Roads & We

What a display of civic sense do we notice on our roads in almost every city & town?

Be it a car, bike, bus or auto-rikshaw-nearly everyone is in a unruly hurry, unconcerned about fellow citizens and risking safety of everybody–wanting to just rush up or overtake somehow - from left, right, front, back or oblique. In the traffic- be the lights red or green-all too often- (lost in himself & unbothered), we see the pedestrians crossing the roads!

And also no worries if at night- headlights of most vehicles are in risky high beam on busy city roads-because everything goes!!

You occasionally even see a person (apparently literate!)- walking beside the divider (in middle of the road) unbothered by rushing traffic (head on or from rear) - a scene unimaginable in most parts of the world!

But let’s ask - is all this chaos necessary?

Where are we heading as a society?
Of course we are good people! But somehow has the virus of complacency, neglect, too much self-centeredness and corruption gone into most Indians? 

An equally populous & our neighboring nation can be the factory for the world! But why can’t we, despite enjoying democratic rights?