Incident

Yesterday I was commuting along with my colleague through the Deccan and we were talking only very soon to our realization we are met with something unordinary. A traffic police officer was dragging a "young" man by his collar. He was being dragged when we saw that his body language wanted to discuss instead. We stopped and Prasad soon took out his camera to shoot. Someone told the police that he is being recorded and we saw him softening down, later we had to run the accelerator to get past and then we were discussing how much power do social media possess.

First of all, it is an unwelcome attitude in the officer’s part to have resorted to violence with a young person (although I am not proclaiming to have it on others) looking the long-term effect in his attitude towards his future. S/he may become indifferent and unconsciously develop hidden hostilities towards the state and the law. It must be the duty of not only a police officer but for every individual to consider non-portrayal of violent attitude their first and foremost duty towards nation and for the nation building. One has no power to disrespect someone without proper trial and that too in public; else we will have to stop talking that we need a friendlier police attitude. Maybe public will come to know of the hidden ecstasy only by being treated with humility that the world as a whole need. A post in The Artidote says, "“I didn’t realize how badly I was treated until someone started treating me with respect". We need to see the totality of nonviolence attitude. One can not ignore the implications we have to try nonviolence over violence. 

Why do we have to feel fearful even with the state administrative tool and why not be more comfortable and positive with a suitable process which is coupled with emotional intelligence, simple logic to solve a problem and remain productive in a common environment. Instead of intimidation, we need more of the education, more with the morals at the moment. But then one realizes that the situation of the country is as such that top 10% are holding up to the 56% of the income and which is a devastating figure for us to introspect that the real problem is something else. One cannot have a common system for all the class and categories of people but then how much technologically and socially advanced are we to even understand those points. The chaos has to come because of the vacuum created by the income gap. In a socialist economy, everyone flourishes. Please don’t think that we could not decriminalize the whole country because we have close examples of countries like Iceland and other Scandinavian countries. We need skilled people at the management level. We need leaders who are above the political prejudice instead he should see and communicate hope in people. And above, all we need is citizen who can think, discuss and stand for others.

All kinds of security measures can be taken to illegalize, restrict, regulate or monitor something based on the basket of limited information we possess, hence draconian laws has to be avoided otherwise there won’t be room for discussions let alone amendments. Lack of independence brings monotonicity and later frustration because even though we don’t have wings, we are meant to fly regardless.