Is India's infrastructure still lagging behind?

India's infrastructure is very backward now. There is an article that can reflect the current situation in India. The author said: I feel that India has not engaged in construction since the British withdrew. It's a little long.

Travel in India

On business, I went to India for five days with my colleagues from foreign companies and partners of Chinese joint venture partners, which left a deep impression on India. In a fair way and without hurting the feelings of third world brothers, I am not used to India. In the words that I blurted out without thinking: India is so fucking bad. Originally, I was afraid of hurting the feelings of class brothers, and I didn't want to write it to make my relatives hurt, but my enemies would be quick. Later, all my friends wanted to hear it. After saying it a few times, I really thought it was too much trouble, so I simply took the trouble to write it out so as not to say it later.

For the sake of justice, make sure that you never add any literary embellishment to what you have seen, so as not to be blamed for being unfair, but it is inevitable that you will be biased because of the limited perspective. By the way, just saying what I know is one of the goals I set for myself. Because it is my weakness to brag, jump to conclusions and talk about people behind their backs, I want to overcome this problem.

Sunday

It's not easy to arrange a trip to India. I don't know if it's because of the war with them that China doesn't have a direct flight to India, but it has to go through Malaysia, Singapore and other countries. It will take more than 12 hours to go there.

At Kuala Lumpur Airport, many Indians began to smell sour (I thought it was sweat, but later I realized there was another reason, so I'll talk about it later). There is no concept of queuing when changing tickets. I stand behind a line, and every Indian comes directly in front of me, or directly next to the person who is handling the tickets. However, this is not surprising. My compatriots do not have this quality, and they still account for the vast majority of the population. We are used to it.

at 3 o'clock in the middle of the night, I got off the plane and went to the hall. Hundreds of people lined up in two lines to go through the customs. Probably because it was too late, only two counters had staff, but there were only three counters. The long queue is winding and sour. Bats are flying overhead, and everyone is sleepy. The foreigner in the same trade leaned close to me and whispered, "I miss China already."

My foreign colleagues who have been to India before going out told me to be mentally prepared. The airport in Matlas will be different from any airport I have ever seen. The plane will almost directly land on the road, and then there will be more than a thousand black faces dangling outside. I don't think it's that terrible. At least we can't take bad COP as a negative factor. That's the concept of western developed countries. We are all brothers.

on the way to the hotel, I looked out of the window, but I couldn't see anything. In the following days, it turned out that I couldn't see anything even during the day, because there was nothing at all. Many cows are sleeping on the road. I think everyone knows that cows are gods in India and cannot be killed. There are also many wild dogs, whose eyes are red and seem crazy, which is quite scary.

I went to Chennai, and transliteration in Chinese is not very good. Originally called Madras- Matlas, the fourth largest city in India, not far from the sea. We stayed in one of the two most expensive hotels in that city, 1 dollars a night, plus more than 4 dollars something tax. The experience in the next few days proved that foreigners were completely slaughtered here. Indians have no psychological burden when they see foreigners, so you are richer than us. For example, this one hundred and forty dollars a night, when I booked a room in China, I said, "Everything counts, 1 dollars." When I arrived here, the hotel said, "Everything counts", which doesn't mean paying taxes. The taxes are collected by the state. Very cunning, right?

The hotel room smells of Indian antiquity, and a lot of marble and thick carpets are used. But the bright silver faucet is unscrewed, and the tap water is light yellow with some sand. It rained the next afternoon, and the water at night was dark yellow. Bottled water is available at the bedside. At the advice of my colleagues, I also use bottled water to brush my teeth. The basic principle is not to import any tap water, because India, or at least this city, has no water supply and drainage system.

on Monday,

get up early and go out by car, drive for an hour to the company's factory, and go to the hotel after work at 5 o'clock. The trip in the next few days is basically the same.

As soon as I got out of the lobby, the hotel yard was full of broken cars. The British 193s-style round-headed cars were made by India's largest automobile company (of course, the company is state-owned). My British colleague was happy to see these cars and said that they reminded him of his childhood.

When the car is walking in the street, it can be said that the street view is terrible. Urban infrastructure construction, such as roads, water supply and drainage, garbage discharge, etc., all seem to be the foundation left by the British. It seems that they have done nothing since the British left. The city center is very small, a few streets, which is about the same size as a small county town in China. There are many bungalows and few buildings, and there are no buildings with more than five floors. Bungalows have all kinds of roofs, and there are not a few grass roofs. The building is made of cement blocks. Only a few roads are cement or asphalt, leaving the main road is all dirt roads.

