In India, the difference is that there is a "ruler" but that does nothing to help. India is ruled by chaos. There is absolutely no order, no discipline, nothing. Things happen "mostly" and if they do happen, they happen "somehow." By hook or crook, something happens and it moves on.
But what is amazing is that it is still functional. Inspite of all this, trains run on tracks and cars run on roads. Inspite of it, millions reach their place everyday and millions more do what they had planned. And inspite of it all, the economy still grows at 8% annually.
Two things found in India are typical of India. The great Indian "road tamasha" and the monsoon.
The Indian road is something unique from across the vast spaces of my knowledge. Here, chaos is only player. Vehicles continously honk, jump signals, drive rashly and travel to the left as well as the right of the road. Inspite of this, the traffic moves forward, however slowly and accidents are quite rare when we compare it with the frequency with which the laws are flouted.
The monsoon is something different. It is something natural and specially made for India. Although our geography textbooks claim that the monsoon winds travel from south-west to north-east in the general direction of the Punjab plain, the winds rarely travel in that direction is what I have observed. Being passionate about weather, I often waste my time observing things like these, especially during the monsoon and I have found that the wind blows in all directions from all sides yet collectively move towards the Punjab plain.
This is extremely typical of India, where despite chaos and confusion, the country still grows at high rates and overall direction is forward.
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