“We have evidence, we have the culprit, and we have the witnesses………..but what we don’t have is the justice.”
Pragnya P Mohanty
Every time we suffer at the hands of terrorist, our suffering is instant and continues forever, because we are the public. What follows after such attacks is en-cashing of such incidents. Starting from politicians who use such incidents as a medium for votes and earning through the aids coming from various sources. In this the NGO’s also benefit quite a lot. Then it’s the media. They make sure to get each and every profit out of it, not only immediately but also a year after. They use the sentiments of general public to gain the huge revenue that flows in.
After every attack it’s said Delhi’s Spirit, Mumbai’s spirit etc. etc. But what choice the general public has other than moving on. We are bound to move on since we don’t have the choice. We know we are not going to get any protection and nothing concrete is going to be done. All the security and alertness is for a few days. Once the things start cooling down, all the security and checking in the public places are done just for the sake of formality only, traffic police officer talking on mobile phone while managing traffic at signals, security officer sipping tea & police officer dozing off at the check post are some of the common sights.
Taj Hotel under fire after terrorist attack
Photo by: Priyam Dhar
Government spending some crores per year which comes to around some lakhs per day to protect the terrorists like Ajmal Kasab, 26/11 terrorist attack captured in Mumbai attack, is a shame. Why so much farce of justice when we know what was the truth. He killed people mercilessly, openly and we are giving him more than a VIP’s treatment. For his medical treatment expensive Doctors are called in. What about those who suffered because of him? How much is government spending for those people? What have the victims like some of those kids who either lost a limb or gravely injured in some or the other form due to these terrorist attacks, got from government? We need justice in this as well. Don’t be unjust to the innocents and just to those merciless killers.
Mumbai terrorist attack accused Ajmal Amir Kasab
We are no more ready to forget and forgive such inhuman acts.
Amitabh Bachchan’s comment on Kasab
Diwali wishes to all the readers of the Weconscious.
Diwali - the Festival of Lights
Diwali is a festival of prayers to Lakshmiji and Ganeshji, sweet and celebration of festivity with diyas and candles. One more thing that is a synonym with Diwali is crackers.
The festivity with crackers during the global warming damages our environment and increases the pollution in a single night manifold. In addition to the pollution of air, sound and the environment damages us for long term.
The pollution from crackers is something that effects the environment but affects the individuals to quite an extent. Ask those who suffer from heart ailments or the people suffering from asthma. The noise pollution affects almost everyone. The harmful gases & the loud noise that the crackers emanate not only affect human beings but adversely affects also the animals and birds.
With this article we do not intend to hurt the religious feeling of any one. It’s just that we want each one of us to be aware of the disadvantages of the crackers and it’s ill effect on us.
Lets make a point and celebrate a Bright, Green and Calm Diwali. Lets say no to Crackers.
We have listed a few reasons of not to use fireworks.
- It can cause serious injuries
- Generate noise and air pollution
- Pollution caused by fireworks creates a major problem for asthmatics, sick, old and animals
- It’s toxic
Happy Diwali and say no to CRACKERS.
Image: dhondusaxena
The Ring Road is hardly a circle and the Capital’s civic reputation, seldom exemplary. Yet, no matter how you abuse and where you curse, this city is perfectly livable and enjoyable. We enjoy the Blue Lines on laid back Sunday mornings and curse the smelly passengers standing alongside on another working day. The gubbaras hit our face and get us into a rage while the next hour we aim gubbaras at others to celebrate Holi. And long before you realize you have become a part of the city. This realization knocked me on a warm summer day in Kolkata in 2002. I exited from the Howrah station and looked around for an auto. To my surprise, I could spot none. It came to me in a flash that autos in Kolkata are not the ‘yellow and green’ of Delhi. I found swarms of black autos around me.
Yellow-Black Autorickshaw
The bone rattling experience inside the yellow-green autos is the Dilliwallah’s unique nouveau culture. While one would fleece you to the bone, another will be the guardian of morality calling you to return your lost cellphone. Pimped to the teeth with streamers, distorted images of Bollywood’s queens, stereo and a dysfunctional fare-meter, auto-rickshaws in Delhi are a class apart. My experience with auto rides in the city has been vivid and extreme, much like my confrontation and assimilation with the rest of its cultures. I narrate here the most bizarre of them all.
A decade removed from the hustle bustle of the city is a sleepy locality called Gandhi Vihar. Local auto wallahs ply on the dusty route between Kingsway Camp and Gandhi Vihar on ‘fixed, fare and share’ system. I had gone to meet an old friend at Gandhi Vihar and I boarded this shared-fared auto on my way back home. Three sit at the back and two on the driver’s flanks; left and right.
With some reluctance, I occupied the last remaining seat on the driver’s left flank. We were soon speeding down the deserted street that connects Gandhi Vihar to the rest of Delhi. It overtook a cyclist and something curious buzzed around us. Within a few seconds it erupted again trying to overtake a pedestrian, “hat ja tao panache ne, naachan de jee bharke”.
‘Is that the horn?’ I asked hesitatingly and the driver beamed, ‘Ha. yeh haran hai’. We soon landed on the concrete road towards Batra Cinema and the street lights greeted us back to the city. The horn buzzed incessantly, snaking its way through the flood of people. I wonder if they realized what this was. Everything made way for our green and yellow war horse. The war horse advanced with its war cry and its soldiers poking their heads from the flanks.
Public transportation has its own drawbacks (read charms). The list of drawbacks hitherto included is over charging, bargaining and time consumption. I added ‘muscial horns’ to the list.
Weconscious has come up by combining two words “WE” & “CONSCIOUS”. Thereby meaning, we the people who ought to be conscious about our rights & duties. We Conscious is a pious effort to highlight, show, and educate people of the various monsterheads of corruption, moral degradation and gross civic negligence that are rampant in our society. It’s an effort to highlight the illegalities we suffer on day to day basis.