India

I hate the infrastructure in India.
I dislike our philandering politicians.
I am annoyed at the level of corruption.
I have an aversion to suspended dust and haze in our air.
I hate selfish, ignorant and illiterates who roam our streets.
I feel claustrophobic about our over indulgent media which gets into people's lives.
I can't stand narrow-mindedness based on religion, language, caste and sex is still rampant.

There are a lot of reason to be proud of India, however, the most important one is:
I have freedom to say all these without any fear.

Yesterday, we had guests at our home from China. They were extremely parochial. They even hated the idea that someone can criticize their own country. Our neighbour who got married to this Chinese girl went to China and was very impressed that amongst 200 channel 199 were in Mandarin or Cantonese and 1 was in English. He was telling me that no channel ever reports anything bad about anything in China. He said everything seems to be so perfect. He thought that Indian media is so stupid to keep showing what is wrong with the country.

Me and his sister, who lives in England, had a hard time understanding that how can you praise media which is not telling the truth.

Then the Chinese girl started to criticize US for no reason, she says that freedom in the US has brought guns on the street and a lot of people kill others. By this time I didn't have any courage to argue with her.

At the end I love freedom that my country provides a little too much to give it away for even my own security. I would accept terrorists who use our freedom to kill a few of us but how can we stifle our own people with stringent laws.

I will never accept any law which curtails my thought or my speech and neither can I live country where people do not respect that freedom.