“Being Human” I have
always quest for new learning, for new lessons. This time the learning has come
from none other than “Bhai” of bollywood. Thank you Salman for the eye opener
lessons you have taught me. In a nation where smashing of the soldiers across the borderline doesn’t make so much
hue and cry, where thousands of cases of road accident are reported on daily
basis, there a simple “HIT and RUN” case has become the talk of the
nation. This is really the power of your
charisma! Great, Indeed! I was left numb
to see on television that how much you are loved by people. Your bail was
celebrated as if Lord Rama had come back to home that also without one day in vanvaas!
If you have stolen the heart of your fans, same you did to the mind of
your critics who were amply showing their anguish over your bail. But I am
neither your fan nor your critic. I as a neutral citizen have learnt so much
from it and for that I am really grateful to you!
You know what the name
of your NGO Being Human simply reminds me that journey from human being to
being human is the most sensitive and hardest thing on one’s part. For this we
need not be educated and aware but we need to have a heart who can understand
the sufferings of the people, who can feel their pain, who can comprehend their
helpless. Believe me until I had read in the newspapers that you have hit and killed a man and wounded other four, I
would have believed that most of the high class, elite, socially
networked and so called aware people
of India are in better position to grasp the difficulties of Indian poor. Only
your case gave me a jolt and helped me to come out of my deep slumber. It made
me realize that people here have become so aware that they could question why
those poor were sleeping on footpath than wondering that no one chooses to
sleep at footpath. It’s true that everyone wants a roof over their head but
nobody happily chooses the blue sky as their cover, however big and enlarged it
is! It simply proved to me that no networking can make us social if we
disconnect ourselves from the humanity within! Just because you are a star
doesn’t mean poor whom you ran over are bekar
(useless). Just because they were on wrong place, that also due to some
compulsion, never sets your wrong right! Instead of thinking that why even
after 68 years of Independence we are not able to provide roof to poor, we are
questioning on their poor choice! Irony!
Till now I was happy
and proud as a citizen of a democratic country where Rule of law is prevailing
in letter and spirit. I was under misimpression that purpose of this was to
empower the people against the discretionary lot of the muscle and money power.
It simply meant that like are treated alike. But you taught me a new lesson
that we follow the rule of law in letters and not in spirit and that too these
letter are adjusted as per the status of the person involved in. The way the case is handled and got shifted
from one court to other in the 13 years itself proves how committed we are for
the rule of law! Is it facilitated to every citizen of the nation or only
because some big name was associated with it! Well, even after 13 years wait
you are convicted with 5 years jail. I respect the law of the land. 5 years
Jail is good enough to teach the derailed spirit but you got bail within hours
without spending even 1 day in the jail! By chance when the case is further
disposed off, it will take another 5-10 years. Even if justice is done at that
time, as done by our judiciary now after such a long probe, will it really
serve the purpose? Thank you Salman! If you wouldn’t have been there I would
have never understood theta spirit of our rule of law is lettered with muscle
and money power!!
Till now I was proud on
the progressive, kind and compassionate nature of Indian Masses. Your case
showed me their dual face. Your lovely fans love your act of courage, action,
valor, compassion on the screen. In fact your qualities as being human on
screen had made you their hero, no matter what you do off screen. If this would
happen on screen, neither you would have run after hitting the poor nor they
would have appreciated and defended your run. On screen you must have taken
care of those poor people even by donating your blood and what all. Your fans
would have shed tears of pride, whistled, hooted and clapped on your HEROIC
deed. If you would have run in the movie as well, they would have spoken all
shit and labeled you as a villain. But why the story changes in the real world.
What they don’t appreciate in the reel why are they supporting that in the real
life. Isn’t it hypocrisy! If yes, why they make a hue and cry about the
hypocritical behavior of our leader? Just because they are aware enough to know
their twist and turns, doesn’t make them any different from them! If you were
really innocent why did you ran away? Why didn’t you stand up for those poor
and took them to hospital? Had you forgotten about being human when you had
smashed those human beings?
Dear Salman, you a
star, a superstar indeed! You are a celebrity! People follow what you show to
them! They love you like mad! Next time please teach them something worth
following, something which can help in preserving the generations not
devastating their trust in humanity and democracy. I hope lessons learnt this
time, will help in unlearning the celebrity craze and relearn the value of
being human!
