An excellent ethnographic, socio-political study.

On the Western scale of things all these inefficiencies in the Indian mindset and society might be working definitions why India will never surpass its stategic and commercial competitor, China.

Pete

...Ahhh, a new frontier for the OH and S Nazis: Couldn’t we disrupt their otherwise happy lives, with some Australian style overregulation and de-skilling educational policies, from a Labor style “Motherhood mentalism”? Please, please! As a bonus, could Australians encourage the introduction of a Multicultural flavour to their obviously culturally barren lives, by importing skilled and licensed labour from struggling Western economies; edging them into a global world of collectivism and expanding cultural horizons as a bonus?

...And I am left to wonder, were the tradesmen on motorcycles licenced, were they wearing helmets and was their motorcycle registered; did the motorcycle itself pass emissions standards?

...I have a distant memory when Australia resembled those free and easy days of entrepreneurial freedom.