Change in Life Style

I remember going market with my Mom carrying a bunch of jute carrybags or a basket in hand. Let it be shopping vegetable or clothes for family. Caary bags are must. But now you go empty handed. The basket has been replaces with trolleys and polythene bags took over jute bags. Even the money has been replaced with plastic money mostly reffered as credit cards or debit cards. Hypermarket took over mandi and malls replaced what we use to call as main market. Even public carriers have improved. Those days we use to have Riskshaw with a man pulling it or cycling it from market to home. Now we have auto rikshaw. Local convience like trains and busses have advanced to AC Busses and underground metro trains. Earlier we use to have market place spread across acres with a section of vegetable market with dirty lanes. But now you just need to enter into mall and infact you get every thing starting from food, sports item, Books, Groceries, Vegetables and anything you can imagine. Just remember to have plastic card or enough cash in your pocket and infact you can buy everything you want.

This was just a dream a decade back but see how fast India has grown. The new era started when our hounerable Prime Minister Mr. Rajiv Gandi brought IT industries into India. Along with IT industries there came loads of foreign currency and that truly changed the life style of India.

People are getting crazy about brands. No matter how much it cost you, if it belongs to your favourite brand, you don’t even give sencond thought. Almost every marketting place or shopping malls you can get your favourite brand showroom. First time when I heard of multi-plex I was surprised. How can you have multiple movies running on the same theatre? The concept of just watching movies has been changed to total entertainment. You get comfortable push back chairs with a coffee tray attached and couple of service men ready to serve you your favourite burger with Pepsi. Once you get out of movie you feel totally relaxed, chanting about various scenes and clips of the movie.

There is also bad part of it. People are getting more careless about their attire. Specially girls getting more fashionable. This give unnecessary invitation to rowdy elements. And also it spoils Indian culture. Hike in prices is other adversity of growing lifestyle because people are getting more careless in spending money. As long as the lifestyle is in our cultural limits, the life is good otherwise it invites a dark future for your siblings.