IMF Chief, Prime Minister of Italy, Film Stars – Super stars, Ministers Son, and so on. Look on the road, for everyday you will see a large subsidized SUV which runs on subsidized diesel parked right in the middle of the road, for he is asking directions and when you get to peek inside by the side of the vehicle – deeply annoyed having to navigate the inching traffic on a small underdeveloped main road – you will see a burly looking white clad gold ornamented hand holding on to a cell phone speaking, and his cabin mate asking for directions, behind him is a long line of traffic pile up.
Go further and you will see how near the Chief Ministers Official Residential Bungalow is a long line of cars parked on either side of the road, right below the no parking sign – and all of this is guarded by the law maintaining police – vehicles that bear the state sticker, most belong to other ministers or cronies huddled together to save their ministry and claim to power, as you wait for the traffic to be cleared by the inspector, who salutes in attention when the official vehicle passes by, for he most often doesn’t know whom he saluted due to the dark cling film used to screen window glasses – he salutes nevertheless.
Creator brings in all beings equally to the world and civilized that we are, eventually categorise each one of us to the convenience that we eventually develop to. Plunder the forests, for you see on both sides of the state highway through Bandipur tiger sanctuary, there are no trees 30 metres deep on either side; for it wouldn’t need a CBI probe to know where they went. Encroached rivers – divested of their sand across most rivers; and lake beds that have turned to developed real estate property – all around exploitation stares you wondering, where one would take all of this – for we all know that we are mere visitors here. We exploit the illiterate and poor, cheat the voting masses, poach and kill animals, overuse the resources to an extent, that even the exploiters would feel for it when it is time to leave. And we continue to do such…civilized we are!
All that we as human race are capable of leaves us not an inch better than what we are made of… flesh and bones… all that we are, are and will remain no better than any animal, they could be the better ones – they at least do not pretend to think… power corrupts and corrupts absolutely !
