Indians, by and large, love mediocrity. Anyone is too successful, and we look at them with suspicion. We spread rumors on how they might have cheated their way up, or they are favourites of the higher-ups. We call them ass-lickers, if they are our colleagues.

If it is a businessman, we think they succeeded coz of wrongdoings and bribery. Yes, we are happy to receive and give Rs 50 bribe on traffic signals, but the businessmen should be squeaky clean.

The hate being poured on Ambani-Adani by the "non BJP" conglomerate is no different.

If a kid scores well in tests, their classmates think they cheated, or take private tuitions from the teacher. That attitude, in a microcosm, explains our behaviour towards anyone successful.

Instead of learning from the successful, we spend time trying to pull them down.

A random farmer in Punjab, who uses cheap Jio data, pours hate on Ambani, coz he thinks that Ambani has more money than the latter deserves. He doesn't know what kind of work Mukesh Ambani does, to keep Reliance afloat.

Indians, by and large, are small-minded people.

We celebrate mediocrity. It is everywhere. Our cinema, our telly, our public sector services, our roads, our Universities, our schools.

Most of them are a celebration of mediocrity. We are happy to "atleast do something" rather than excelling.

As a result, anyone who tries to be better than the rest, is pulled down in the quagmire of mediocrity called our bureaucracy, who ensures thag the individual doesn't rise beyond a certain arbitrary level. If he still tries, he is struck down.

Well, this isn't a random rant. Just something I wanted to say since a long time.. As a person, as a customer, as a doctor, I absolutely hate mediocrity of any kind. And we have an entire machinery dedicated to keep people mediocre.

Try to fight through it!

*****fin****

This discussion can go on ad infinitum. Remember the fierce opposition to bullet trains? Or to space missions?

The logic was, why go for better, when you can provide mediocre/below average to a large number of ppl who'll happy they got "atleast something"?