam, 2 kms away – roads are bursting at the seams. Hotels are immensely crowded, in some of them you sit in a table with some strangers in the same table for lack of space – eating is a chore and not a private evening. Truth be told, I am seeing that things have gone from bad to worse. A couple of years back, the traffic after 10 PM was smooth, weekends were almost a breeze with most folks being at home. But now, there is no respite at all times. It does seem like getting back to desh seems a difficult choice to make.
But then I am talking about folks who have a choice - if you have none, might as well enjoy the ride :-)
