My India

  In a recent incident that happened in Agra-India, a poor man accidentally got run over by a train. Miraculously he survived the incident. He had lost both his limbs and couldn’t move. As he lay bloodied in the tracks,people surround  him and watch. They keep watching. A few found the incident so funny that they laughed over it. Not a single man upheld his manhood and came forward to lend a hand. While all this was happening, a second train was on its way over the same tracks. Upon seeing the speeding train, the crowd instead of removing the man from the tracks,  just signal/shout at the train to stop. As expected the train doesn’t heed and run over the man the second time. Believe it or not, the man survives again. The crowd by this time gathers some sense and carries him away. He dies on his way to the hospital. His death was not because of the train but because of the insensitivity shown by the people. He had lost too much blood by the time rescue came his way.

  In an India where we boast of the number of billionaires, most expensive residential house, emerging world player , world military power etc etc, people are still uncultured and unrefined. This trait is not at all limited to the poor people but spans across rich and the affluent too. I remember once how a Mercedes stopped by a bridge, its driver coming out with a load of plastic waste and throwing it down the sea below. Now what type of education do we inculcate in such a rich fellow? Civic Sense is zero across Indians while self respect shoots above the Mount Everest. If an American or an European laughs on our state of affairs, we take it as an insult but at the same time do not try to make amendments towards it. Contemporary Indian Society believes in Killing the messenger rather than directly dealing with the problem. In a recent Incident wherein three politicians in Karnataka –India were caught watching porn clips in their mobile phones by a private news channel, the state parliament banned the entry of news channels inside the house. I just grinned and switched off the TV, imagining myself breaking the jaws of those ministers like every good citizen might have done.

  In a country where corruption is embedded so deep, in a country which lives on duplicity each passing second, and in a country where politicians are more criminals than educated ones, I fear the future. I fear the future of the young ones getting born without a guarantee that he/she will have a secure future. I fear the type of education that the young ones will receive and if they could benefit the society. I fear if these young minds will tomorrow become as selfish and unmoved by the sorry state of affairs surrounding them and I fear that I myself becoming a proud father one day is unknowingly contributing to the wretchedness of our society.

  The hope is however not dead and the fact remains that India is still progressing. Everyday I come across one story or another wherein a successful man quits his job for helping the poor, teaching the underprivileged, generating funds for making roads and schools etc etc, and its because of these god sent humans that this country still survives. It also proves the fact that like a Bull is equal to a thousand Cats, One good Human is equal to a thousand corrupt souls too. 

Link 1) : http://indiatoday.intoday.in/video/man-run-over-twice-by-trains-on-delhi-agra-line-dies/1/172781.html
Link 2) : http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-02-08/india/31036752_1_karnataka-ministers-karnataka-assembly-yeddyurappa