If no-one helps you after a car crash in India, this is why
A very real, slightly non-obvious problem is the size of the Indian population itself. There are so many people here that, competition is a stronger emotion than community. To an extent that sometimes it is considered normal to put someone else at risk for your benefit, while self-empathizing along the lines of "Hey, if I don't do it, someone else will stamp on that person to move ahead in life."<p>Competition is everywhere.<p>- Want a seat in a University? Compete with, <i>literally</i> a million others for just one seat.<p>- Want a train ticket to travel within India? Login to the IRCTC exactly at 8 am, and pray that the next 5 seconds is your lucky time.<p>- Want to travel via local train? Hang on to the windows outside (Mumbai).<p>Too many people that -- it is dangerously becoming almost culturally normal to prioritize your life over someone else's. Combine this with the corrupt administration, and poor infrastructure... and it is painful to think about.<p><i>We're forgetting humanity at the cost of too many humans to compete with.</i><p>That being said, there are definitely people who <i>do</i> help. Helpful people in India are in fact, extremely helpful. I've received help myself. But these days, the probability of that happening is perhaps decreasing.