A frustrated engineering student’s Reddit post has gone viral after he declared, “I have started to hate my country,” citing civic apathy, mismanagement in public services, and lack of basic responsibility among fellow citizens. The long rant has struck a nerve online, sparking intense debate about India’s everyday failures in discipline and civic sense. Advertisement

Mother injured, friends who laughed

The student described how his 54-year-old mother slipped on discarded banana peels while buying groceries, leaving her with a badly injured knee. “Everyone knows people can slip on banana peel if we throw it on road, yet they do it… no literal civic sense,” he wrote.

He also recounted being ridiculed by his hostel friends after picking up snack wrappers and bottles instead of littering.

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