While you were enjoying and celebrating this festive season… the ganesh chaturthi… expressing jubilation over the high decibel sound of bursting of fire crackers and bomb explosions… in some remote village, there was some poor farmer forced to act as a bullock to plough his fields. And even after your festive celebrations are over and you are back to your routine life (still enjoying with kitty parties, office parties, partying at CCD… or basically trying to find any and every dumb reason to party) the difference is that, this farmer as many others, still continues to plough…!!!
And may be one day, one of them might even commit a suicide and you will prefer to turn over the newspaper page that describes this plight of the farmers… Just because you don’t want to spoil your mood early in the morning. But the truth is that, for any other time, you would do nothing different… giving yourself some other stupid reason to escape the news item.
Yes, it does happen… the city man of India conveniently skips from seeing the dark and gloomy face of India… the India that’s still struggling to only make a living. And for those who do care, may be just like you and me… won’t take any step forward than to write a small blog post, and forget about it the very next day. Probably only blaming the Indian government, cursing corruption, nature and all those myriad reasons that one could find to elude his/her responsibility. And if we all do manage to run off scot free, we hate to accept that we are fooling none other than our own selves. (more…)
