cant help but blog on pune...

its true, i cant help but blog on pune...i hate the place...hate the ppl...hate the general attitude towards life here...

but still few things i felt like sharing are out here...

1. our house cleaning lady - she said her son has failed in school, her daughter studies...but she doesnt know how to make her son study...now he failed a year...he is not dumb, nor uninitiative..he is suffering becoz of bullies and his solution to that is skippin a year.

2. the rickshawala - i hate rickshawala...but this one guy made a difference...he spoke to me in english..i was shocked but was too egoistic to admit it so i told myself he was a show off...turns out i was wrong...this man was retired...he spoke in fluent english coz he had a B.A. in English literature, he had a diploma in engineering coz he liked it...and later on workd in many famous foundries and industries...he taught himself all abt physics and math before learning engineering...

i was awestruck...i was still too adamant to accept i found someone out of ayn rand's book...further..he owned this rickshaw and gave it to some guy to rent...and after he retired he help that man buy a rickshaw on his own...so to get back the auto while not harming the other man...

3. the 'bhangarwala' - its a term used for ppl who collect trash like tins, glass bottle, etc by going from street to street basis and selling it off to get money...oh yeh and they collect it on 'hatgadi' which is a big cart on wheels very heavy to push...

so this man was old, when i say old i dont mean just old i mean a person who has worked all his life to get very little for himself, he looked tired, he was probably starved...he wore a red cap, his clothes were ragged...its was around 2 in the afternoon...damn hot and my mother and i were sweating and dehydrated...you can imagine the scene...this man cud barely push the cart he was so...god...i cursed myself for not asking him whether he ate anything or not...thats the least i cud have done...

i went and sat in a restaurent but cudnt bring myself to order anything...i was full of guilt..and i am still feeling guilty...i went out i looked for him...but cudnt find him...he must have disappeared into some lane..i looked for him and walked almost a km...but not use...

then it striked me...all of us talk abt one day doing some good in the world...but wat abt today? what have we done today? the least we can do is ask these ppl who try and survive without begging if they ate today...i still remember that man..and i wish peace on his soul and his life..

signing off with emotions
shruti