The grueling experience at US

Totally agree with you madam! What a coincidence, today only I was telling my brother what a horrifying and embarassing experience it is for aged parents to go through such nasty security checks, when the real culprits are getting away , with gun powder tucked in their under wears...I felt really bad when the security women put those metal detectors at some nasty places to check my moms sari...she was all scared and was telling us repeatedly that she would never come to US as its insulting to see the kind of checking they do..that too in domestic flights..

These security people let go off all the culprits and do these rigorous and intensive checks for innocent people. Today morning there was a 6yr old kid on television who said, since he was 3 month old, everytime he travels by air, he is being held at airports for additional security clearance..guess what is the reason..it seems the kids name matches with one of the wanted person in their database....(so, they are checking a 3 month old baby..just based on the name in the database...) no wonder people need to be trained more sensibly

Really scary to hear about the ER incident, isnt it a serious case??? a kid oozing blood is infact a damn serious issue..how can the doctor even just leave like that??? and no one to give even a band aid???I am speechless

 

Dear Pushpa,

After reading all that u had to go thru, the doctors, and the flight, i can say just one thing, they are as bad as us, or rather we are better than them.

Not a drop of water in the 3 horus in fht flight ? Now let me tell u something about my wife's expierence on a private airline.

Harsha's mother expired and she had to make a sudden trip to Cheenai, and there is just one flight, Spicejet from Jaipur in the afternoon, no other flight goes direct to Cheennai.

Being a private ariline, they sell everything on the flight, sandwitches, and everything.

My wife, ate her lunch at went, and in the flight, she was feeling sad about the demise of hermother, the body was kept for her to come and have a last look.

She was sobbing in the flight, a male crew, looked very concerned, and got her tea and coffee and sandwitches, all for free, and she told him she does not want, but he was kind enough to forct it on her, and repeadly came and offered more tea or coffee, or whatever she wanted.

when she offered to pay, he said pls dont insult me, u are like my mom, please accept yr son's offering.

I do not know what to say , there are good people here too, and who says indian flight services are poor, and the Americans giove ui good sercive.

WE put down our own country, just be polite, and see the world fall at yr feet.Have a few kind words for everyone.

Good blog and i feel sorry for what u went thru.

East or west, india is the best, is my motto, and i stick by it.

Regards

kamal

 

Kamal sir

Very well said! Yep I guess its all about the attitude of the people, rather than the country. Just like any other country or continent, India/US every place has its good and bad.

WE take our country and our people for granted thats what I realised lately. When the same kindness comes from some one in US we are all praise for them, but when its from our own Indians, we think no big deal!

 

Dear PS - I fully agree with you and Kamalji -East or West India is the best. If the whole world looks down upon us Indians It's the Indians who live abroad who are resposible for that. They leave India as Indians and after living there for a few years they become and behave like foreigners. Please understand I am not generalizing here. I have visited US several times and whenever I happened to meet an Indian family in the Indian shops or in public places I smile at them and say Hello and they don't even acknowledge my greetings.They just look at me as thogh I am an alien and try to walk away! They think it's a disgrace to recognize people from their own country. I don't feel hurt but I just feel ashamed to see our own people behaving in this fashion. I have found Americans and their living pattern so different from ours and I think they are living a more macahnized and computerized life but believe me they are generally Okay kind of people. They are under great stress with political and security problems as we all understand. Whichever country we belong to we live here now and share our lives in this world together. We should learn to behave like good human beings no matter which country we belong to.....

 

People think US is a great country. Nevertheless it was, but not any more. Racism prevails still in US and European countries also. The whites will treat the Indian Brown with no respect only. The mind set cannot be changed even if India is recognised in the world map now, or if Indians are found in every sq.mtr of US or UK land or in other European countries / AUS/NZ.

Secondly, American Airlines is one of the worst airlines and their aircrafts are old and filthy. Their services are poor to the bottom of the pit. I dont know which airline Mrs. PS took.

My cousin who has travelled many times to USA had problem in her last visit after 9/11, when she visited for her daughter's Graduation. The mother and her younger daughter have been kept under constant watch and the police have been sitting opposite to her in the aircraft also during domestic travel. When she went to the toilet, they were standing outside. She gave her handbag to them to keep with themselves, so not to worry at all. Thank God, they did not face for any reason any questioning or arrest or any of such actions for the REASON UNKNOWN TO HER.

Later on, she understood that a name similar to hers is in their crime books. Her name is SushILA. ILA in reverse is ALI !!! So the authorities / cops had her under their check, similar to Shahrukh KHAN.

These brains are to be kept in which MUSEUMS?

I would suggest anyone wishes to travel to western countries in Sari, please wear the Sari without any ZARI. You can choose to wear a simple non slippery Silk sari with some embroid border for beauty. Not to wear cotton which will go up and stay in the sky after 12 hours+ air journey........ or go for Churidar or a comfy pants and shirts.

Best Regards
Shanti

 

Really bitter experiences.I could not believe that medical personnel are so indifferent there ! Our own country is so much better.

It must be so embarassing for Indian ladies to go through at all checking. My aunt had a tough time once trying to explain the safety pin holding her saree pleats which made such a noise on the detector that the security women there ordered her to remove the pleats and show right there with all other pasengers looking ! She was so angry and was swearing she would never travel abroad again.

 

Dear Pushpa Aunty,

Yes, we often praise, services of foreign countries is better and blah blah, and try to bring down our own countries down.

I have two tiny tots, and even i sometime feel scared, how much serious here is serious enough for them to treat the child.

I remembere, in India, my son got ear pain, he was crying for 2 hrs, we took him to ENT, and the doc said, we may have to do emergency srugery, for removing fluid from his ear, and the did immediatley within 3 hrs.

Is it possible here like that, they would have to fix appt, find doctors dates, my god. I pray daily, pls dont put us in such emergency

Also while coming here i was travelling alone with 2 kids, by BA flight, and transit in Heathrow. There they asked us to go for extra check, since my 6 years old daughter was wearing Stockings.

Already i was worried, since my connecting flight time was in next 15 min, and these guys are checking again me, my daughter, all my hand baggages.

I asked them straight do you do this only to Asians????? For that they said, no we dont do any racism. Later on my DH and friends said, you lucky you got away even by making that statement, otherwise for they could have kept me hold for tlaking like that.