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in all person. He has brought his huge automatic car
for us. “Listen, Indians are not punctual about time but
now you are in world’s number one Singapore country.
So take care, else you will miss one of point.” He said.
25 Indian dealers were with us. They were laughing at his
statement. I said, “Why are you laughing? He has
disrespected our country.” And I said to Sali, “ Look
Sali, we will take care, but if you are not in time then you
should show us an additional point. Okay?” he agreed
on this point. He kept praising his own country while

showing us different points. He also highlighted their
economic growth. He was really proud of his country.
And I must appreciate him for his pride.
But Sali was never on time. So, we visited many more
places as he agreed to do so for being late. We enjoyed
our Singapore trip.
We enjoyed shopping by mercedese taxi and metro.

Station officers had guided us well. But, he did not tell

us about re-earning two dollars after submitt ing the
ticket in the drop box. We showed him his own mistake
and he gave back our money from his own pocket.
I appreciate his prompt service. Singapore is truly
beautiful country with a world trade market. It has a
diameter of 80 Km. I highlighted an importance of our
country at the end of the trip in my thanking speech.
I also told them that a single district of india has more
area than Singapore. My country has 30 to 32 huge districts
and 29 states and 7 union territories. I also told him the
central minister Sharad Pawar’ s quote. “my country has
enough storage of food grains which can feed the whole
country for next 10 years if at all there are drought prone
situations.” I have a strong army force which the world
has seen in the kargil war. On the contrary, Singapore
has a railway station of Malasia. It has to import
the drinking water. Sali had apologise after this and
accepted the greatness of India. We also accepted the
beauty of the Singapore and started our return journey
to India.
VASANT BAHAR / 64