The wall is only shoulder-high, and it is covered with campaign slogans and candidates' heads. Sewage and garbage everywhere.

the road is full of people. At the station, No.1 people can stand all the way to the middle of the road. It's basically a national costume. One-third of people don't wear shoes, and the remaining two-thirds wear slippers with big toes.

There are trees on the roadside, and the sky is still blue, which is less polluted than the big cities in China. But the tail gas on the road smells terrible, and all their cars are of extremely poor quality. Basically, there are no imported cars. Their domestic cars, compared with them, Xiali are all high-end cars. There aren't many cars, but all the cars don't pay attention to traffic order at all. All the cars are scattered on the road and drive at will, regardless of lines or left and right, and sometimes they get in. When meeting, two cars are usually opposite each other, and they don't turn aside until the last second.

the situation is even worse outside the city. Nearly half of the continuous bungalows are grass roofs. There is a pile of garbage on the roadside every 5 meters or so. After driving for an hour, there is garbage on both sides all the time. When people walk on garbage, men turn around when they urinate, and their backs are turned to the road to solve the problem. When women urinate, they turn around, their faces are turned to the road, and they squat down to solve the problem. Some take two steps slightly and squat down to the wall.

Maybe it's because there is no universal education. It seems that Indians have no concept of hygiene at all. For example, there is a pool of rain on the road, and people usually go around it, so people here just step on it, whether barefoot or wearing slippers.

There are cows, sheep and dogs on the road from time to time. The car should go around. As I said just now, the cars are all in opposite directions, and it depends on who is brave enough to hold on, who can occupy the driveway. People often cross the road, motorcycles lead people across the road, animals cross the road, and there is no zebra crossing, so you have to cross wherever you want.

On suburban roads, there are many large trucks, all of which are equipped with chip-controlled horns with tones, and they are very loud. Think about it, there are all kinds of high notes of "5353531", 612316, 612316 "in my ear, and with the trucks flying by, a wheel turns in front of you, stopping you from braking. Then suddenly, not far in front of you, a wheel flew obliquely to the left, revealing an oncoming big truck in front of you. "The cross of Jesus!" The foreigner in the same car screamed. At the last second, the driver of our car was also a wheel, giving up the big truck to the car behind.

nervous, cold sweat.

we have to mention our driver. Brother picked us up in the morning, and when we saw it, we wore shirts, ties, big underpants and barefoot. Seeing that we were all staring at him, I was a little embarrassed, so I got back into the car and put on double toe slippers. I wonder if he wears shoes when driving. We can't see him sitting in the front.

it's like going to heaven when we arrive at our globally standardized factory, which is built according to company standards. Go in and drink water quickly. Our factory has its own pure water station to make pure water.

But in this global standard factory, Indians still stubbornly maintain their national habits. For example, clothes. The lady in the office is still dressed in national costume sari, wrapped like a pillow and sitting in front of the computer. I can't help laughing when I see it. It really feels antique.

Except that the workshop must be dressed according to safety standards, the employees in the sanitation and canteen in the factory are all ethnic costumes. Men are wrapped in rags like dirty sheets and squatting on the ground to weed; Women are sitting on the ground in saris to wash vegetables.

It's time for dinner soon. Let's talk about Indian food.

as soon as I entered the canteen, my face smelled of acid. Before I came to India, I heard that they only ate vegetables and basically didn't eat meat. I thought it was a rumor, but they really didn't eat meat. There are two curry vegetables, two soups, a lot of rice, two cakes, yogurt and pickles for lunch. Smelling the sour smell, I called the food and tasted it suspiciously. The curry in the two curry vegetables is as thick as porridge, and the vegetables are all boiled and sour. The two soups are thin, taste like sea water, and are smelly and salty; Yogurt is ok, but you must put a lot of sugar, otherwise it will be too sour; It's good to throw cakes, like salty biscuits. In fact, foreigners don't eat these meals at all, but only eat two pieces of cake to satisfy their hunger.

I thought to myself that we are all third world brothers and guests, and in order to exercise our adaptability, we boldly began to eat.

I haven't eaten two bites, and I see that all Indians scoop vegetables and soup onto rice with their right hands, mix them with their hands and pinch them to eat. It's disgusting. I know I'm wrong, but I do feel sick physically.

Chinese colleagues in the same trade swear and pay for it.

it took me two days to realize that the sour smell of Indians was from eating these curry dishes. After eating for three days, in the sultry weather in India, the sweat turned sour. In my colleague's words, two weeks after he returned to the United States, he could still smell himself in the shower.

I didn't dare to eat much food. I ate a bunch of dry rice and became hungry at 3 pm. I can't blame the Indian brothers for eating so many meals. There is no time when meat is not enough.

