My Two Cents

Twenty two people died at Elphistone Road Station today. That count includes a child. If we are being completely truthful, they were killed. Killed by unwitting killers. Every article, tweet or report I have seen puts the blame on the government. The cause of the tragedy by all consensus is infrastructure. The truth that no one really wants to talk about is that the tragedy had as much to do with the callous attitude of the commuters as it had to do with infrastructure. The killers could have just as easily been killed. Yes, the infrastructure is crippling under the sheer weight of the population. However it is not the only reason for the tragedy. The other reason is the sheer insensitivy shown by a large section of commuters to fellow humans. To understand, why this came to pass, we need to go back in time. On 15th August 1947 when we got independence from the British, we had the whole country to ourselves. To start with we had too many people to feed and too little food on the pla...