On The Present Times..
My heart goes out to the people who have got displaced or have suffered loss of life and/or property, in the recent season-change.. I have always been at the receiving end of much flak over my sensitivity and too much empathy, but how one is not supposed to be worried owing to the suffering of fellow-citizens, is my question.. I cringed at the first-ever glance at रैन-बसेरा, in Delhi, and I feel equally for the victims of Hit-And-Run accident involving a high-profile star in Mumbai.. I do not wish to imagine their plight, for that makes me cynical of the system and its (lack of) effectiveness.. As a former scribe, I have tried to put all my fellow-citizens, those who are law-abiding and in their right mind, on a level-footing, when I would write about them.. But, I am sorry to say, things are going from bad to worse.. And even though I don't do a field-job, or edit reporters' copies any longer, I still get perturbed as you just cannot escape aftermath of certain occupational-ha