Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Third World Countries?

A memorable trip to Amsterdam for attending "Soft Matter Days".. Met Wim Van Sarloos and discussed my problem with him and also some more PhD students and Postdocs...
But the best part of the trip was journey to Amsterdam Zuid and that too perticularly from Amersfoort to Amsterdam Zuid. Changed a train at Amersfoort and as usual did not think before getting into the train and then got scared after that. Saw a man sitting, went to him and asked. For my surprise I was in the right train.
He asked me "Are you from India?"... And he was very happy to see that I am from India.
And I still remember the words as if he is still sitting with me saying "Yess man! Future is ours".. And I was like... what? Sorry ... I did not get you. Can you please say it again....
He said "the future belongs to third world countries man.... I am from Turkey...My goverment even does not have money to help people who lost everything in flood. World has ruined us.. They took everything from us... And now they call us third world countries.. Now they want to help us.. But you know what they do not have HEART.... We, the people from thirld world countries have a heart for each other.. I know we are lagging far behind US or UK or maybe Europe... But man people here do not have time for each other...( I apologize to all reading it, but was really touched by this man.. So writing his words)..... Seeing you makes me so happy and now I am thankful to god that I did something good in the morning. But man you know what... We keep fighting over religion and do not understand that indeed we are helping US to check our progress.. You know one day god will teach us some lesson and I do not want it should be too late.. In US all the software work is being done by Indians and Chinese.. Their security system is being run by Israelies... So I hope there should be one day when US should pray to we Asians.. They should not disregard us being Third World Countries.. Should not feel pity on us.. But we always try to run to US or UK or Europe... Now I regret that.. I cannot serve my country... The hi fi technology these people are developing, is it going to help the world? Poor would be poor.. Still for him bread is more important than technology!"
It was all around 20 minutes and then he got down at his stop but his words are still fresh in my heart....