I visited Muscat recently. One thing that amused me the most is the behaviour of the Arabs and their friendliness! Arabs have their own style of greeting people with their friendly gestures. I was in the super market looking for some biscuits when at least 3 Arabs came up to me and shook hands saying Salaam walekum!! I was just thinking if I had become so popular for the Arabs to greet me? Later on I came to know that if you meet the eyes of people coming in our way, that's how you get greeted! Oh well, it was a good experience!
I was told by my son that even if there is an accident between two motor vehicles, the Arabs are so cool that they first shake hands and enquire if every thing is well in the family and get to know each other well before they call the police as it is mandatory for the police to clear vehicles after certifying the accident to enable processing of insurance claims!! No one swears at anyone and people generally are cool!
The entire country of Oman is filled with our brothers from Kerala who almost run every business right from the Coffee shop, the Sikhs engaged in A/c and fridge repair works, Gujus running Pharmacy and restaurants!
Our south Indians, most of them employed with Saud bhawan LLC and other Building contractors!! I was quite amused and pleasantly taken by surprise when I found Malayalees working in almost all departmental stores and super markets!! On a lighter vein, so much is the Kerala power felt that if one day they decide to get out of the country, the entire economy of Oman might collapse!!
Trees are being planted all over the Kingdom of Oman and beautiful parks and gardens are being developed where you can find absolute green grass to walk or sit on? The trees and the grass are being watered regularly by sprouting sprinklers all over!
In contrast, trees are being felled in India and the fast fading greenery is visualised in almost all the cities! It will be worthwhile if this act of wiping off greenery results in oil find as in Oman? There are no wine shops anywhere in the country in contrast to what is being seen in India and in particular reference to Tamil nadu. In India, the political parties lack will to introduce family well being measures and prefer to stick a label on the whisky bottle highlighting the ill effects of drinking instead of prohibiting production of alcohol. Permission to manufacture high end foreign cars which can zip @120 kms/hour are given but restrict the public from driving beyond 40 kms/hour by obstructing roads with speed breakers and speed limits! Smoking is banned in Public but the factories are flourishing and expanding pouring the exchequer with income generated from the Excise-duty!! Our political leaders are old and carry old school of thoughts without realising the progress made by other countries that were way behind our great Nation! For instance, even until about a few decades back, the gulf countries depended solely upon India for virtually every thing to live and the freely accepted currency was our Indian Rupee!! Today, our Indian Rupee has no value anywhere in the world and once you step out of India, you realise that our currency has no value and to match a wad of Omani Riyals, you need to carry a sack full of Indian Rupees!!!
sometimes, I wonder as to what is wrong with our Indian Rupee? In 1972, the U S dollar was trading @8.60/Rs100, the Deutsche Mark was trading @4.32/Rs 100 and the yen 3900/Rs 100. Now, after 40 years we are so low in comparison to all other currencies to make us think what is our Finance minister and the respective ministry doing about it?
I was told that the King of Oman, pleased with some Indians who have been loyal to his Majesty Sultan qaboos for many years, have been granted the citizenship with a right to live peacefully. They can acquire property and build their own houses but certainly not outside the fundamental designs and concepts approved by the authority! They are a lot of lucky Indians, oops.. lucky Omani! People are made to work hard to earn their decent living with comforts! The Sultan stands up tall to look after the developments of the country and helps his citizens!! There are no taxes of any kind and all that you earn is all yours without the tax men cutting into your cake! sometimes, you wonder if India is taking cues from his majesty the sultan of Oman to form dynasty rule in many of our states? ahhhhh.... one such state that I know for sure is Tamilnadu!!!
The entire country of Oman is filled with our brothers from Kerala who almost run every business right from the Coffee shop, the Sikhs engaged in A/c and fridge repair works, Gujus running Pharmacy and restaurants!
Our south Indians, most of them employed with Saud bhawan LLC and other Building contractors!! I was quite amused and pleasantly taken by surprise when I found Malayalees working in almost all departmental stores and super markets!! On a lighter vein, so much is the Kerala power felt that if one day they decide to get out of the country, the entire economy of Oman might collapse!!
Trees are being planted all over the Kingdom of Oman and beautiful parks and gardens are being developed where you can find absolute green grass to walk or sit on? The trees and the grass are being watered regularly by sprouting sprinklers all over!
In contrast, trees are being felled in India and the fast fading greenery is visualised in almost all the cities! It will be worthwhile if this act of wiping off greenery results in oil find as in Oman? There are no wine shops anywhere in the country in contrast to what is being seen in India and in particular reference to Tamil nadu. In India, the political parties lack will to introduce family well being measures and prefer to stick a label on the whisky bottle highlighting the ill effects of drinking instead of prohibiting production of alcohol. Permission to manufacture high end foreign cars which can zip @120 kms/hour are given but restrict the public from driving beyond 40 kms/hour by obstructing roads with speed breakers and speed limits! Smoking is banned in Public but the factories are flourishing and expanding pouring the exchequer with income generated from the Excise-duty!! Our political leaders are old and carry old school of thoughts without realising the progress made by other countries that were way behind our great Nation! For instance, even until about a few decades back, the gulf countries depended solely upon India for virtually every thing to live and the freely accepted currency was our Indian Rupee!! Today, our Indian Rupee has no value anywhere in the world and once you step out of India, you realise that our currency has no value and to match a wad of Omani Riyals, you need to carry a sack full of Indian Rupees!!!
sometimes, I wonder as to what is wrong with our Indian Rupee? In 1972, the U S dollar was trading @8.60/Rs100, the Deutsche Mark was trading @4.32/Rs 100 and the yen 3900/Rs 100. Now, after 40 years we are so low in comparison to all other currencies to make us think what is our Finance minister and the respective ministry doing about it?
I was told that the King of Oman, pleased with some Indians who have been loyal to his Majesty Sultan qaboos for many years, have been granted the citizenship with a right to live peacefully. They can acquire property and build their own houses but certainly not outside the fundamental designs and concepts approved by the authority! They are a lot of lucky Indians, oops.. lucky Omani! People are made to work hard to earn their decent living with comforts! The Sultan stands up tall to look after the developments of the country and helps his citizens!! There are no taxes of any kind and all that you earn is all yours without the tax men cutting into your cake! sometimes, you wonder if India is taking cues from his majesty the sultan of Oman to form dynasty rule in many of our states? ahhhhh.... one such state that I know for sure is Tamilnadu!!!
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