I am genuinely surprised why more people in India aren’t talking about this openly. If you want clean drinking water, you have to buy a water purifier and then pay 18% GST on it. If you want clean air, buy an air purifier again, 18% GST. If you want 24×7 electricity, don’t rely on the grid buy an inverter. If you want quality education for your child, forget government schools, you have to go private, where fees run into lakhs. Government schools are not even a serious option for most middle-class families. If you want good healthcare, you go to a private hospital and once you step inside, your bank balance starts bleeding. Many families literally take loans to survive medical emergencies. Now leave all this aside. Even pure food is hard to get. Paneer is adulterated. Dal is artificially coloured. Street food? Nobody knows what’s being mixed dirty hands, sweat, sometimes worse. We just hope nothing happens. Try walking outside: • Footpaths barely exist. • Vehicles come from all directions. • People don’t follow lanes. • Potholes everywhere. One wrong step and: you might get hit by a vehicle, or you might fall and injure yourself And who takes responsibility? No one. Ask questions and suddenly you’re: • called deshdrohi • told to “go to Pakistan” Why should expectations from my own country be compared with Pakistan? When India plays cricket, do we compare ourselves with Kenya or Zimbabwe? No. We compare ourselves with Australia, England, big teams. Then why, as a country, shouldn’t we compare ourselves with: China, the USA, Japan, Australia other large economies? People say “India is Vishwaguru.” If that were true: • why are so many millionaires leaving India? • why are top celebrities and athletes settling abroad? • why do people with money still choose foreign education, healthcare, and passports? Loving your country doesn’t mean staying silent. Asking questions is not anti-national. Expecting clean air, safe roads, honest food, affordable healthcare, and quality education is not a crime. Patriotism is not blind worship. Patriotism is demanding better because we believe India deserves better. If this made you uncomfortable, maybe it needed to be said. Share it. Talk about it. Silence won’t fix anything.