After a Gap of an year and half... my second one in 2 days... May be I am getting the hang of this :)

A for Ambulance:

This is an incident which happened to me couple of weeks back in Bangalore's chaotic traffic. I was travelling on the bike with a friend of mine in the mid afternoon and we could hear an ambulance behind us with its siren pretty loud. We were discussing on the bike that it is kind of pretty far behind but the sorry fact was that there was huge pile of vehicles which were behind us and it was pretty much impossible for ambulance to move fast as it is required to. The problem was not because of the people are not moving aside but in Bangalore the roads are too narrow (mostly) for the vehicles. In case you need to move aside for any reason the vehicles including buses need to park themselves inside the parking lots of buildings which loom over the roads of Bangalore. But even those should be always filled as every other road in Bangalore are used as official parking spots for all the offices. Even 75% of the cars used by the people in my office are parked on the road.



But even after these constraints the ambulance got its way through and just got passed us too. And then came the signal and it was just about when the ambulance reached the signal it just turned red. This being a cross road immediately and instinctively the traffic from the left side started moving. The first vehicle on its side of the road was a girl on a two wheeler waiting for the signal to turn green with the ambulance siren screeching right behind her. We were three rows behind the ambulance. May be the girl was following traffic rule that you should not move when the red light is on, but she should know that when an ambulance needs to move all the other vehicles stop or give way. The more irritating factor was that the vehicles from the other side was not even trying to stop, and no traffic cop around to get the ambulance to move. I really got irritated with the girl for starters and then the rest. The irritation level shot up sitting on the bike and watching the ambulance driver waving his hands asking the girl to move aside and she's looking as if the somebody was trying to kill her or asking her to kill someone. This really ticked me off, I just got down from the bike and walked up to the girl and simply said to her move over.. she was wondering what the hell hit her, I had to then tell her MOVE OVER... because the ambulance needs to go. Guess that's when she realised that it was an ambulance behind her and I think it was her headphones which did not allow her to know it was the ambulance (may be phone conversation or may be some song).



She moved aside and the ambulance started moving again but could not cross the intersection because the vehicles from the other side were not stopping. All of them wanted to go before the ambulance could cross and not wanting to wait for that ten seconds or may be less and let the ambulance go. I was moving back to my bike and when I saw the ambulance still unable to move forward, went back just stood in the middle of the cross road and just stood there. This made the ambulance driver realise he could move and the others realised that they needed to stop. AND THEY DID. As this was happening was looking out for the traffic constable and spotted him at one of the corners having his cup of chai and may be a smoke along with it.



Once the ambulance had moved out and I started walking back to the bike and I spotted the traffic constable walking towards the signal and I could actually see that he could not look at me. All people in the traffic had to do was, just think what would they have wanted to happen if they were inside the ambulance, it should have solved the problem.



From this simple incident we can understand one fact which I had earlier posted on Facebook let me write that again " The Problem in this World is Not illiteracy or poverty or religion or...anything we normally say... I think the problem is the lack of respect for other living beings..As soon as we HUMANS start giving a small thought before doing or not doing something to another living being " What would HE/SHE feel when someone does the same thing to HE/SHE" ...
WORLD WOULD DEFINITELY BE A BETTER PLACE..



This is the first of a series of blogs from A to Z ....



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C - CRICKET (INDIAN PHANNY LEAGUE)

Its more than an year and half since my last and only blog... But something ' s pushing me to write... its nothing but the CIRCUS In TOWN - IPL (India Premier League). There are lot of expansions for IPL other than the obvious, for instance Indian Paisa League, Indian Political League, Indian Panga League, I have decided to join the bandwagon and give it my version, "Indian Phanny League". Phanny as in Funny... coz it is funny.

The incidents happening in and around the IPL, just proves the saying "Higher you go Harder you Fall". The argument is mainly based on the fact people have made money and tons of it. My argument is that when the IPL was conceptualised, it was meant for the making of those tons of money. The whole business model of IPL is that everyone involved in this is making money. The IPL commissioner, the IPL Governing Council members, BCCI, Franchisees, the Media, the players and anyone involved has made the money. People are saying that its all Public money, to them I say this: No one is forcing us to go and watch the match at the stadium or on the Television. We can always boycott the matches in the stadium and can switch channels. We are all watching this because it is an interesting, short version of the game and it is economically viable for almost everyone (atleast in the cities where they are held). So its not just or right to complain that they are playing with our money. The valid reason for us to worry about our hard earned money is when companies holding the shares of the Franchises have used the funds generated from the public (through stocks, shares or any other mode). But I have defense on behalf of the companies on this too, you are earning dividends and profit shares from the money you invested. The returns received by you are part of the profits of the company and the IPL is a PROFIT MAKING business. So as a matter of fact the public is actually earning money rather than losing it (or at least those of us who have invested in the franchisees or their affiliates).

The funny fact is that all this Tamasha had started from "God's Own Country" trying get into this Circus; leading one to believe that probably not even God could get in if He wanted to (its my personal interpretation of course!). The fact of the IPL Governor being a sort of Untouchable needs to be changed at any cost. First of all the IPL organisation cannot be a private sort of organisation, it needs to be in the Public Forum at all times. The issue I have here is in the way that this 'event' is being managed, so bizzare and phanny (using it again). Politicians and media both trying very hard to show that they are getting to the root of the problem but what they are actually doing is protecting their own interests. Where the question of 'Public Interest' arises in this I am not sure.

The corruption in the IPL is something that needs to be looked into by the authorities coz as they are digging deeper into it they ought to be finding things which are really crappy and unethical. The looking needs to be done by people who are in public agencies like IT, ED or CBI departments, and never ever by the politicians. The politicians who are accusing and counter accusing are not Raja Harishchandras infact they are worse than the worst liars in the history and more corrupted than.. don't know whom to compare them with.. just know that they are the worst. So when they are talking about all this in the media, don't really know why the journalists are not able to turn around and ask them how can they be questioning, when they do almost everything above the law.

Don't really know what you guys will make of this blog and don't really know how to conclude this but let me just say that if "All's Well That Ends Well", then for our sakes... let this end as "BAD OUT and GOOD STAY".