You must have heard that some localities rammed and then
burned a truck because the truck hit a boy of the locality and they even don’t
leave the driver too, without knowing that the accident was the boy’s fault.
They not only cause the damage to properties but they traumatize the driver
too, maybe for life. What I advise them to think is, that, they can someday be
a victim of a similar situation. What will he do at that point? Explain? No.
Before he even opens his mouth to explain, he will be severely bruised and
scarred for life, for a crime that he may have a minor contribution. These sort
of news are a common occurrence but we pay no heed to it.
Using democracy the wrong way, they instantly form groups to
stage protests, even if the government is planning a good initiative, but is
causing them a little discomfort. An individual now practices only the rights
that the constitution has given him, but what about the duties? If you can’t
spare a little discomfort for a good cause, then you are not a citizen that
India expects you to be. The situation is like this, that everyone wants India
to reach the zenith, but no one wants to compromise. If their lives are
compromised and they have to concede, they protest violently. It quite
disheartening to see the people of India takes violent steps thinking that it’s
the only way.
It’s like insensibility and insensitivity are the gifts of the century. It’s sad
and quite funny to see that groups fighting each other on an issue as tiny as
regulation of loudspeaker in an area. Why don’t they understand that there are
other people living too, who need some rest at their homes after day’s hard
work? But even ignoring the rules, they blow their loudspeakers out loud on
accounts of celebration or religious ceremony. WTF, even god doesn’t want you
to cause discomfort to others while praising him.
I wake
up every morning, hoping that this can be the day, that the ‘mob’ remained
inactive, just one day…but NO! a big fat NO as if that’s impossible. As I was
writing this column, fresh riots started off in multiple districts; here in
Allahabad, the Muslims started a row against the killings of Muslims in
north-eastern states. But the protest ended up being violent causing a curfew
being imposed in few parts of city. I hadn’t thought that I would get such a
fresh example to emphasize my point. This just proves that a mob is like a herd
of sheep directed by stimulants fuelled up by riots after riots.
One of
the reasons I can see is the Indian concept ‘Unity in diversity’, backfiring in
the backdrop. With the current riots forged between the north-eastern and the
Muslims, the stage is all set for bringing the failure to once-thought
brilliant concept.
Wait,
my angel part of brain thinks that there is still hope, what a douche!!! I will
listen to the devil this time…..there is no hope in living under such pitiful
circumstances, where you might be the next victim of let’s say an ethnic,
communal, sports hooligans, religious riot; unless the mentality of the riot-mind-infested
change for the good.
