Yesterday evening I was calling from my cell phone. After the conversation, my handset showed the call duration as 00.59 seconds. But I was charged for 2 minutes by my service provider (cant state the name of the service provider, as I don’t have any evidence, as the LAST CALL DURATION record gets overwritten when the next call is made.), which is twice the charge. I rang up the customer care. They replied that my last call lasted for 62 seconds and that’s why I was charged for two minutes. It seems, their software is programmed in such a way that every time a call is made, a few seconds is added to the total call duration of the customer and billed accordingly. This is not the first time, I experienced such an experience. It happened many times before too. Some of my friends and colleagues also had such experiences with different cellular service providers and I am sure you too had such experience sometimes sooner or later. Is this the way the multi-billionaire cell-bosses are becoming multi-billionaire? The cell-companies are having over million customers, if the companies cheat a customer once a day (although I was cheated many times on some days), they make millions of Rupees everyday just by cheating. My case was of a prepaid SIM. If you are a post paid customer, only God and cheating Cell-companies know how many times you are cheated, as in case of postpaid customers bills are generated once in a month. Forget Cell-operators, the other sectors are also equally dishonest. That is why, the reputed company like Videocon is banned by World Bank on dealing with them. The saga of Satyam is not unknown to anyone. These unmask the famous Indian dishonesty to the world. Can you name a place where dishonesty has not placed its root? Right from defense dealings to education, from medical sector to IT sector, Indian dishonesty is on a rampage. I too work in an environment where shameless dishonest employees are selling their soul and honesty in a worse way than that a prostitute does. Here, I recall my experience that I experienced while working with a Two Wheeler Company Authorized Dealer (again I can’t disclose the name of the dealer as I do not have any evidence), where the dealer used to increase the Prices of spare parts of two wheelers by 20-30% in the very next month, whenever the sale of the bike used to go down. Really, honesty is probably the cheapest thing that money can buy here in India. Actually India is ruled by foreigners for about 1000 years. In this long spell of time, we were taught to get our works done by hook or crook and to make money in any way – whether it is an honest way or a dishonest way, it doesn’t matter. So, dishonesty has entered in our Genes and we areGenetically Modified Dishonest. That is the only reason why the Multi Crore Stamp Paper Scan, Share Scam, Defence purchase Scams etc happens only in India. Here you refuel in Petrol Pumps, 95% of their meter will run fast. You ride a taxi in a metropolis, 90% chance you will be over charged. You ask your gas vendor to supply the cylinder at your home on time, you have to count some extra notes. We are very happy in buying smuggled cheap Chinese products, but while buying Indian Products, we try to escape tax. Escaping Income Tax is seen as a heroic activity. On the other hand, are we getting the total benefit that we suppose to get from the amount collected from tax. A Major portion of the money is spent unnecessarily on the Politicians and Bureaucrats It seems almost every Single Indian is dishonest and in this country if you are honest, you are the most fool one.
‘Jane Kya hoga Rama re….Jane kya hoga Maula re…………’
