Taunt the titans, and they shall surely and eventually strike back, amid-a-force. That is now happening, with a vehemence that is scary and advancing rapidly. Smog of a vicious variety surrounds us and is quite overwhelmingly visible, but we recuse ourselves nonetheless. On a recent drive back to Delhi from Amritsar, I witnessed the mayhem of pollution in its real propensity. At 10 and 11 am, the missus and I rejoiced for a mite over the onset of fog, till we realized that it was just environmental smut (smog) in its most devilish avataar. And all along the highway, farmlands were ablaze, spewing untold ashes and particulates into the skies, fanned by north-westerly winds, on to Haryana and Delhi-NCR.
If we go back just a few weeks, despite the hammering verdict of the Supreme Court, Delhi had firecrackers screeching and booming our very innards (I am yet to see a report on how many were arrested or brought to book for their vagrancies).
Clearly, we are a true and pliable democracy, one that absolves even law-breakers when they demerit set practices and norms, more so in the name of religious, mental fervour and obstinate discrepancy. We shan't learn, it seems, even though our skies and lungs bespeak a whimsical tale, a pathetic and lessthan-altruistic illustration of the aberration that we have begotten upon ourselves.
How do I manifest this? Well, give me a paragraph or more and I shall show you what we were supposed to be, and what we have turned
out to be instead. The numbers shall talk and I find myself and my words a-numbed and a-humbled, much at the feet of symbolic and inundating victories through ache-able and destitute histrionics.
What a drive...
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