Alternative Thinking.

We arrived at our clinic on Thursday afternoon to find it closed. A note explained the closure to the fact that the following day was Good Friday. It was not there at close of play on Wednesday. We normally reserve Thursdays for work other than our manual therapies, so we had re-scheduled the Friday patients for Thursday afternoon. So as usual we were well inconvenienced as were others who wanted to use the gymnasium and Wellness Center.

This all comes under the heading of Alternative Thinking or possibbly just Not Thinking. Alternative implies Indian rather than Western. Consider the following story.
A notorious criminal has now managed to escape police custody on five occasions. It seems that the escape plan is the same each time. It is no more than the prisoner obtaining a doctor’s certificate and on the way to the hospital shaking off the guards and running. Has no-one thought to shackle the man? Well, yes they have and it’s been discussed in the media. We surmise that the policemen given the job of escorting the prisoner have not been told of his propensity to run off.
Bureaucratic communication is not good in India.

Of course, there can different interpretations. Here’s one. The prisoner could be in the pay of a politician, who pays the police not to do their job.
In this world of smoke and mirrors who knows? Certainly nobody seems to care.