Who knows what is the meaning of corruption as a kid!!...I wasn't an exception too... We have been taught of pre-independence wars, struggle for independence, ancient human history, invention of wheel and all such things. But it's so sad that we haven't been taught anything of corruption or its exact and true history...we don't know whether it was a subject of Social Studies or General Sciences, we don't know whether it was invented or discovered...or it may be that I missed out on its classes.
But as they say..."Life is a good teacher"....and it really taught me all the cool things.....and ofcourse about corruption too...It was the first time I actually went to a government office...(yeah yeah....shut up...I know you guessed it :P). I went to pension office with my granny for the yearly checkup in person. The procedure is that they see the pensioner in-person, check all the documents (to keep track of the alive pensioners) and sign the declaration.
So it happened that after sitting, standing and sleeping on the chair for almost 3 hours, the attender called me and she said they are searching for the documents. Meanwhile she would like to have some tea...and asked for money for the same :O...
I felt a lil awkward...but the great Hari took out a five rupee coin and kept it in her hand....(shut up guys...don't laugh x( ...). She immediately stared at me top to bottom...slammed the coin back to my face....muttered all the "sanskrit" words.... She almost screamed and asked for Rs. 100/-...so much so that I thought I stepped on her foot.
And the rest was history....it was my "Welcome to India" (from RDB) moment....or infact "Welcome to the world" moment.....
Ooh yeah...BTW....tomorrow is Teacher's Day....Happy Teacher' Day.....to my life and all my teachers :)
But as they say..."Life is a good teacher"....and it really taught me all the cool things.....and ofcourse about corruption too...It was the first time I actually went to a government office...(yeah yeah....shut up...I know you guessed it :P). I went to pension office with my granny for the yearly checkup in person. The procedure is that they see the pensioner in-person, check all the documents (to keep track of the alive pensioners) and sign the declaration.
So it happened that after sitting, standing and sleeping on the chair for almost 3 hours, the attender called me and she said they are searching for the documents. Meanwhile she would like to have some tea...and asked for money for the same :O...
I felt a lil awkward...but the great Hari took out a five rupee coin and kept it in her hand....(shut up guys...don't laugh x( ...). She immediately stared at me top to bottom...slammed the coin back to my face....muttered all the "sanskrit" words.... She almost screamed and asked for Rs. 100/-...so much so that I thought I stepped on her foot.
And the rest was history....it was my "Welcome to India" (from RDB) moment....or infact "Welcome to the world" moment.....
Ooh yeah...BTW....tomorrow is Teacher's Day....Happy Teacher' Day.....to my life and all my teachers :)
