The Truant Tales

A common observation for a sagging TV show is the introduction of a new character - a last desperate attempt to salvage some kind of viewership ratings and keep the show afloat till the inevitable axing. Similarly, a sagging blog is infused life into it with a new feature. In this case, its Friday Night Lists. So hopefully, I update this regularly every week till I lose interest in it (remember 'youtube of the week' ?). So to kick start the first edition, here's presenting:

15 things that can be defined only for India

1) -where traffic jams often involves the crossing of livestock.
2) -where more people pee around a public toilet than in the toilet itself.
3) -where the number of people travelling in the foot board of the bus far exceeds the maximum number of people the bus can carry.

4) -where it is more indecent for a lady to wear mini-skirts than for a guy to drop his pants and pee on a public street.
5) -where a swanky mall selling $10,000 swarovski crystals is surrounded by slums where people live on less than $1 a day.
6) -where a movie is not considered a movie unless it has atleast 10 songs in it, one of which have to be full of scantily clad women. (where protests against blue films are done only after the protesters view the film mulitple number of times)
7) -where there are more political parties than there are gods in Hindu mythology.
8) -where political mudslinging is far more interesting than any Hollywood pot broiler.
9) -where a hole in the floor can suffice as a public toilet.
10) This one is an inside joke for us Indians
-where a South Indian is a 'madrasi' to a North Indian, where a North Indian is a 'bihari' to a South Indian and a North-Easterner is a 'chinky' (a slang for a Chinese even though people from the North-East are as Indian as us).
11) Bargaining during shopping is an art by itself.
12) -where roads come inbuilt with potholes, positioned for maximum discomfort.
13) -where there is two way traffic on a one way street.
14) -where the least populated place is the parliament building (where their attendance sheet reads like their IQs - all single digit).
15) And lastly, to sign off with an endearing image of 'many worlds one country'
-where the most prominent church of the city is situated in an area of Muslim majority named after a Hindu ( St Mary's church, Shivajinagar in Bangalore).

And one given by an anonymous reader:

Look at India's democracy where a minority community (Sikh) is the prime minister, a woman as president, a Muslim as vice-president, a Dalit as chief justice and a foreigner settled in India as the head of a democratic political party, the Indian National Congress...