This morning I read a very meaningful article. It presented the real picture of how most of our children and many adults behave in our own country and abroad.
It is very common for many people to cough without closing their mouth at the dining table and not to wash the wash basin after mouth wash. For this reason, I avoid using restaurants. If there is no alternative, I look for a dining table with empty chairs. After sitting in the chair and placing order for some item, as I begin eating, some one occupies the chair opposite to that of mine and coughs loudly without closing his/her mouth or not turning his/her face away from the table. I have experienced this many times in restaurants and a few times at the restaurant near my current residence. Such things have happened only when our own Indians share dining tables. I have never come across such odd behaviour in westerners. I think that our fellow Indians should learn table manners from westerners although table manners are very clearly explained in detail in our respected Sanaathana Dharmaa Scriptures.
In one of my previous posts, I have mentioned about very well behaved children of an Indian couple at restaurant in Phnom Penh when I was having my lunch. I congratulated the couple and their two sons for the good behaviour of their children and for their role as effective parents. When I asked the gentlman where he worked, he said that he was Indian ambassador to Cambodia. He thanked me and said that I was very welcome to the embassy. His simplicity was exemplary. He said that he was from West Bengal and his wife, from Kerala. I think that all parents of today's children and youth should learn a lot from this couple.
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