Heatstrokes of Summers

June 2008 - Summer Internship @ Honda Motorcycles and Scooter India Private Limited

Once, in the gestation period of my questionnaire, I accompanied Pranjali in plant for survey. While getting the questionnaire filled up with one of the staffs, when he got to know, we have come from Ghaziabad, he asked,
“ aap Ghaziabad ke MLA ko janti hain?”
“No”
“D. P. Yadav hain”
“achchha”
“unke bête hain na, Vikas Yadav aur Vishal yadav, arre wahi jo us case mein the(here his voice was rather in whispering tone), who hamare cousin hain (voice raised with immense pride)”

I, somehow, found the name Vikas Yadav rather familiar. Later on, Pranjali told me, he was talking about the same person, who allegedly murdered ‘Nitish Katara’ for sullying Yadav’s family ‘reputation’ by having an affair with his sister Bharti Yadav. Oh! And he was talking so proudly that he is their cousin, just after when he was talking about ‘workers uplift’ ‘Justice to the staffs’ and ‘consideration for the underprivileged by affluent management, of which we are going to be part of. Pranjali told me, he is the member of ‘Labour Union’ here. Heat of power is the biggest catalyst for anything in the world, be it power of wealth, brain or, muscles. Everyone, at his or her level tries to get even with injustice done to him, by afflicting injustice to some one else and justifying it. Be it any class, lower, middle or upper. In lower class, the husband transfers the injustice done to him by his master to his wife, wife to her child, child to the dog at the roadside and dog by biting him or anyone else and so on... This is the cycle of negative energy. “Energy cannot be created or destroyed; it is just transformed from one form to another”. And there are very less people, who transform this negative energy into positive, and perhaps, it is easier said than done. The worker, we met, perhaps didn’t took notice of the thing that we are from IMT, or he didn’t know that Nitish Katara was a student of IMT, Ghaziabad, and this is the place, where he met Bharti Yadav. Otherwise, we would have heard more about ‘his eminent connections’ and their historic records of murders, attempt to murder, extortion, rapes etc.

After few days only, Vikas Yadav was finally found guilty in the case and was given life imprisonment. Pranjali said jokingly, ‘Let’s go to that worker and congratulate him’. I wonder how much satisfaction and sense of victory, Nitish Katara’s mother must be feeling after the decision after the fight for the justice for her dead son for six years against all the odds… political pressure, muscle power and witnesses turning hostile. But, definitely, the goons won’t let justice prevail. Later, on Bharti Yadav’s statement came, “My brothers are innocent”. Such is the complexity of love among the martyred scrupulous lover, deflating commitments with time, family obligations, muscle power and self love. Love is perhaps the name given to the link between need and its fulfillment. With time, need changes and so the source of fulfillment!

Life

Life is not always fair,in fact, not at all fair. Be habituated to it, you won’t get hurt so easily and so ‘frequently’. You may give all your heart , soul and all to a particular work and particular person, and at the end of the day, you may feel; you have got nothing, may be only negative vibrations; suddenly you will feel deceived by that person, your destiny and series of the events that led to it.It is so normal and it happens to everyone without exception, may be not equally. Some people are, somewhat, more privileged.

But, however,life is best teacher,one can have,may be very pedagogic and cruel,severe and harsh,but then also,it is very practical. Ironically, it teaches you lessons and makes you grow up, only for the purpose to get more accustomed to its eccentricities, so that we can handle its unusual quirks and idiosyncrasies more diligently, more patiently and with greater maturity without getting too much affected by it.

It teaches you lesson at every step. There are nothing called good or bad experiences,they are life’s pedagogic and capricious ways to teach you lesson in the form of beautiful dreams coming true and getting shattered at every turn, making you smile and frown, laugh and cry bitterly. So learn from it, analyse it patiently, know your mistakes, find ways to face and handle it in better manner and move on…

Whatever happens to your life,it never stops,it goes on without giving you a single bare moment to handle it,giving you shocks and shivers at very next moment. But whatever be,every setback and heartbreak will make you more matured, discriminating and an astute judge of character, more shrewd to handle such situations, in short, a better person. And I am hoping too to get refined and concrete at every step of life.

Don’t think of yourself as wretched fellow who got every bad pie in her share, in fact ,you are the lucky one,to whom life gave an opportunity to improve and refine. A person who gets all the delicacies without struggling much for it and going through any hardship and ups and downs, can never know their real worth and remains a shallow and naive person not having enough strength and thirst to enjoy and harness the best out of it.

If the things are not going your way,neither your life nor the person , you are giving your true and pure heart and all, is not reciprocating your efforts in the same way, may be this is the case that those things and those people are not made for you to be beside you or with you. Destiny is a strong word, and noone can deny that. We can’t have full control over our life because somehow, rein is not in our hands completely. There are umpteen forces working and governing the events around us than just our will power, strength, capabilities and efforts. Compared to all these forces, our efforts are not even half as strong. These forces can change the turn , velocity and inclination of the events in any direction that also constantly and frequently depending upon their comparative and relative strength. (2006)