Thursday, August 20, 2009

Transitioning India – a general public perspective

Not too long ago (about 6-8 years) people had to wait for 6 months to a year for a scooter to be delivered after making the advanced booking. More recently (about 2 years ago) booking a train ticket was a chore, similarly paying electricity bills demanded taking half a day leave from office! There was a time (10 years ago) when there was the “Chitrahaar” the most sought after TV music channel was aired on Friday evenings on the National TV (Doordarshan) and people waited for it with tremendous patience!
Now 10 years later we can buy a scooter of the shelf, online booking (you don’t even have to move your ass) of train tickets, same with paying electricity amongst other bill payment. Finally nobody waits for Chitrahaar anymore, there are so many TV music channels it is difficult to keep track with all sorts of video-music played, and if you are not satisfied with this there are DVDs.