State Of Denial

After the long and highly publicized attacks on celebrations on Valentines Day, the Bhopali has simply moved on. The young ones have shifted strategies on the Valentines Day to going for movies or limiting the interactions to cell phones. The Bajrang Dal had to resort to doing mock practices of their declared intentions on their own cadre! The Bajrang Dal would simply not accept their ideas are redundent in todays India. The best part of the report above is the last sentence “If they were married for four months, why did they meet in a park, under a tree on Valentine's Day?”. Why indeed would a married hindu couple meet at park while they have urgent things to accomplish? Not in the distant future somebody from the Hindu organizations would surely call for a complete ban on cell phones as they are promoting cultures not in accordance of India.
Recently the education minister of Madhya Pradesh, Laxman Singh Gaur, died in a road accident while traveling in his SUV from Indore to Bhopal. The road conditions for most part of this 185 KM stretch is not very encouraging with pretty high number of vehicles on the road at any time of the day. Most of the road is single lane track with very few places having a double lane track. The few stretches where the double lane has been laid, any traveler can feel the increased level of security. The project of double lining the entire stretch has been inherited from government to government with little progress being made on the ground. After the death of an active and working minister of state, one would have expected the road project to be taken up more seriously. However, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan has instructed his ministers to dump their swanky sedans in favour of the old matron Ambassador, as the car moves slowly and is more adapt to the dusty roads of India since 1957.