Caught without the DL

As I was reading Times of India today, I came across this article where a 19 years old boy was stopped by police when he was driving his brother's motorbike to his college to pay his fees. On finding out that the boy did not have Driving License, the policemen took away Rs. 5000 meant for his fees and dragged him to police station. The boy could not bear the humiliation and drank pesticide in front of the police station. The policemen then took him to hospital where he is battling for life. The policemen, later, were saying that they only sent him a notice and deny taking the money.

I felt really sorry for the boy after reading this article and was thinking if he really deserved this. Was it completely his fault for driving the vehicle without having a DL (though he was above 18) or could the policemen have been more lenient to him? What do you think? Who is responsible for this situation?
1. The policemen: The soft target that first come into our mind. They were brutal and didn't behave in the right way with the boy.
2. The boy: For breaking the law and driving the motorbike without DL.
3. Anyone else?

Categories

Finally I got the way to categorize my posts here.

It can be done as follows:
- Add labels for your each post.
- Add a gadget in your layout tab and select the "Labels" gadget.

For more help you can click on the blogger help link at the top right corner. (It would be visible once you sign in.)

Happy blogging... :)

Speed thrills, but kills

Many of us know this statement well. But the word "thrill" itself, thrills enough to tempt many of us to take the risk and still accidents keep happening due to over speeding.

If I logically analyze it in terms of risk and return, here is what my analysis says.

As far as I understand the theory of risk and return, it is worth taking a risk when the return I am getting out of it is actually way beyond what I had risked. In addition, the return that I would get, would have a significant positive impact in my future life.

Coming to over speeding, what we actually risk is our own life, the life of people in our vehicle and the life of people with whom we can possibly have an accident because of over speeding. And what are we gaining from this risk? A mere few minutes and few seconds of thrill!!!

After risking so many entire lives, we just gain "few" minutes. Is this risk worth enough to take?

Hence, let us be a responsible human being and do not over speed. Its dangerous!!!

From "Food for thought" to "Mera Parichay"...

Though, I had joined this blogger community long time back (in May 2005, just to subside my curiosity to find how one posts a blog), I actually felt that I should try my hands at writing and created a blog for me much later. It was in Nov 2006, when I published my first post "The Parent's view". I was so overwhelmed by the number of comments posted on it and the way people were debating over it, that I decided to post all the topics here as debatable and happily described it "Food for thought".

As the time passed, I kept getting new ideas to write down. But when I was about to write those down in the blog, I realized that they were just some small story not worth debatable and wasn't fitting the very idea of my blog: "Food for thought".

I started missing one important feature here in the blogger community... I wish there could have been an option to create a category for my each post and let the readers of my blogs decide what category they want to read in my blog. This would have made my life a lot easier.

I thought that why not just have two different blogs for me... one for the stuff which would be a bit more personal to me, sharing my day to day experiences, and one as this where I could have a platform to post new topics for some debate/discussion. So, I created one more blog, but before I could post anything in it, I felt a need for one more blog as what I was about to write, was not actually fitting there too. And I started missing the "category" feature even more.

Finally, I decided that instead of going on and on, and creating a lot number of blog urls, lets pour in all my thoughts into a single one and describe it as "Mera Parichay" meaning "My introduction" in english. I hope this new description inspires me to write more into it.

And this post goes in the hope that the blogger administrators would soon read this and start working on adding the "category" feature to it.

"Its never too late to learn, but sometimes its too early"

As I was reading this quote in a book, an incident of my childhood flashed through my mind and I realized, how true it was.

I was eleven years old and enjoying my summer vacation along with my friends. We found out that a sparrow had laid a nest in one of the ventilators of our house and new born little birds had hatched from the eggs.

Curious by their chirping sound, we decided to check these out. So, one of my friend climbed up to the ventilator, picked one little bird and dropped it below where I was holding a small net to catch it. He came down and we played a lot with it. We named it "choo choo".

It was very tiny and the wings had not yet properly developed. Initially it was a bit scared, but when we fed it with some grains and insects it became comfortable with us. It was running all over the house and then come back to us. It sat on our hands and used to look at us as if it was trying to find something from our faces. Finally, when we felt that we had played enough and its mother would be looking for it, we left it back in its nest and forgot about it.

The next day I saw "choo choo" just below the nest on the floor; dead. I always kept wondering how come it died.

It was much years later when I realized, "choo choo" had learnt to run and jump from the nest before its wings had developed.

"Its never too late to learn, but sometimes its too early"