On the way to cannibalism - A passing thought

Right thing done at a wrong time in a wrong place can be a deadly and a worst mistake. A perfect example is a slow moving car in a fast moving lane. Let me draw your attention to the basics here. Think about others, realize and keep your actions on check all the time and I bet you cant go wrong. All it takes is to realize others are just like you. A bit of care, consideration and understanding can do magic in making every ones life much better. Interestingly, these issues seem to be existing in other developed countries also. How ever I'm sure the frequency of these would be negligible when we consider Indian driving sense and road etiquettes. Driving slow is good, but watch it when and where you are doing it, else it could just accelerate our journey towards cannibalism - Where a human will have no care and consideration left for a fellow human being.

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Driving with high beam lights is just one thing. Here is one more common behavior, which further goes to reiterate that we have no consideration for another human being. Check out this scene, in Bangalore during a weekday morning.

What do our literate, techno savvy, modern man do when there is a traffic congestion on his side of the road? He speeds his vehicle through the other lane trying to make his way through. Leave alone his consideration for others, it does not require Mtech in software engineering to foresee the chaos he would get into or cause, because of that action. Still we do it. All it takes is a second of thought to understand the situation and decide not to make things worse if not help solve. But such sensible thought would arise only if one has an iota of thought about his fellow human beings. Oh yes we can brag about being a breed of modern, sophisticated human being.

So what if we are on our way to cannibalism.

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The caption might sound gory and disturbing for many. It might even haunt you and evoke some revolt if I explicitly say that WE are on the way to cannibalism. Yes its just a matter of time before the entire mankind takes on to that. You find this difficult to believe?

Read on. The focus is about the extent we have lost respect and consideration for a fellow human being.


Take the paradoxical instance of light being the reason for blindness! Thanks to the “lost and not-found” road tax paid, we are all aware that Indian streets, let alone the rural, even the urban top notch roads don't have street lights. Would there be any other reason other than ignorance, nauseating pride, and disrespect for fellow beings for one to drive around with their high beam lights on? Is the well educated, techno savvy, enterprising Indian ignorant that one should drive with his low beam lights unless he is on a deserted stretch? Do we need to run some campaign to get them aware on the danger involved in driving with lights on high beam? Being aware of the unpredictability of Indian roads, rash driving and jaywalking, it can cost many lives if the headlight of an oncoming vehicle blinds you completely. An alarmingly large chunk of accidents that happen in the nights are due to glaring high beams. To make it worse we have ruthless owners who use extra bright or halogen white bulbs as an attention seeking technique. Why should they bother if their attention seeking techniques would cost some ones life? Please express your thoughts and suggestions towards why people take this lightly. Is there any thing we could do to ensure we all drive with our low beam lights on? Is getting the traffic cops to fine them the only way, or is there a long run solution which will get our citizens to think about and respect a fellow human being? We could either evoke the feeling of brotherhood and respect for our fellow human beings or just shrug our shoulders and say

“Why bother”.We need not bother and there will be a day when incidents like what happend in Nithari would be just common.