TAKE PLEDGE TO BE A HUMAN

Just to take a 1 minute lead in traffic, we all break all the traffic rules.An Indian only could have said, "Rules are meant to be broken".

A blueline bus crushes a 6 year old girl in a fully crowded street and forget the people on road, nobody even from inside the bus does anything against this. They quitely carry on to their journeys, to i dont know which place.

If indifference as a word has been lived in true sense in any society, then its none other than India. There only public figures like Kerala CM can bark such venom and directors like Ram Gopal Verma can be in a directorial moodjust after 2-3 days of Mumbai attacks.

Shame on us. Shame on Indians.What we are and Who we are?Forget this, is it even correct to call the bunch of over billion people living in India as Indians, as WE?

What has happened in Maharashtra and elsewhere under the guidance of able leaders like raj thackerey and many others, only makes this feeling stronger and deeper.
And then we want justice, we want answers, we want security, we want facilities and we want everything.But what we are giving back?

We as a nation have been degrading ever after the initial years of our Independence.

What comes to my memory first in this series of moral and national decay is the 1992 Ayodhya kaand.Events that lead to it and followed after it, damaged the Hindu-Muslim fibre of brotherhood and happily-living-togetherforever. The extent of damage has been from ignorable to unthinkable, in different minds and hearts across the nation.

Somehow, Punjab was escaped from unfathomable menace of terrorism.

Jammu & Kashmir still remains to be rescued to its heavenly status and for more than one reason, it seems to be a long andtough wait and the possible reason of terrorism and its different manifestations in this subcontinent, at least.

Later, Mumbai blasts tried to test the resilience of this great and mysterious city, further deepening the religion trench.

Then happened Godhra.Dont know much about the intricate details as truth is as complicate as life is. But, humanity was once again killed and murdered in front of our naked eyes.

This year worsened the things to such an extent that it has already become the worst year of my life, yet, with 24 more days to go. Terror struck at such unimaginable places during this year, that I really dont know a safe place in India with confirmity.Every dust bin in a public place opens up in my mind a trashfull of bomb-probing images.Regionalism in India was never so dominant, so ugly and so bare.

Is this the time for a serious revolution?A revolution propelled by positive forces and constructive participation.
Its been long, since we have been putting the onus on someone else for whatever bad happens in our lives.It is time for us to take the onus of everything that is happening arround us.
We, as Indian individuals need to learn a few tough lessons:

1. Discipline: in our behavior not just inside the class or office but everywhere, where it matters.

2. Participation: active involvement in the activities that affect us as individuals and as citizens of India and of the world.

3. Indifference towards indifference: we need to know that we all are prone to each and every thing thats happened to someone or is happening to someone. So, its time to "Take Care" of others around us as ourselves.

Today, the times are such that distance and regions, languages and nationalities cannot separate us from each other: be it the flow of ideas, crime, money, happiness, hatred, cooperation, competition, etc.
If we think good and our actions have the right intent, then we can be sure, that we are not alone here or there.People will join us and march with us and might even take lead to march further.

Lets take a pledge that we as individuals and our actions, would be guided by only one religion, only one nationality which is HUMANITY.
I am taking this pledege.
My nationality is HUMANITY.
My religion is HUMANITY.
My caste is HUMANITY.
My color is HUMANITY.
My creed is HUMANITY.

Make sure everyone you know takes this pledge and you would see that how the whole world can change.