What I am going to write about now is a actually a paradoxical situation, but I never leave an opportunity to use a bad pun!
Morons â thatâs what they actually are.
With âtheyâ, I mean people in authority, people who think they have a right to decide who gets what resources, and impact the lives of millions, and people who actually do, but are not responsible enough!
With what we do, we have to visit these tiny villages, sometimes located in the most mesmerizing locations! This little world of people has a world of itâs own problems. Here they are struggling to live. To live at least till the next moment, next day. When you visit them, you realize the whole futility of trying to find life somewhere else when we canât even respect most of them here. Now. At this moment. Alive.
Last year I set out to go to a tiny place, near Kasara.
At the first glance, it was a breath-taking view! Wow. What more could one ask for! I mean people pay crazy amounts to go live in a place like this â be it only for 5 days! I was standing at one of hills surrounding Upper Vaitarna dam, and overlooking a village on another hill-top. What beauty!
But there was no road to get there. So we climbed down “our” hill, and climbed up the adjacent one! No connect, no roads was the just the beginning of their miseries. It did not hit me so hard till we actually reached the village, and oh my, what we saw was what I used to think was just a sure-shot formula for a successful movie! People had no water to drink. TO DRINK. Forget spa, Jacuzzi, have a bath, or even cook! Let us not even speak about water therapies! They did not have water to drink, when they were surrounded by a dam, that gives water about 200 km away! I cannot emphasize on this more!
Government is trolling them. In their face!
Can you see the little rocky trench? Can you see a little wet portion above the 3 buckets in the trench? So what actually is happening is, there a few drops of water coming out of those rocks â and this is âpaani aayaâ situation for them! This is how they fill water. Drop-by-drop. And can you see the queue of vessels? By the time even one fills up, we would have wasted 10 of those â just putting things in perspective!
We have heard this a lot. I mean I wonât say I havenât seen millions of pictures (award-wining) or videos where people are struggling to fill their bucket. It doesnât hit you so hard, till you donât see it. For yourself. It was the saddest, the most helpless moment of my life for me. Very clichĂ©d,  but this was like a âSwades-momentâ of my life.
I know for a reader like you, this will yet again be another story, heard from someone else-you will empathize with it, may be even agitate a little, but it will not make you think twice before the hot water shower bath! Still, on my end it is attempt to show the reality. And our so-very-efficient government!
You know what was worse? I came home and told about this to a few people, and the reaction I get is â âyeh toh kuch bhi nahi hai, waha toh aisa hai, yahaan toh waisa hai, aur woh toh sabse bura hai!â
Seriously?! Signing off before I canât stop myself from adding another bad pun!
