'Hate to be an Indian': Viral Reddit Rant says women's safety, functional infrastructure, basic respect is 'luxuries' | Today news

A Reddit user shared a strong post about the dismay of India’s current state. “Proud to be Indian? Look around – rape, dirt, corruption and apathy, ‘says the social media post. “Sometimes I really hate an Indian, because this country is a mixture of dirt, chaos and hypocrisy,” the post begins on that note. According to the user, it is difficult to feel proud if there is so much rape, dirt, corruption and public apathy. People ignore traffic rules, spit and junk in public. At the same time, Indians are fighting for religion and cabinets. Women do not feel safe, and crimes barely shock someone now. The user felt angry about paying taxes, but still faced bad roads, garbage, floods and poor services. “We are bleeding taxes through GST, income tax, tolls and strike just to drown potholes, garbage mountains and cities after one rain, while our money disappears into corruption and political drama,” the user wrote. “Still, we bump our coffins that we call a ‘superpower’ while living in a country where clean streets, women’s safety, functional infrastructure and basic respect for each other are luxuries,” the user added. “Sometimes it just feels like the majority of us don’t care, as long as our own bubble is not upset, and it is depressing to look at a people with so much talent and potential rot in ignorance, apathy and mediocrity,” the user concluded. Social media reactions Interestingly, many users on social media have agreed with the user on the issues. ‘Simply drive 1 km on any road and you will understand how India is. Rules are a joke here. Spending millions to cameras and God knows what its use is, ‘one user wrote. Another user called India ‘the laughter of the world’. “I feel in the same way, even people around us have normalized it so that if we try to fix them, they will laugh. The other day, nieces and I hung out in the public place and I didn’t throw the casing in the road and kept it in my bag to throw it in the garbage can, they all laughed like that, ‘come from another. One of them continued and wrote, “To be honest, not even proud to be human.”