Ganga Behti ho kyun

 

                      Two soldiers of the Indian Army were beheaded and the bodies were sent to the Indian side. Thirteen CRPF men were brutally killed by the Naxalites in the latehar incident in Chhattisgarh the other day. The Naxalites slit open the stomach of a soldier and sew it back with an IED inside. The nation did not get outraged at any of it. Nobody went and lit candles at India gate , no one went on rampage on the streets, nobody took law into their hands, no judicial activism was shown, none of the film stars cried or tweeted.

                         We Indians are strange people.......our blood boils at certain incidents , at certain others we prefer to mind our business.....but when we are asked to mind our business we would poke our noses.

                          When asked to queue up, not jump red lights, not triple ride a two wheeler, not travel over roofs of the trains , not to spit paan masala in clean spaces, not to throw plastics in parks, not to pluck flowers, not to honk etc we are deaf.
                           When there is an accident on the road and the injured are lying on the road and need help we become blind too. We are blind when we sit comfortably in seats reserved for women , elderly and handicapped in trains and buses while they travel standing. We are blind and deaf when the national anthem is played in cinema halls before the screening of a movie.
                            But all is not wrong with us we have a very eloquent tongue and a very swift finger. We are very good at telling everyone else what is wrong with them and point fingers at them. We are quick to point out who all are not doing their jobs except ourselves
                            The mahakumbh saw an unprecedented numbers of devotees from all over the country and outside the country taking a dip at the sangam.......and the Holy Ganges. The question is can she take it all.....what if it starts minding its own business.