Amol Bol 1

June 21, 2010

On the busy street on a weekday morning, everyone was trying to push their wheels to make an inch for themselves. The early shower was making the life even hell. As we all were crawling in the middle lane to reach our destinations, suddenly the left indicator of the car ahead started blinking. Thanking god for creating a space for me, I tried to shove in the empty space created by the car moving to its left. But it was my turn to be surprised and brake my car. There she was. The reason of that slow moving traffic.

A small puppy, shivering with cold and fear, was trying to make its way out of that horrendous traffic. Poor puppy must be of 10-12 days old. She was trying to stand firmly on her tender feet on the muddy surface. Vehicles behind me already started shouting out with different sounds of horns. Surprisingly each driver was trying to save her life by avoiding the circular space of 5” diameter around her. That small angel was the cause of that whole mess in the rush hour. But no one was even complaining.

Then, 2 cute looking young girls got down from their car, who could never put their highly priced heals in the mud, and took that even muddier small puppy in their hands. They took her on the side of the road. Took some hot milk from the chaiwala on the street and gave it to the puppy. She happily drank all of it.

The traffic had no time to see the after scenes. It started moving a bit faster. Me too made my way. But what a sight it was! The whole traffic was stopped by a small puppy and each one was trying to drive cautiously to avoid any mishap with her.

(Excerpt from a news from Daily Sakal)

On a newly constructed concrete road in a suburb of Pune, some unknown vehicle rammed over an unknown pedestrian sometime in the midnight. The victim couldn’t survive and died on the spot due to brain hemorrhage. Not a single vehicle stopped to help him. The worst part was yet to happen. No one put his stranded dead body aside. More and more vehicles drove over the dead man till a patrolling van could find it.

Were the drivers in both the cases come from the same species… human?