One man army

Our building has more than 400 apartments using the same infrastructure and utilities. There is a notice from the Society office to use water frugally due to short supply by authorities. Each apartment has different dynamics – number of occupants, size of the flat, whether occupants take shower or bath using a mug or bucket (more lavish stylists could be using a bath tub too), number of faucets having leakage etc and no single individual is in control. The same applies to the use of electricity and other common infrastructure.

The sidewalks under our building are amongst the dirtiest in the city with accumulated litter, dog shit and broken tiles. People freely throw their empty wrappers, bottles, cans, peels and spit as the existing dirtiness invites further messing up!

The youngsters ask the guard to get an auto to the doorstep, as they don’t want to walk 50-60 steps to the road. Expecting them to use public transport will be a tall issue.

And there are so many such things as above that can break one’s heart who’s trying to contribute to the noble causes such as cleanliness, water conservation, environment, traffic decongestion etc.

But let’s follow the principle that we should do the right thing. Let’s contribute our two cents to all the above issues and leave others to do their two pounds😀!

As the famous poet Majrooh Sultanpuri has said:

मैं अकेला ही चला था जानिब-ए-मंज़िल मगर

लोग साथ आते गए और कारवाँ बनता गया

Loosely translatable as:

I had started the movement all by myself but with conviction

As people kept on joining it became a revolution.

One spark can initiate a fire that can spread like wildfire. This is the philosophy adopted by me for my writing also. Even if one reader is influenced by it, its purpose is served as it’s the first step towards a bigger revolution.