I could feel a warm tap on my ass as the pale breeze tickled me with its sensuous touch. The tap on my ass was from none other than the hottest body we ever knew, the SUN……sending its rays to wake me up. I still wasn’t out of my dream…neither did I want to as I was with my firm’s HR gal in some exotic place……dancing to a item number. As the song got over, I bid good bye to her and greeted the SUN as I started taking alcoholic steps towards the Loo with the newspaper in one hand and my tooth brush in another.

 As I opened the journal, I was taken aback with the headlines, “Stocks hit 17 K in flat 6 days” …..Man!! , I thought, India is going places. India is sure to become a super power. Some one in the Top league of SEBI said “ This is a result of the exploration done by the Indian companies and their men in the globalized world “ .I thought India’s vision of Global Powerhouse by 2020 was achievable. But as I turned to the next page, a picture of few people lying in the streets without a piece of cloth on them disturbed my imagination of a economically sound INDIA. Are we rising as a nation as projected in the media…??…….We fail to realize, on the other side of this Booming Economic country…..lays a country in dire straits. I began to realize that there are some terrible things which again the same men have failed to explore. …….the MEN themselves are to be explored………..!!

For YOU and ME, the streets are always a means to an end, But we fail to see those, for whom the streets are the very end. They lay there without a smirk .And in this very same country, when the power gets cut for an hour; there are people who create mayhem all over. 

On the day when the (great ?) Indian team after the T-20 WC was taken on a cavalcade, The Indian Captain made a statement “  I heard Mumbai is always on its toes. We have brought it to a standstill “ . A statement of pride was what it was meant to be. But he failed to realize what that meant to the daily wage laborer who lost his bread as he couldn't sail thru the crowd to his workplace, or to the woman who got her place taken by another as she had turned late for work where she earns a pittance for carrying bricks in the scorching sun. She being the lone bread earner in her family of four, had to go without food that day along with her chidren.

Thousands of people went without food on a day of celebration, and the biggest democratic country couldn’t do a thing about it….?? .All these so called chiefs of BCCI who happen to be ministers as well as the politicians, were busy endorsing their image for the forthcoming election by being a part of the cavalcade and never for moment did they regret about bringing the so called “Financial capital of India” to a abrupt stall.  

But the finger shouldn’t alone be pointed at them, it should be pointed at every single individual who  failed to see thru the eyes of a common man …….I too shamefully accept being a part of that. We all are blinded with a Cloth …..a cloth which we have donned as a  part of our body .It makes us toddle all along our life, unaware and uninterested on what happened to anyone other than our own kith and kin. It gives you a vision without you opening your eyes. It is we ,who have made this choice and it is up to us to  remove this cloth and open our beautiful eyes to see the WORLD as it is .

You will realize the change then……..Hopefully!!!

Sid.