Life in a Metro - II

Ever thought of people who make our lives in these overconjusted cities comfortable:

1. A railway motorman/ Local Bus Transport Staff, who run their services, whatever may come...heavy rain, floods or a full fledged terrorist attack;
2. Municipal Corporation Employees working in various departments be it the cleaning, water supplies or any other such public service department - People who try to clean up all the dirt and garbage we drop on the road without giving a second thought, people who face the ire of public for lack of water supplies or for dirty public places. Ofcourse people dont realise that they are more responsible for all this. They spit Pan/ Gutka and defaecate in public places, waste litres and litres of clean drinking water in washing their vehicles and then righteously blame the government and the people running it;
3. Police who maintain law and order including Traffic Police - Ever imagined what it would be like to be a police officer under constant pressure from seniors officers and politicians or facing a continuous danger to his and his lovables' lives from criminals and yet stands a brave face before compromising - Ofcourse, we are all humans and I just imagine, what would I be like, had I been in their positions. Ever observed a Traffic Policeman standing on a busy square while the traffic lights have malfunctioned due to heavy rainfall, while he his still there - in the rainfall and trying his best to manage the traffic;

The list of such people would be endless, who without asking your caste or religion serve you day and night, try their best to make your lives comfortable without bothering about the lack of amenities at their own homes for their family - their lovables.

Last but not the least, before raising a finger towards them for being corrupt, being slow and all the other not so good things about them, lets have look at ourselves, have we been absolutely honest all our life? Do we pay all your taxes honestly? Do we have the civic sense to abide by the traffic laws, to not spit/ not urinate/ not throwing garbage in public places? Do we clean our pet's dropping from public places when we take them around for a stroll?

Thanks to these people with whose efforts, we are able to be comfortable in a city like Mumbai, Delhi, Bangaluru or any such place.. Its been their efforts only that we are able to sit cozily in our offices and homes and criticize them for not doing their worth.

And why only big cities, this applies to each and every city, town and village..


Let all of us help ourselves..

Life in a Metro

A few million people travel daily in inhuman conditions in Mumbai's Sub-Urban railways, or the BEST services fight like animals for a few inches of space, where they can put a foot, but are still tolerant towards those politicians whose inefficiency has landed them in such a situation.

The fact is, we dont have the courage to fight injustice. We pay taxes which are spent on the security bandobast and caravan of cars of the Mantriji, while we travel like flock of animals in an overconjusted slow moving train, continuously under threat of another Bomb Blast in our daily mode of transport.

Is somebody listening?

MAY GOD HELP US..

Be it Afghanistan or India

Just finished reading two wonderful works from Khaled Hosseini. Two of the most touching stories I have ever read. I started with The Kite Runner and by the time I completed reading, my hands were trembling and had a lump in my throat.

When I started reading A Thousand Splendid Suns, there was a time I felt my heart to be too timid to complete the book. The horrifying life the women and children were and are forced to live. Then I somehow completed the book and this time my heart was trembling.

Ofcourse these were works of fictions but these show the reality of life in Afghanistan, how the living conditions have deteriorated in the last 30 years. But for the greed of erstwhile Soviet Union and the U.S.A., this place could have been a better place to live.

How can GOD, the most merciful creator be so cruel with so many people at the same time. Now I wonder, what would the people of Iraq would be going through right now. Another place, human greed made a hell of.

Reading these two books, I found stark similarities with the lives women and children live in rural India, where people dont even think twice before killing their new born infant daughters, where women have no voice and have to live in a veil for their entire life, where love is a such a crime that girls are stripped and paraded before being killed in the name of family honour.

The truth is, what happens in the tribal areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan happens in rural areas of a democratic country like India, which boasts of equal rights for all its citizens and claims to be the leader of the world in the 21st Century.

How do we claim our country to be on the doorsteps of the developed world, when half of our population is still not enjoying the basic rights a human being deserves.

MAY GOD HELP US.