LIFE GOES ON AS IF NOTHING HAS HAPPENED...

We wake up only for a while and then go on to the SLEEP MODE

26/11 happened, one day candles burned and then all is forgotten...

Life continues as if nothing has happened...

Ask the people who lost someone dear

Life has changed for them completely though!

Crores and crores are being looted in front of the whole nation...

We talk and discuss for a day shouting aloud

Life goes on as if nothing has happened...

Ask those who are living in hunger and poverty

How do they manage to survive just another day!

Hundreds of poor are dying daily in the nation,

We say oh...so sad as if we are really concerned

The next day, life goes on as if nothing has happened...

Ask those how they are struggling day in and day out

To feed their small-small children by staying hungry!

Only when the rich are affected, everyone wakes up

Discussion will go in length and genuine concern reflected

Government will come in action almost immediately...

Ministers will be sacked and action is immediate

The media will shout aloud on and on....

Remember how Rahul Gandhi visited Mumbai...

CM Ashok Chavan turned Mumbai into a fortress

Just to release SRK’s MY NAME IS KHAN?

While in Tembhali village, a remote village in Maharastra

Tribal villagers are surviving hunger eating tamarind leaves

Oh, we discussed at great length about SRK’s film

On and on... for days, months and even now...

Ask any Indian about Tembhali (one such village),

Getting electricity after 63 years of freedom...

Many will say they haven’t even heard about the village

Yes, few may say they have heard because,

The first UID was given to poor tribal villagers by PM

But are we surprised that villages haven’t seen electricity

In the last six and half decades of Independence

UID or electricity and drinking water are more important for living?

Many haven’t even heard about Bundelkhand

Where farmers had to sell their wives to feed their children

Many will never even want to know too

Those who know are silent because it is too inhuman to talk

Ask those farmers who had no option to be pushed to such an extent...

There are many such realities of our nation

To which we all have shut our eyes and conscience

Poor farmers are dying cultivating food for the nation

While the nation purposely allow food grains to rot in open

Ask those who haven’t seen what is wheat or proper food in ages

Life goes on as if nothing has happened...

Everyone will quote the cliché and then forget

Till the next calamity befall on us to teach us a lesson

With so much suffering in the world all around

The point is, DO WE REALLY CARE GENUINELY?

Johnny D

24^th February 2011