Every day there is a new scam, a new leader, administrator, politician behind bars. Every day there is someone who ought to be giving to society, taking from the economy instead. Every day, the people who are hired/voted/in positions to protect us, disappoint us, leaving the stage open for someone new, appearing to bring in hope, to step into the limelight. Apathetic, we watch the drama as mere spectators.
Considering the kind of news that is being presented to us on television and in print and in every other form available, life has become very difficult to live. You cannot step out of your house for any of the below reasons:
1. Petrol price hike every two months.
2. Attendant price rice of vegetables and essential provisions, you don’t dare go out shopping for you may not have money to pay in your purse.
3. Eve-teasers who bully women and kill men who try to protect them
4. Apathetic policemen
5. Drunken cadre who abuse motorists like the professor who drove slowly on a Chennai road blocking their path.
6. Apathetic policemen
7. Dustbins spilling stinking rubbish on the roads
8. Apathetic corporators
9. Speeding motorists liable to hit you and drive on
10. Speeding buses
11. Murderous water lorries that don’t look behind when they reverse...
You can add yours to the list...
But the fact remains that either which way, you and I lose, despite our fasts and candle-light vigils, in large groups where we feel warm, cocooned and safe. The shivering spectators who watch vicariously, with no guts to intervene are us. We have no excuse. Every day we get raped, and we don’t know it.
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