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Death of Rizwan and beyond

I guess I do not need to tell the story sorry the mysterious eventualities involving Rizwan and Priyanka. Neither I am interested to describe and draw some conclusion on the incident. I am more interested about the way we reacted or should have reacted. There is so many spices like rich poor division , religious , social , power play aspect in the events. After the mysterious death of the protagonist there is lot of candle light and media hype. Everybody is furious about the death of the young boy or about the money power involved in the incident. I feel people are missing some very basic points. People are more interested about the incident not about the problem as a whole and where we stand. We are ready for the scalp of the accused persons. But how many of us take a deep breath and ask ourselves how we would have reacted in case some one of our very own involved. No doubt we have every right to seek justice for someone but what I think most important is what we learn and how we evol

Missing kiss of death narrowly

Yesterday there was a strike call in West Bengal. The roads were almost empty. I usually leave office at 9:00 to 9:30 pm. But since I anticipated less transportation option I left early at around 8:00 pm and took a shuttle. The shuttle car was a white colored ambassador. The driver was young and energetic. Fortunately I got seat in the front just beside him. Around the middle of the the journey there is a place called Science city. There we need to cross a bridge. Few yards before the the bridge a speeding Tata Sumo crossed our car from left side to the right. Just before the bridge the same car was pushing our car towards left. Our car was running at around 60 km/h. In front of our car just few feet away there was another car blocking our car from moving forward. The Sumo was pushing from right side, in the front side vacant car blocking us from speeding away and in the left side was a small bush separating two roads at slightly different level just before the bridge. My co-passeng