Einstein once asked his helping hand John to make two holes, one big and another small, for a mother cat and for her kitten, respectively.
One cat had delivered three kittens inside his house in a wooden box.
After returning from his office, Einstein found that there is only one opening in the box. Next day also he found the same when he lost his cool and abused John for disobeying his orders. John said, “Sir, why two holes the mother as well as her little ones can come out through one!”
Einstein could not sleep for two nights brooding “why this simple logic did not strike himIJ”Intelligent people do certain very funny and silly mistakes in life, so also certain scientific conclusions. Fifty years back a scientific study said “cholesterol” is the root cause of all cardiac problems. It spun billions of dollars for many, including doctors and medicine firms, but of late the opinion has taken a U turn!
The SC has done many excellent jobs through different verdicts, instead of appreciating them, we are depressed and behave as if the world has come to an end in India after compulsory Aadhaar card, the ban on fire crackers and other explosives. The Diwali festival is a primitive practice with firecrackers of hardly 50-100 decibels used mostly by children and it was a function of the business community of north India and Gujarat. We have too many noisy festivals and 7/24 music from different temples but when foreigners say ‘a noisy and dirty country called India’, we beat them up. Having hundreds of malls and a mobile in hand is neither a symbol of prosperity nor country’s development. We are in 21st century not in the 16th to follow these primitive practices.
We are inconsiderate about other religions, pregnant ladies, old people, sick people, animals, birds and pollution of air but organize functions after functions despite global warming and human rights issues. We talk big but do not follow certain civilian ethics. People are there to spread rumours and watch people dying— that is our attitude. We drive two wheelers on foot path, we blow horns continuously while driving on roads, we do not use safety belts, we think it’s beyond our dignity to follow traffic rules and wear helmets. Rastaroko and burning tyers on road has become a common sight in spite of SC directives. With education level going up through defective education system, our country instead of progressing is on the wrong path, even thousand of Narendra Modis will not be able to change the mindset of the public inside India.
Our youths are impatient and very argumentative and follow double standards. Wearing a torn Jean, a T shirt with two smart phones in hand is not the sign of a progressive country; it’s the nature of the people and patriotic feeling which makes a country great. The Supreme Court is trying its best but how to implement rules is a big question mark on the mind of good citizens of the country. Indian public is now reduced to watching IPl, discussing politics and watching vulgar Hindi films and say ‘let’s enjoy life’IJ If this is the meaning of life for perverted Indians, the future is as dark as a black hole.
(The writer is a doctor by profession and lives in Bhubaneswar)