Humanity
My name is Rajan and I am sixty years old. I am alone, as my wife passed away last year and my kids are settled in the foreign countries. I like to wake up in the early morning at 4:30AM and go for morning walk in the east side of Kailash area, Delhi.
While I am nearing Zamrudpur area, Delhi metro under Construction Bridge got collapsed in front of me. I am shocked after seeing the collapse of the bridge. I can’t believe it happened to the Delhi metro. It has got good name till now and everybody appreciates its services. I find people are crying for help and blood is flowing like flood. I called police and ambulance people. They reached to the spot after fifteen minutes and I went to the hospital along with the injured people.
I am shocked with the behavior of doctors. They are not at all worrying about the people who are fighting for their lives and dying. They are behaving as saints, as they see many people dead in front of their eyes and it is a routine thing to them.
I am shocked to see ‘Vaishali’ there. She is a nice woman and I know her for many years. Now she is lying idle infront of me and fighting for life with death. Vaishali had worked in my house as a maid before five years. Vaishai has to take care of two of his grand daughters. Her son-in-law left her daughter when she became mother of two kids. Her daughter had died before five years and Vaishali has to take care of them. Vaishali’s husband had expired long back. In the age of fifty five, she started working as a maid in four or five homes, which made her to earn six thousand rupees per month.
She uses that money for her grand daughters education. As both of them is studying tenth and ninth classes respectively. Even though they are not intelligent, they are studying decently. Vaishali always dreamt of making her daughters to settle in their life in a good manner.
Vaishali joined her grand daughters in a good school. Some times I given her some money for their school dresses and school fees. But I never remember Vaishali didn’t return my money. She is always honest and she never cheats people.
But today she is fighting for her life. I went near to her and she identified me and she started showing fingers to her grand kids and tried to tell something to me and she got died. I saw her grand kids ran to her body and started crying loudly. I became sad after seeing their faces. In that night, I taken them to my home and I made necessary arrangements for Vaishali’s death rituals.
Her grand kids became very dull afterwords and they don’t know what to do. They don’t know how they can study from now on wards. They don’t have single rupee. They are waiting for the five lakh rupees declared by the government as compensation, for those five people who died in that mishap.
Delhi Metro Rail Corporation MD offered to resign and CM doesn’t accept the resignation. In the enquiry they found that due to false design, bridge got collapsed. All NEWS channels are highlighting this news. They are showing continuously how bridge got collapsed and afterwords how cranes also collapsed while removing the bridge particles.
Government never paid five lakh rupees to Vaishali’s grand kids. We went to the government offices so many times and came to know that government people already eaten that money. I am disappointed with the government officer’s behavior.
I observed everybody is watching TV curiously. Everybody wants to know about the latest updates on this accident. All NEWS channels are predicting how it might have happened? They are showing the accident’s place in the Delhi map and showing the predictions with the help of graphics…
I felt so sad after seeing the apathy is showing by the people about the accident. Everybody is bothering so much about the fallen bridge and how Delhi Metro Rail Corporation is reacting and nobody is bothering about the people who are died in that accident. They are not bothering about how many people have to lead their life alone, after losing the elder ones. Everybody is interested in the latest news.
I have been thinking about these small kids. Can I join them in the orphanage home? Will Orphanage people take care of them like Vaishali?. I know nobody can replace Vaishali for them. I thought that why don’t I keep their kids in my home and help them in growing in their life. As I am always feeling lonely, kids might help me to give me new breath of life.
Next day I went to kids and I told they can stay with me life long. And I will take care of them. They felt very happy and started calling me as Grand father.
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