Last week, I was travelling to my hometown by train. It made a halt at a place, I don't which station it was as it was really dark and I was inside a new "postered" Rajdhani Express. But I still could see clearly the train standing right next to ours. As we slowly swayed past the train, one stark reality hit me. There was a sparsely filled AC coach with people sleeping with all the leisures in the world. And right next to it was a general compartment, overflowing with people, people who don't know what leisure is, people who have to even fight for the little place to sit clumsily. This is the harsh reality of India. The great divide, with which every passing second is getting wider. Though its has always been present, in and around me, but don't know why it moved me that moment so much as to make me feel like crying.
Where will this end? Would those hard working souls just persih without being rewarded? I don't know. All I can see is a bleak future. How much ever the better becomes best, the true victory of a nation is tp lift the worse to atleast good!
15 comments:
Very true... such scenes really move us... when time comes we both together will surely do something for the society.
Keep Blogging!!! :)
I have noticed the same thing everywhere. There's a wall dividing two sectors here. One side, there are bungalows with at least one car for each family member... on the otherside, there are pedal rickshaw pullers fighting for everyday meal !!! whole bloody india is like that. money is always saturated in bank accounts of business leaders. there's no equal distribution at all. a truck driver does more hardwork than bank manager even then, manager has reputed salary and truck drivers, well. we all know. !
It's a very interesting thing to think about, and write about, and forget about. Work about? No.
@Ritesh
Yes we surely will do something! :-)
@Spectator
yes...you are right...its everywhere...
@Raja
I know people who work about this...but the number of those kind of people is very less...I wish there would be more people like that...
They "don't know what leisure is"... What makes you think that you know what it is :)... there definitely is someone flying thinking similarly looking at you
One cannot just sit back and witness the future (which one thinks is bleak).
Whenever I am in such a situation, I just ask myself, what is my contribution to this reality?
And is there something that I can do to make that future not so bleak.
It's with small drops that the ocean is made.
Take a small step, I am sure others will follow or join in!
Good to read your post... may be sometime I will read more.
Just thought to tell you.....
"Don't wait for time, it will never come... Try doing smallest thing YOU CAN"
Regards
Navrang
Thomas Robert Malthus thought about this long time back.
P. Anandh
Hi ,
I was reading ur blog posts and found some of them to be very good.. u write well.. Why don't you popularize it more.. ur posts on ur blog ‘treasure's gallery’ took my particular attention as some of them are interesting topics of mine too;
BTW I help out some ex-IIMA guys who with another batch mate run www.rambhai.com where you can post links to your most loved blog-posts. Rambhai was the chaiwala at IIMA and it is a site where users can themselves share links to blog posts etc and other can find and vote on them. The best make it to the homepage!
This way you can reach out to rambhai readers some of whom could become your ardent fans.. who knows.. :)
Cheers,
@Rajkumar
I at least know the leisure and have even experienced it a lot of time...most of the leisure in the world are accessible to people like us. What I meant in the post is, those guys didn't know the leisure of sleeping without any hassles etc...
@Kshitij and Navrang
Sure, I would definitely try to do something, might be small right now, but will do something! Thanks for dropping by! :-)
@Ray
Thanks a lot for dropping by and encouraging me. Its people like you who motivate me to overcome my laziness and write! I would surely visit rambhai.com ! Keep dropping by! :-)
Being moved is good... shows you are human.
Vsising ur blog after a long long time... I feel this concern is commendable but i really fell sorry for those people coz nothing can be done...its all destiny i feel...n who knows they may be more happier the way they are...its not money that always count !
That comment from Ray is a Spam unfortunately !!!
About this post, its good that you feel sensitive towards this... and I am sure an individuals sensitization does make a difference !
When the right time comes, do make an attempt to do something about it and feel free to ask for assistance as well !
I guess definition of leisure varies from person to person. did you find all those ppl crowded around each other unhappy ... cribbing.. ??
I *guess* they were pretty much content that they have place on a train to travel back to home.
Yes, the contrast and divide is there, but in India, where the population is more and resources less, scenes like this are quite quite common and almost impossible to eradicate completely. If the divide goes, can you imagine the life in India?
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