Saturday, October 21, 2006

Thankyou Moonlight and a very happy Diwali to you too. I suspect you are young and pray that sanity prevails in the world so that you are able to enjoy many more such Diwalis. Two items of news in national newspapers. A judge takes his wife to a govt. hospital where he damands instant attention from the consultant who is too busy to see her instantly. So he summons him to his chambers and makes him sign an apology on Rs. 10 stamp paper under threat of contempt of court. Why is a judge's wife or indeed a judge more important than any other human being? If a doctor is resuscitating someone should he let that person die to attend the judge's wife? In India a rich man's family can survive his death because they have enough money but a labourer may have a wife, two children and elderly parents dependant on him and his death will reduce them to destitution. Unfortunately a govt hospital is most likely to have such patients and should the doctor have left him to attend to the judge's wife? The second item- Three men were crossing train tracks in the same city and were killed by an oncoming train. No fault of the train driver who could not possibly see these people and stop in time but passengers beat up rail staff and ransacked offices. Unconnected events but shows that people have so much contempt and hatred for the establishment because of the behaviour such as that of the judge.

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