We are the Ba*****s of Bharat! I think we shall remain HITS (ignore the spelling) forever. We do not want to learn. On the other hand, we want to learn exactly the opposite of what we should have learned. Consider the following everyday experience.
In India, every small room seems to be a reputed school where every student gets cent percent marks! Open the school’s main door, and your first step lands in the street. Every school is student full; there is no shortage of them. Looking at these teeming student crowd which is ever increasing, I often wonder about the marvelous work their parents must be engaged in, tirelessly. Without the great efforts of their parents, these children wouldn’t even exist!
Many parents bring their children to school on two-wheelers. With at least two or more kids on the vehicle, the rider usually a parent, it balances precariously. On that small rush-driven, fully potholed road, the rider balances himself every second from the fall. If you see a rider parent, you would say the performance easily outshines a trapeze artist at a circus. The three children on the bike, with terror in their eyes, cling to each other desperately. I always felt they weren’t going to school—but to their death! God bless them all.
Mother/Father rider will be wearing an old helmet but the children on the bike have no minimum protective gear. And all parents will only take short cuts, even if it means riding the bike on the wrong side of the road! Who Cares? Please note there is no ‘one-way’ or ‘two-way’ streets in India…we only have ‘always’ streets! Risk of collision, death, disability does not matter; but the children should not miss the school! I request the readers to appreciate the dedication of parents and the children!
Thus, everyday the parents are unfailingly teaching children through the ride the following life’s lessons:
- It is okay to ride a two-wheeler on the wrong side of the road.
- It’s okay to ride the bike with more than three people excluding the rider.
- It’s perfectly okay not to wear a helmet and double okay not to buckle it.
- It’s okay to honk the horn as many times as you want.
- It’s okay to jump a red traffic signal.
- Motor Vehicles Law? My foot. Who cares about a license?
It is easier to bend a plant than a tree. It is difficult to discipline a grown person, if you fail to discipline him as a child. If the parents are being careless, what can anybody do? What the parents fail to teach cannot be taught by the school or the law or the police. An Indian may earn a good for nothing university degree but still lack basic civic sense. These very people become hardened thugs and rogues, and they will, in turn, pass the same on to their progeny.
The government’s money, social media, and technology have all become useless. How can social media teach what was not taught by the parents? Culture, education and religion are dead and irrelevant. The young plant became an unbendable tree. The child has grown into a man with bad habits, and nothing can ever change him. He will remain SHIT forever. Don’t you think only death by accident can permanently remove these insensitive BA*****S of BHARAT!
About the Author
Dr. K. Raja Gopal Reddy is a seasoned internationally qualified Insurance professional. What you are reading here, may not answer all the questions we have, but has the absolute power of asking unsettling questions which increase the interest in the strange world, and show the contradictory wonders lying just below the surface of the commonest things of life. Look at this disturbing but beautiful thought of Friedrich Nietzsche “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him”.
Dr. Reddy can be reached at: raja66gopal@gmail.com
