Humanity ?

[Guest guest]

My dear friends and like minded persons

 

I am feeling discomfort when I observe the on going tendency of total

disrespect to fellow human beings. We are living in a so called civilized

society where mutual respect and living comforts are expected for a peaceful

co-existence. We are expected to be kind hearted towards the less fortunate in

society. We have made laws to respect the physically challenged. We have set

up homes for mentally retarded. We have created shelters for the aged. We give

preference to Ladies and we love children and it is our Culture since centuries.

We offer clothing, food etc to the poor and it is an inbuilt tendency of any

Indian. We could not give up this tendency even when we were to face several

challenges and threats in the past and even when we were subjected to butch.

 

I am worried about such strong roots of our culture being given up when I see

an ambulance carrying a patient on his death bed is not given a way in spite of

its repeated signals and siren. The roads are blocked up by two/three/four

wheelers. The drivers are deriving sadistic pleasure of shutting down the doors

of their ears. Still the drivers try for their own way somehow or the other

with an utter disregard to the life in question of a patient in an ambulance.

 

Which rule framed by us can do wonders, when humanity is dead? We are no less

than terrorists, when we show a deaf ear to the siren of an ambulance. This is

not our culture and this is not what is taught to us by our ancestors.

 

We have only three options in front of us, instead of blaming the Government

or the fellow drivers. The first option is to educate the drivers and children.

Let us start this at our home, let each of us display a notice in our houses

mentioning that an AMBULANCE NEED TO BE GIVEN PREFERENCE in the traffic. Siren

of an ambulance should by all means be given preference if necessary each of us

getting down from our vehicles and paving a way to the ambulance.

 

The second option is such where Government interference is needed. Each

Ambulance driver is given authority to penalize the way blockers by levying a

penalty of say Rs.500/- or so. High penalties are considered as utmost best

tools in the hands of the Government for enforcement of discipline in many

advanced countries even. A penalty causes alertness and it imposes automatic

discipline.

 

The third option is to educate children. A habitual lesson from childhood is

expected to mould a better citizen of the future years.

 

Let us do something.

Yours truly, HARA HARA MAHADEVA DR P V SESHA SAI ASWAMEDHAYAAJI

 

Dr P V Sesha Sai Aswamedhayaaji

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11th September 2007