Friday, August 06, 2004

Indian Flab

India is one lucky country. Without its cleverly planned transportation services, and designing and construction of the roads, we would've had the highest average weight figures. All the praise goes to the community effort.
Indians, as known are dull people when it comes to conditioning yourself physically. They don't care if sihouette of their muscles peek out of their shirts or not. Sure, their hormones rage wildly too on sighting a lad or lassie. But even that isn't enough to make them determined enough to prepare a body to adore. See, thats how lazy we Indians are, including me.
Even though our ancient cultures have emphasized the aesthetics of body in every book and carvings, it "ancient" now. The proponents of fitness have obviously been bitten by the western bug. Otherwise in India, one's family backgroud is measured by the size of his tummy. The more perfect it is towards being a cirle, the more of a magnate he is. People here follow the rotten doctrine of "The more empoverished one is, the thinner he is. The successful ones are full."
Now, back to the main point. Common transport is India's saving grace. Even if you are in the least mood to stress yourself, you're sure to end up like a sweating pig on a humid day. Once you're inside the buses, you'll be first receiving warm up, then main matchup against the ruthless enemy in middle of the bus, then some massaging once you've captured a comfortable place to stand, and that is followed by another session of sugar rush as you try to make your exit through protruding butts, bags, suitcases, cricket kits, utensils, etc. And once you're down, you again have to run to catch the next one (usually).
This combined effort leads to all round fitness. The paunch still protrudes to some extent due to excess of fat accumulation which Indians can't get rid of that easily. Only deep fried food sells here.
And yes, the process working remains same, nowhere in which part of the country you are. Modes of travel might be different, but end results are very satisfying.

All's well that works well. So let's all give a big round of applause to the largest nationwide collaborative effort which goes on despite being unawarded for.

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