It was a very hot day of the month of May, I had taken a coke, and a bottle of mineral water to keep me cool. Put together it costed me 35 Rs., not bad, so hot, I have seldom felt this heat in Delhi. I had taken a Blue line bus to Dilshad Garden, almost 18 kms from ITO. It costed 15 Rs. But the journey was horrible. Heat wave from the side windows with glass panes missing. Crowd inside. I was lucky to get a seat. I decided no more Blue line ( I had made this resolution a few times before also.). Alighting at Seemapuri, I called a Rikshaw. Checked his charge for Shalimar Garden (2 kilo meters). Alas ! Cheater wants 20 Rs for that much distance. Cheater, I could barely resist my anger to this opportunist, leach… and whatever came to mind and boarded. He pedelled the distance, sweating, wiping his forehead, again peddling finally reaching my destination. I paid him and walked off. Hardly will I remember this guy who brought me home at a cost of course, at 2 p.m noon on a day considered to be one of the hottest of the season.
Reaching home, I recalled, if the rikshaw was not available at the place, I would be walking the two kms, might have consumed another bottle of cola, yet got exhausted, might also have the heat wave on me and jolly well could have fallen ill for a few days. I have paid Rs 20/- to the service that man – most probably from Bihar – whose face I would hardly recollect. Why only rikshaw even that Blue line was doing a service. That time of the day, DTC do not operate for reasons ranging from lunch break to change of duties. Even if there is one, it will skip you and speed away.

Believer's agony

So many Godmen make news for wrong reasons these days (thanks to Media) women abuse, child abuse, and in many other abusive activities. Such questionable characters amass wealth and fame. All these men and many before with such profile are leading luxurious life with followers flowing in from all over the globe. The saddest part is that the very promoters of these characters of darkness are the so called elite, educated and well informed people.

There is a sect of believers who engage their energy and time in sending chain mails to people with scary tales of calamities. These fanatics take up the case of some concrete structure survived in a devastating calamity and say “the Cross survives the Haiiti devastation”; “the statue at Velankanni has stood intact amongst the debris of tsunami” etc. and warn the reader that only the cross & statue survives, while the people die. So be a believer and send the mail to twelve believers. The irony is, the one who shed blood and gave his body to save the world, was busy in safeguarding his properties when his children were dying and getting perished all around.
I think these followers of Godmen and self promoters of God need to be told the fact that no Godman can guarantee immortality . No God will be glorified if He looks after his own concrete structure of cross and statue and let his folks die and their homes get shattered