When trouble strikes...

This is a rehash of my post in tamil:

When trouble strikes our personal lives - we have to take action. Life leaves us no other choice.

However, in the common lives we share (societal and environmental), any common issue is promptly ignored (in India this is 100% true). Throw into the mix incompetent or careless officials, you have a truly vegetating atmosphere. Normally, we do one of the things

- We learn to live tolerating the mess
- We seethe with anger, then move on with our lives
- We rot with the rotting mess

You can see this in multiple facets - traffic signals, irresponsible police work and what not. A negligible few (not so negligible in impact, as I learnt recently) learn to live without worsening the problems and do their bit to clean up. But this will work only if a sustainable mass takes this approach, and is the true long term solution. The rare few go down to the roots and clean up a problem completely.

I witnessed an example recently of Ramesh. The water in his mansion stay area was contaminated with fecal matter to the tune of 36%. I still cannot believe this percentage and the fact that the owner did nothing to address this. His account of how he faced so many hurdles over the past ten months overcoming abuse from police, the owner and finally rectified the issue is present in the following blog posts of his. He has even posted recordings of "police inquiry" and "water inspector inquiry" in his blog.

In spite of reading all this, I am in doubt if we can pursue the same course of action with the same courage and determination that he has. Perhaps, that is what separates people in quality!

1) The true face of Tamil Nadu police
2) A success from the side of Dharma