Prithweesh Bhattacharjee

Seven Lucky Indian Citizens September 26, 2010

The Government of India does not usually care for the deaths of its citizens.

There are a lucky few who do get the attention due to them even though they might be dead by then.

Last week there were actually seven of them for whose deaths two government departments got in to a war of words and one of them even expressed anguish!

Seven elephants were killed on a railway track in West Bengal due to collision with a goods train.

The minister of environment Jairam Ramesh shed some Lacoste (of Crocodile fame..) tears from a plush hotel room and took up the matter with the Ministry of Railways.

Mamata Banerjee (Works on weekends as Minister of Railways) actually expressed anguish for deaths! At last!

I heard Jairam Ramesh talk about the collision detectors and Railways talk about caution (a new word in their dictionary) in train operations.

I hope similar feelings will start flowing for dead human beings, who call India their home, from their “elected” representatives.

I want to hear Mamata Banerjee, at least once during my lifetime, express anguish for the deaths of human beings caused by the Railways rather than smelling conspiracy everytime.

This needs to happen soon otherwise Save the Tiger program has to be replaced by Save the Indian Citizen (Homo Sapiens) program.