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The problem with this world is globalisation. Recently I travelled to London on holiday and was going to stopover at Dubai where my three-year-old neice Anika lives. Most of my London trip was spent thinking about that perfect gift I could buy for her. I looked high and low and then some. Finally running out of time and tired of stomping through the streets of London, I zeroed in on a toy that I thought would make the perfect gift for her. I paid good money and then immediately regretted my decision. The weight of this toy was backbreaking. And in the absence of being able to afford a cab, I had to lug this huge toy to a tube station. My only consolation I thought was the look of happiness on little Anika’s face on receiving the gift. Alas, the wickedness of globalisation put paid to my well-laid plans. After I reached Dubai, while paying a perfunctory visit to a mall there, I saw the exact same toy displayed. There was a minor price difference but apart from that there was no difference. This is the problem of now travelling to most parts of the developed world. The same chain stores are everywhere. And they are laid out in the same malls. The joy of shopping and bringing back memories of the countries visited is now lost for you just buy high street brands that are now everywhere. Next time, wiser by this experience, it may be better to just not buy gifts. Or buy them locally. |
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November 9th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Ha ha..
@Aaron - your comment will be promptly deleted. I received the same treatment for one of my comments.
I read through due to the use of glorified words in titles expecting some brain teaser..well..
November 7th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
Poor you. So you went to London for a holiday, spent lots of money on your niece, and found it was all a bit of a waste.
Please. Spare us this particularly excruciating brand of airhead journalism.
I need not have read it if I didn’t like it, you say (the equivalent of use your remote if you don’t like the channel, dude)?
Sure, sister. But when you write bilge, expect an occasional reaction.
November 6th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
fact of the globalised village.
November 5th, 2009 at 11:22 am
Nice one Archana, definitely for one of those upper middle class and above. But I saw a a poor girl on a busy road side of a well famous road in Bangalore called ‘ Brigade ‘. She was playing with 6 stones with her little Sister, probably, just beside a toy shop.
All the time she come under my eye sight she seemed very happy and much enjoying her game though it was muddy.
Will so called globisation be an answer for her dreams ? Even a broken toy is a dream for her.
Lets talk about EQUALISATION and not on globalisation, the later anyways exists & ‘ll grow. The Situation in India demands that.
Remember to the whole of the global society our country is still under developed not developed. ” When pride comes then comes disaster “
November 5th, 2009 at 10:52 am
Infact there is a huge possibility that the gift would have been manufactured by our very own local Indian vendor.I suggest while we are blessed to inhabit the manufacturing backwaters of the developed world ,we must shop localy
November 5th, 2009 at 10:41 am
ha ha ha
November 5th, 2009 at 12:29 am
hi..really u just depicted a nice experience..basically it’s very common happening with all but few notice it and very few blogs it..really it’s turning effect of globalisation..i also faced same type of problem in my life..buying gifts is not an issue main thing is how can u relate that things with your memories as it ll be available all over the world..