Crafting a Heart!

Have you ever thought how beautiful we human beings are? Well, definitely not in the present context of the happenings distressing the world. But its true we are beautiful. And we can’t fetch one because to find one you have to be one. We don’t take care of our soul for sure. Just think what have you done lately to nourish it? How it can be healthy if you don’t feed it well?

Anyways, I am digressing. I was thinking to write about something else.

I am a big-time lover of the series made in our neighboring country, Pakistan. Yes, being from India, Pakistan seems to be our perennial enemy but believe me we were together thriving as a single country a few years ago celebrating all our festivals together. We have parted in 1947 out of some reason which doesn’t even make any sense but believe me I get a different vibe while I interact with people across the border. 

I have two friends from there. One of them is a doctor from Dera Ghazi Khan and another is from Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. They both belong from different social background for sure but I have noticed one thing in common which I wasn’t expecting. Both of them don’t hate Indians. This was surprising considering the bitter past we had. Just a little bit of browsing in YouTube will depict you the same story if not of mutual admiration. Where you will find digital fights using slurs in the comment section you will also find the mutual love and respect connecting over music or food or something else. So, coming back to where I started, the series made in Pakistan.

My Country - In not so bright light!

I am not at all a news person. I know you will find it pretty repugnant. This apathy is not because it doesn’t affect me directly but because it keeps me wavering in confusion regarding the veracity of the sources.

Let me enumerate a few incidents which claimed lives and affected us in recent times.

1. Definitely “not-to-be-named” Corona. Death: 28,078 Affected:11,52,3552. Floods in Bihar, North East, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Gujrat, Kerala, Karnataka, etc. to name a few. Death: 1900 Affected: 25,00,000

3. Road Accident Deaths: 68,000 (yearly it is 1,36,000 on an average since last decade)* (Govt. is claiming there is a dip in this number) 4. Death of Migrant Labors: 383. No. of people who tried to migrate: 50,000** 5. Menace of Amphan and Nisarg. Death: 100 Affected: 1,00,00,000 6. Communal Violence (considering Delhi Riot only) Death: 53 Affected: 200

These are a few incidents which came on the top of my mind without doing any research. I am sure the numbers will be much more than this. But whom to blame? “THE NATURE”? How had been our proactive or reactive resolutions for it? As citizens are, we in the safe hands?

Let’s be honest. We definitely aren’t in the safe hands. The people who had been embellished with our trusts in all these years after the Independence could have done far better.