I went back to the hotel after work and experienced another road fright. It's ok to eat western food in the hotel at night. I wanted to go out for a walk after eating, but I didn't dare to go out when I walked to the door of the hotel. I'm not the kind of person who takes myself very seriously. I go out for a trip and a business trip abroad, and I wander around everywhere. But in this city, I really feel that going out at night will be dangerous for me, and I can't see anything outside that is worth my adventure. On the way back, I looked carefully. There were no English bookstores, bars and other entertainment, no special markets, only some small shops that met people's basic survival needs. There is nothing to visit in the street, and the streets are full of cars that are so terrible to drive. Forget it.

When I returned to the hotel, I turned on the TV. There were twenty-seven or eight of the 4 channels, which were filled with songs and dances by a man and a woman. They all sounded the same, and even looked the same. The man had curly hair and a moustache, and the woman had huge eyes and a fat waist, flirting and loving. Bored to death, I had to sleep.

Tuesday

I went to work in the morning and watched the street view again, but I still didn't find anything interesting. There is no KFC, McDonald's or any other foreign fast food. Ask colleagues and foreigners. They say that in India, they only eat western food in hotels, but they can't eat a kind of hamburger cooked by Indians. Even if they want to taste Indian cuisine, they don't have the courage to eat something cooked with Indian water in restaurants on the street, no matter how high-end the restaurant is.

In addition to looking for restaurants, I especially looked for shops or advertisements related to computers, because the media always boasted about how the software industry in India is awesome and how many software engineers there are. As a result, I haven't seen anything related to calculators in the street, which refers to shops, advertisements, signs and so on, and nothing. I don't believe how many computer experts can be produced in such a place without computer foundation. I wonder if it is because India has been colonized by Britain for a long time, so there is more recognition of it in western culture and more computer interaction with it.

For example, the company I work for is an American company, and it still doesn't know the national conditions of China. Once it wanted to do market research in China, because it didn't believe that there was a qualified market research company in China, it invited a European research company with more cooperation. Of course, European companies can't do research in China. China thought, China, that's Asia. Asia, that's India. Subcontract the work to an Indian company. Indian companies thought, China, that's Hongkong. Subcontract the work to a Hong Kong company. Hong Kong people know about China, and they subcontract their work to a famous market research company in mainland China. So when I went to listen in, I saw a jumble of people. Everyone earns the money, but China people do the work. The final report was handed in by Europeans, and the content was made by China.

What this example means is that I don't believe how many computer talents can be produced in places like India where there is no universal education, low national strength and weak computer foundation. It is only because they have been colonized for a long time that the west knows them and they can speak English that they leave the impression on the world that India has a developed computer industry and many computer talents. They just know how to show. At the same time, can't show, this is China's fatal flaw. As mentioned in the above example, Hong Kong people are also good at dealing with the West because they have been colonized for a long time, and the West knows them better, popularizes their English and knows how to show.

Back to the topic of street view, there are no fast food, computers, department stores or supermarkets, bars, dance halls, amusement parks and other entertainment places. It seems that we have to stay in the hotel at night. There are quite a few temples on the road, Hindu ones, which are small and broken. The statues are ceramic, as if all of them grow up like noses, unlike Shiva with four arms and other gods with n arms, as I thought. You can't enter the temple, and you can't take pictures.

Today is the third time that my brother in shirt and tie, shorts and barefoot has taken us on the road, and we are still scared to death. British colleagues working in Indian factories told us that last year, the company sent a group of Indian managers-level engineers to Britain for training and got an international driver's license, and found that they didn't have the concept of carriageway at all and wandered around the road casually. No wonder, they haven't received this kind of education. In the test results, half of the people commented that "this person is not suitable for driving on the road", but these people drive every day in India!

It's time for lunch again. As soon as they entered the canteen, they smelled the sour odor that was twice as strong as people's body, and Chinese employees could not help but be scolded by the state. Today, they decided not to eat vegetables, but to eat their own pickles. I crustily skin of head to a whole

, exercise adaptability.

According to the Indians themselves, the reason why they only eat vegetarian dishes is that there are too many sects. There are dozens of sects in Islam, Catholicism, Hinduism,

Indo-

Hinduism itself, and each sect forbids different things. Therefore, in the factory, the only thing that people can

eat is vegetables. But western colleagues say that they seldom eat meat at home. I don't know much, so I dare not make a conclusion.

go to a Korean restaurant in the evening. There is a factory of Hyundai Motor in India, and Koreans have opened their own restaurant, which is delicious and delicious.

I found something interesting when I asked for a car from the hotel to go to a Korean restaurant. Indians don't count as shaking their heads. I

said, "I want to rent a car at night." The Indian shook his head and wrote it in his notebook. I thought he didn't understand,