Saturday, August 16, 2008

Its not just about 'Sushi' and 'High Heels'.....



There's more beyond, what looks so bright and happy around me. I recently went for an official assignment. We went to an upper class residential area in Delhi. Right behind the upper class private residences was an extremely harrowing experience we were about to go through.

On the other side of the road was the bling and all that attached with it that you can think of and on our side was darkness of a huge amalgamation of poor masses from uncountable regions across India and its borders most expected! In a week of rainy depressing weather and the rising inflation nothing was more worse than this sight we saw. A mob of poor workers and inhabitants across the street with fear in their eyes, standing around a dead man's body lying inside the police van...

Somehow, that day I was prepared to take, whatever came my way. This was a conclusion to a sudden outrage among two drunken men..."that's what a man told us". "What are are you doing here?"..."These accidents keep happening here..day and night"... was the look and conversation among the policemen I overheard and sensed.

I still want to go back to that place and know more about the people who live among us in our civil society !