Does God's work make you suffer

One of the best edifice in Bangalore city is the Vidhan Soudha. This houses the legislature of the state of Karnataka in India. The beautifully crafted building stands out and would attract anyone passing by to say the least. Atop the structure there is a sentence  etched out on stone, coloured with Gold and it reads thus Government Work is God's work

This sentence would actually give each of the citizens a re-assurance that people sitting inside this building who are otherwise called Govt servants would be doing work that literally HAS to be the best for the well being of all under their governance. You would find that Govt servants do only things that they think are the best but the difference is they do only things that are best to line their pockets and instead not the best for the areas under their governance.

God would never do something that is not the best for his people. He cares, considers and plans well and ahead for his people... however Governments ruling this state of Karnataka has always governed with nothings. The latest set of people in power have taken charge close to 6 months now and nothing much is yet to be seen. Bangalore City accounts for the largest tax paying people in this state, however walk around on the roads of this city you will know that they are not roads instead mud paths covered with some asphalt to make it look black ! Its supposed to be the Silicon city of India, well not so. Vehicles that roam this city hardly have space to even trudge along since the roads are all clogged with either no space or open pits dug up to lay some cable ages back, craters that stare at you from the earth's belly. The rulers haven't a thought in their mind to still allow more and more vehicles to be sold in this city. Auto rickshaws.. well they are a rule to themselves, who can park anywhere, drive anyhow, fill any liquid into their tanks to make the 3 wheeler run and then smoke the hell out of the people.

To make some change apparently Municipal Corporations were merged into the City Corporation, this exercise ran into couple of years and finally emerged ' Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike ' which means Greater Bangalore City Corporation !. The hitherto Municipal corporations at least ensured that Drainage's were maintained, streetlights were replaced on time, roads got some repairs... now that we have a greater corporation the unified entity has only added to the woes of people, no maintenance is at all happening, not at least in Mahadevpura Zone.

No point in showcasing these anomalies... but makes me wonder and ask Does God's work ever make you suffer !!

Traffic signals

Traffic signals are intended to do some controlling of traffic. It obviously is a replacement of the men who patrolled junctions controlling traffic, so that so automated sense did the control and prevent snarls.

Come to the Outer Ring Road in Bangalore connecting Old Madras Road to Hebbal Main and you would find signal towers that are designed to make matters easy... however the technical brains that made it or the brains that control it haven't used the capability... so these signal lights cause more confusion and make people go paranoid. They stay at Red for long time, even though there is no a single vehicle that is going to pass under it. Can you overstep him NO and how long would you wait !! well you have to. These signals also aren't programmed to suit time of the day or cater to the peak and no peak hours.

The police fraternity in Bangalore should use some thinking also to make people feel comfortable to follow traffic laws, instead of just making laws and not having any reasonable allowance to follow.

We 'the' people..

Our people are a great asset to the nation... so says all

During the last week or so, our people have been so emotionally outraged with the terror activities that all went out in candle marches and other protest march etc... vigil and vigil. The main slogan all had to shout out was ' Enough is Enough ' and bashing up the political class. The people feel that politicians have done all things wrong for the people to be in such a state

I would like to think that Polity is again made of men or women who prior to becoming the neta was a commoner. This man roamed around us and then he chose to get ambitious... we the people elected him to hold some position in his party first, then the roles in government. Well he used this selection to think that its his right by birth. Yes, its a sad thing, but we after all made him that Rogue that we now hate of him.

Lets reflect on our actions... that make these people the fall guys. Don't we let them prey on our sentiments, aren't we allowing them to divide us, aren't we the ones who pay them the extra buck around the table to do something 'special' for us, don't we call these hallowed humans to do those things which he is not supposed to ?

Think about it people... we made him / her this way and now we are wasting candles and reams of paper & air time trying to make a politician understand that he did a WRONG... when we actually forced him into it by bribing him to misuse his office.

Ask ourselves... or rather I would like to ask those who did these marches... ' Do you follow the basic traffic signal ? ' How many amongst us do follow rules setout by the law. When we cant we misuse or find ways to bend them and now that the lamb has transformed into an Elephant, we have had Enough of it !!!

So enough is enough... yes, its enough on all counts