The best way to know the self is feeling oneself at the moments of reckoning. The feeling of being alone, just with your senses, may lead you to think more consciously. More and more of such moments may sensitize ‘you towards you’, towards others. We become regular with introspection and retrospection. We get ‘the’ gradual connect to the higher self we may name Spirituality or God or just a Humane Conscious. We tend to get a rhythm again in life. We need to learn the art of being lonely in crowd while being part of the crowd. A multitude of loneliness in mosaic of relations! One needs to feel it severally, with conscience, before making it a way of life. One needs to live several such lonely moments. One needs to live severallyalone.

Sunday 18 August 2013

IT IS NO BIG DEAL WHEN EVEN DEATH CASES ARE HANDLED EASILY WITH CASH COMPENSATION!

LIFE - COLORES INFINITUM (39)


“O Sahab, let’s us settle it between us, why to involve the police, tell us how much you need, after all it is just a small accident. It is no big deal when even death cases are handled easily with cash compensation.”  

An unwelcome suggestion, a disturbing tone and a menacing voice!

This was one of the suggestions (and the veiled threat) made by a goon looking guy to the person who had just met an accident when a commercial minivan run by one of the stooges of the guy had rammed into the standing bike of the person.

Though the person stood his ground, called the police, waited for them to come while getting veiled threats and suggestions from the cartel of the goons who were running that illegal minivan business near one of the busy Delhi Metro stations, the subsequent details of the incident were reflective of the overall deterioration in the society.

Deterioration of values in the society – it is not dystopian to write so, but it is about being realist.

How easily the fellow could say that loss of a life could be compensated easily with money?

A loss of life can never be compensated. The pain of separation never heals.


But the insensitivity and the moral disintegration of the society and its various formations have become so common that one can easily find such goons talking this or the similar other nonsense ironies almost on a daily basis, almost everywhere.

People kill people and they move on as if the person killed didn’t even exist.

People see people being killed and they move on as if the person killed didn’t even exist.

The System is getting insular to the pain afflicting everyone while selectively recruiting the victim and the assailant.

This one incident was reflective of countless such incidents happening every passing moment, everywhere.

Nothing much happened to them – to the assorted goons of the cartel there. Though the police tried to sound sympathetic to the person (largely due to his ID), the primary response was that police could not do much in the case as it was a minor accident.

On being told about legality of the permission to run the minivan business there, the police official said he would look into the issue and would ensure that they didn’t operate from there anymore.

Next day, it was the business as usual, the same spot, minivans overloading passengers, drivers driving rash!

Rule of law needs the element of fear in the mind of those who break the law but corruption in the apparatus to ensure the rule of law has killed that spirit, has made that need redundant.

It results in the mentality where people disregard every other life while trying to corner the maximum of the sky for them.

And it is fast becoming a commonality.

People are rapidly forgetting the difference between human and inhuman.

It is a big lie and an unforgivable crime.

And indeed this crime-to-the-humanity has become a regular part of our social weaving. There are many wars going on within India that has become a society dissected with religion, caste and region biases. The killing teeth of these biases become even more lethal with the chronic corruption that has become a way of life in India.

When someone finds an easy, alternative but corrupt route to earn easy bucks for which someone else has to work hard, the person starts losing every regard for the disciplinary rules of life.

We are living in a society when we hear debates about issues like ‘legalizing bribery’ or formalizing the ‘convenience fee’.

Expecting a work done without paying bribe, in almost every walk of life has become a next-to-impossible thing, be it health service, education, police or even the so-called social security measures like MNREGA or farm-debt-waiver or the upcoming food security.

The request of a threatening eye and a menacing voice was, like always, reiterating this only.

©/IPR: Santosh Chaubey - http://severallyalone.blogspot.com/