One of my friends shared her experience with the so called ‘Religious followers of god’ a few days back, which reinforced my faith in the fact that India is still full of people whose so called religious sentiments are weaker than a burnt twig!
This incident took place in Delhi (sadly it’s Delhi, but then, it’s not just about this place. The issue cuts all the state boundaries but only reaches the border of our country) The ‘Kanwaria’ procession is quite famous in North India, obviously for the immense faith put in by the people who travel so long to prove how much they value god. More famous in Delhi for the 2-3 km long traffic jams it causes and the innumerable missed appointments, classes and probably loss of lives because of it. But shhhh…. The government might read it. I am lucky that I am not a famous blogger; else I would be put behind bars for writing this truth. That’s how it works- Religion it is!
My friend was driving to college for her evening class. While the kanwarias were walking on the side of road, a few of them were standing in the middle of the road, blocking it for the vehicles that would otherwise pass by easily. All of them had rods in their hands. After waiting for good 5 minutes or so for them to move, all in vain, my friend, in inverted commas, “Made a mistake of honking slightly, once” to ask those illiterate people to give her way on the road for which she pay taxes regularly and on which, those people have no right to stand aimlessly in the name of god. The strong believers of god rushed to her car, and in no time, surrounded it and started banging the rods on the window panes until one of them broke. If you are still reading, please note that all this happened in broad daylight in presence of at least 20 vehicles just around and no single person coming to help her. But that’s not the point anyways. The point here is that even after all this happened, and with great difficulty when she managed to escape the scene by her presence of mind, all that the police people 200 meters away could say to her was “Madam aap to nikal jao, hum dekh lenge”.
Yeah sure, we have grown up to see how the police ‘sees to it’ in India!.
It is ridiculous that while on one hand people in India are going crazy about beef ban and digitalization through changing Facebook DPs, they still are very much fine with waiting for 2 hours in traffic for absolutely no reason other than the shit thrown in their face in the name of religion. Everyone is frustrated, everyone has suffered, but they forget after 2-3 hours and move on. No one discusses these things. I may have gone just a little step ahead to write about it, but then even I stop here. Some people may empathize, some may sympathize with such incidents. It’s all in vain if there’s no thought in someone’s mind wherein the government would be forced to take law and order out of the hands of people who claim to be god-lovers and make sure it’s handed over to those responsible people who believe in it and do not use it as a cheap tool to show their frustration and fulfill their whimsical fancies!
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