These are the sort of news reports we Indians have become used to reading every day. All these are from today's papers:
In Bangalore, a bus was set ablaze after a motorcyclist was killed
In Ahmedabad, a state transport bus ran over 5 little schoolkids
In Jaipur, after over 2 dozen people were killed on the roads in 2 months, a committee was set up to prevent road accidents, but no major recommendations emerged except, you guessed it, "educate the people."
In my book, roads and road safety must come first.
Over 1,00,000 people die on India's roads every year – and the automobile revolution is already on us.
Funny how no political party is talking about this important issue.
As the "seat sharing" nonsense indicates, this is not genuine competition between political parties; this is "elite accommodation." They have an agreement among themselves to ignore certain issues. Roads and road safety is one of them.
Whom do we vote for?
Song of the Day: Michael Jackson – "All I Wanna Say Is That They Don't Really Care About Us." Hear a great remix here.
It's exactly like the US but a lot more chaotic. All elections are a farce when there are no genuine options.
ReplyDeleteIncidentally, do check out my latest post on the Bharatiya Oscar Awards - The Bhaskars - at http://www.rameshsrivats.net/2009/03/bharatiya-oscar-awards-bhaskars_18.html
I've given the best picture award to our parliament. Among other things, they thrust socialism on us and act as a free-market themselves :-)