NO city in India can stand 2 hrs of rainfall. "Civic Life" kneels down, and "civilians" are on all 4. While we negotiate our bikes/cars though the anarchy, through deepened trails (flanked by cakes of mud), pothole-lakes and gravel-hills, and while we issue noise-threats to all and sundry to give us our way, all we think of is "to get out of this mess". How often does it occur to us that we are part of the problem? How many of us feel that we are just too many? Because of over-supply, the value of life has fallen down to nothingless. We are not people, we are just market. We the Consumers have Harley-Davidson machines but alas! no roads to ride them. Individually, we order Aquafina in polished restaurants but collectively, we have no sense of sanitation! We live in a market, not society. How can we call ourselves civilized when we don't have a sewage system?
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Monsoon Mess
NO city in India can stand 2 hrs of rainfall. "Civic Life" kneels down, and "civilians" are on all 4. While we negotiate our bikes/cars though the anarchy, through deepened trails (flanked by cakes of mud), pothole-lakes and gravel-hills, and while we issue noise-threats to all and sundry to give us our way, all we think of is "to get out of this mess". How often does it occur to us that we are part of the problem? How many of us feel that we are just too many? Because of over-supply, the value of life has fallen down to nothingless. We are not people, we are just market. We the Consumers have Harley-Davidson machines but alas! no roads to ride them. Individually, we order Aquafina in polished restaurants but collectively, we have no sense of sanitation! We live in a market, not society. How can we call ourselves civilized when we don't have a sewage system?
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