Saturday, December 26, 2009

Going to the moon would have been easier

I love being an Indian, there are no two ways about that. Ours is a country we all need to be proud of. Unlike the imperielist Europeans and and also the Japs, we have never invaded any country or have tried to impose our way of like or views on any civiliasation. And at that we all need to be proud of.
But for the first time i have ever regreted being an Indian was when i had to apply for my visa to South America. My plan was to travel 5 or 6 months in Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Bolivia and from where i see it, this should have been a piece of cake – getting the visas that is. But this could´nt have been further fromt the truth.
I dont know how difficult by journey through these countries is going to turn out considering i am doing it all alone, but the difficulty is getting the visas was down right disgusting. The travel agents all had the same reply – nahi ho sakta. Its not that I was wanting to go to the moon and as how thigs turned out that would have been simpler.
Holdiing an Indian passport is a punishment and thats despite my passport being well stamped with alot of visas before i applied for the first visa which was of Brazil. The thing that really pisses me of is that all the Europeans and ofcourse the Americans dont need no visas to go to any of the countries i planned to visit. This is really unfare. Its them who actually need to be scrutinized because you never know where again they might intend to set up another conlny. Which brings me again to my ealrier point. India has never invaded any country. I know i am missing the point but it pisses me off immensely that it has to be so difficult form Indians to get visas. Ahhh.
Till the time my Brazil visa came which took 1 complete month, anxiety levels had reach bursting point. I´d left my job for a specific puspose – to travel and it seemed that it would´nt happen.
Eventually after a wait of a month my Brazil visa came after which i presumed that it would be plain sailing. Wrong again. Peru also took nearly 3 weeks and Argentina took another 2 weeks. But they are right when they say that if something has to happen for you then the world will conspire to make it happen.
Eventuially things did fall into place and i am now on my way.

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