Cavemen in Hyderabad
Every time I get on Hyderabad roads, I see cavemen all around… Now you must be wondering why do I hallucinate, and let me tell you I am not on drugs either.
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But before I tell you more about cavemen, let me first tell you about the movie ‘Idiocracy’ I saw yesterday. It was the dumbest movie ever seen. The story goes like this… a man and women as a part of an experiment are put to sleep in 2005 to woke up a year later, but instead they woke up 500 years later in 2505, just to find that the humans have become dumbass, with no IQ… so the movie was about the rise and fall of human intelligence. |
Ok now let’s come back to our very own Hyderabad. Just imagine about a person who slept 30000 years ago and woke up one fine day and finds himself in 21st century’s Hyderabad, where everyone follows traffic rules, drive in lane, do not break traffic lights, and do not honk. I know it is hard to imagine, but for fun sake just imagine. What will happen if you give a crash course in driving to this caveman? When he will come on the road, he will be so confused, will not have an idea what to do, where to go, he will come into wrong direction (poor guy, he does not know traffic rules), he will blow horn – again and again because he is enjoying the sound, he will break the light, imagine what all he will do.
Now imagine everyone on the road like him! This is what the real situation is on Hyderabad’s roads. Everyone behaves like this caveman, without any civic sense of driving… and what are our good traffic policewala doing…?Nothing! He is too polite and humble to do anything.
Humans have evolved from apes and even after thousands of years of evolution there is still an ape in everyone. Most of the time that ape lyes dormant but thats not true in Hyderabad, and this is not just limited to a rickshaw or auto wala, or a taxi driver. This also included the likes of highly educated engineers, managers driving big cars and bikes, working in big MNCs. I have observed people who are well behaved in office (most of the time), as soon as they step out in open the ape inside them takes over. They looses all their civic sense and gets in to road rage…
To a great extent our very own police is responsible for this. Law runs on fear – no fear, no law. Traffic police here is too lazy and soft to infuse any kind of fear in the people. Everyday, I see people breaking the law in front of a police guy, because that person knows that first the policewala will not see him, even if he see him he will not catch him.
I wonder how long I will crib about this… I can go on and on and on… and I dont see any reprise from this, at least in near future…. We have become so insensitive, overtaking someone seems more important than driving in lane or follow traffic rules.
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Oh stop cribbing about cavemen in Hyderabad! Come to Bangalore and you would find species from pre-historic era plying on the roads, all fighting for some space. Darwin’s law of “survival of the fittest” is best displayed here
Puja, I was last month in Bangalore and I agree with you that there is no space on the roads, but at least what I observed was that people follow rules and police does not just stand on the signal…
What did I hear? People in Blore follow traffic rules!! On the contrary bloreans are the worst when it comes to traffic discipline. What do you think whats the purpose of footpaths? Well if you ask a b’lorean he wud say its laid for two wheeler rider.. No doubt there is a crunch of space on the roads..
I wonder if ppl really understand the meaning of lane driving, zebra crossing..
God save INDIA.
Honking at Redlight traffic signals, Honking to give way at signals, Ignoring Ambulance in traffic jam, Overtaking at horryfing speed from Left, jumping signals on RED,Driving 2 wheelers with half neck bent as talking on cell phone….so many of them ..
If a traffic police catches them, people say “Main kaun hun malum?”, and ultimately bribe and getway, and if a citizen educates about the same voilation, people say “tereku kaiku ?”.
So, we dont want to learn, we cannot learn, and we can never unlearn,re-learn. We can only live like this and we die in this and all our life goes in cribbing about this kinda life, we cannot wake up to make it better.
I say Here in India there is no value for life, forget about human life. In western countries normal citizens, police, emergencies spend hours/days to save a deer stuck in road side mud, but here in India we care a damn even if somebody (human) is killed on the road side, or injured…we cannot value life or a living being here in India.
Its our educated who do these, not an illiterate. People buy more than 20 lakh worth cars, and dont even have 2 paisa worth of sense (brain).
But what can we do about it ?, its our country, our roads, our people….so what can we do ?, if at all, then can we do something about it ??
Mani, I second your thoughts.
LOL
… Cavemen who found a way to get to the stores and the malls, yet remain unaware of certain basic laws of cosmic consciousness ! Chasing the material dream living a supposed finite life. All of this is changing and awareness is sweeping the masses ! The ones who choose to remain blissfully ignorant a surprise awaits as the power of instant karma engulfs us all … the law of attraction which governs all human consciousness !
The time of chaos and fear is to cease and a new age of love shall dawn !
Abhishek,
Well I agree with you to some extent but I dont see any considerable attitude change in near future. People love to be blissfully ignorant!
Hyderabad was awarded as the worst traffic rules following cities in India. Lets Us follow rules first.