Vision of Life; by Sanjay: "Shradhha aur Saburii" & Immunity !!

“When life gets tough, average men kneel down & surrenders but a few gets tougher than the life & sail through”...

This has been said by nobody but me, thanks to lockdown philosophy! Well, indirectly nearly fifteen days are complete of things getting stand still & directly one week of total lockdown of entire country! Best part is people are cooperating (what else they can do) & worst part is we are most useless lot using all our creativity to crack silly (not funny) jokes & share confusion & spread negativity when we have time at hand! In short we are not at all used to sit idle & do something creative & with due respect I am referring to majority of public as there are a few who are trying to use this lockdown time for creating something productive which will help others to fight with depression creeping in by doing nothing for hours!

For e.g. there are few who are designing on-line workout programs, some are planning on-line art work making sessions, some women (even men too) are taking on line cooking classes, WHO has on line tips for being at peace, even there are now on-line music conserts & news papers too & list is increasing. But on other side most people are busy is sharing repeat forwards & 99 out of 100 such people themselves have not read or seen what they are forwarding, just by sharing such forwards they are trying to achieve two things, one is spending their free time & second is trying to mark their presence on whstap groups!

And then there are who are active in arranging support in any form for the very few who still are physically mobile & fighting the war actually on street , from their offices i.e. most are govt personnels including few social organizations!

Yesturday it rained & a whtsap prank came to me saying,"If you are confused what date & day is today then with the rains you will now think which season is this!" Creative indeed but I wish if we can use our creativity on better fronts also as nothing is more waste than wasting creativity for wrong purposes. I don’t say humour is bad & don’t crack jokes but its just one part of life or else life itself becomes a joke, if overdose is done of jokes!

Coming down to implementation of lockdown, slowly the feeling is sinking in the minds & though with all disasters in the past right from bomb blasts, terror attacks, earth quakes, floods, swine flew out break we have not learnt anything, hope at least this time we won’t forget lesson of facing disaster! There has been epidemic terror in very recent past ie swine flew & dengue types but I dont remember any of us learning any lesson from it except buying masks & sanitizers to such extent that the only business in this country is manufacturing of these two items! Neithe civic bodies (read as govt) has any arrangement of qurentine places at hand nor people knew how to face in such epidemic, as ususal! As this is what we are witnessing from the efforts law enforcement authorities taking to make people remain in homes & understand their responsibility towards the disaster! Agreed one should not live under constant fear but one should be careful at least that much is expected from learned grownups! And for that the system i.e. govt is equally responsible as where were disaster management mock drills towards epidemics, any ways just joking as in a country where mock drills are not carried out even for fire or bomb blast, why I am expecting epidemic mock drills! Oh, yes the mock-drills are carried sometimes by the police & it’s about some imaginary terrorists holding hostages in some popular mall (yes popular malls is a must or else how we will get publicity) & then the commandos rescues the imagainery hostages, next day all media prints snaps of police constables without any protection entering in mall on rescue mission (just the way police are on roads today) & show is over. I even remember seeing a snap of police constable handling a so called bomb in one such mock drill news without even basic life jacket type protection, anyways; he knew its mock drill! If this is scene with concerned govt depts' then no wonder in this Smart City in half of the multi- storied buildings fire systems are down & never repaired & not even 10% completed building’s residents has ever spent for safety audit of the building ever, thats why when I am a true fool to expect from govt mock drills & be ready for the disaster like virus attack; after all govt is "of the people, by the people & for the people", perfectly in tune with each other in disaster management, aren’t we??

If you think I am sarcastic or negative, here is a test; call/whatsap your any ten friends (this test includes your own self also) & ask him/her the contact numbers as well address & details of local Disaster Management Cell (if he or she knows what it means) & if even two people give right answer I will delete this sharing from my blog! My daring to challenge you, itself is a proof of our ignorant attitude as a society about not just this but any disaster & disaster doesn’t comes with a warning call! Well, most disaster do, but we are too busy on forwarding silly whatsap messages to ignore those warnings, that’s another story!

Lastly, with all such background when it’s an epidemic disaster, all it comes to individual immunity of human body & on this from we are way ahead of any county in the world! Thanks to very basic things like nearly 90% population of this country doesn’t has access to potable water by WHO standards & yet we live on. When I have gone to my first trip to Europe some two decades back, I casually asked a friend there about carrying drinking water along while leaving from hotel as I knew buying a water bottle is costly thing. On that, my friend proudly has said, no need to carry water, in Europe you can just open up any tap & drink from it, that will be safe to drink water! Well, here in our country its exactly reverse, you can open up any tap or container & the water will be equally unsafe to drink & yet we drink it & our life moves on, making us able to digest anything, keeping us immune to most of virus or bacterial attacks! This is scene in Pune the Smart City if you go to villages or even towns then you will faint looking at the sources of water people drink from is naked truth, search Google for live (and real life) images of water scene in India! And I am not joking as when it comes to immunity it’s not water, millions of people doesn’t get any basic sanitation, our public hospitals stinks (most of them) & our workers who cleans our drainage lines doesn’t have access to any safety measures when they get down in the sewers to clean the mess we only make & die due to toxic gasses! And why drainage cleaning crew, even our doctor’s are used to perform major operations in a ventilation-less rooms without light or proper operating safe equipments at hand. Our labors die in mines as there are no life saving measures or training given to them & list or reasons by which death comes to you in this country is endless! On top of all this, thousands of pregnant women get delivered with suffering labor pains in train bogies, on bus stands, on roads, in fields & with bare minimum rest starts working with baby at chest; yet life doesn’t stops & moves on here in this country! And the new born survives again drinking unsafe water & eating no healthy food, this is life cycle here which makes us immune to almost everything around!

But let’s put our past back & write something new at least from this lesson as every time we can’t be saved by some miracle but we need to adopt some good habits along with our inbuilt immunity, at least start individually a bit more civic when its personal as well public hygiene & raise our voices wherever we can on the issues of public health than just petrol & gas prices hike or reservations!

Sometimes I wonder about immunity of our countrymen, its more mental than physic, as how can somebody survive in so adverse situations where every day is a suffering (for most of them), but I think there only lies the hope for winning the present battle! No wonder the most sacred words in this country are “Shradhha aur Saburi” i.e. Faith & Patience, & it makes us top on immunity scale, Jai Ho!

Sanjay Deshpande

Sanjeevani Dev.

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