I was totally unaware of the 'NEWS' which is coming to me in some ten minutes ....
I was playing cricket in my apartment ground with some of my friends .Mr.Apartment Secretary warned us for the bruises in his car, but we argued that it wasnt of the ball .These kind of related arguments arent new for us and this isnt about which i am about to scribe here...but a far more important thing...
[We'll always have a bunch of small children (but not that very small) who share our regime in the ground.They have their own games, and also play the role of spectators to our game if it goes any interesting.One such child is 'lakshan '.]
---->My friend who joined some time later, told us almost unvoiced,in atmost grief , "'lakshan's father died of an accident today morning" .He added answering to one of our immmediate question, "he was on his way from madurai to some place in trichy". i could hear "i havent seen that uncle even once:so sad:that corolla uncle da:so sad:this should not have happened ".None of us know much about him or about his family .I said that we should stop playing but a guy replied "what will happen if we stop playing".hmmm,right But the news rung so hard in my mind.We managed to play .........
I dont complain my apartment guys in any way or curse anybody who in this world might have been the reason for this unhappy ,disconsolate 'incident', or 'accident'. What ever i call , it is of no use to the 4 year old 'lakshan'...
But it strikes me so hard , the fact that: lot of things which are mere 'news' for us are dearly catastrophic to its very victims in some way or the other. The colleges were in full shutter for this whole week, but only few of us few of a times gave a thought that it is because of a problem in Srilanka ,where thousands of people doubt their very survival for the seconds to come. Neither did we when we learned the fact that 'Hamas is the militant group of palestine' in some newspaper. How many of us would chat about Satyam fraud with a good hot cup of coffee in our hand in the morning or merely talk about it ,if we had some 100000 satyam shares.if we had some then the fraud is no more a news......
Even if I mourn in the depth of my heart, nothing is gonna be fine for srilankans or palestinians or 'lakshan'. The existence of almighty can even be questioned now, but it has been done a lotta times in the past and people always come up with convincing answers as godly as possible.However life has to move on in some way or the other
"but if i read some news tomorrow somewhere i will stop myself for a second that this news is costing somebody ,somewhere in a way they never wanted to ..... "
