He wasn’t moving at all. I think he would have fallen from the bench on roadside. May be he was too drunk or maybe he was too weak or maybe he got a heart attack. I am not sure. He might just be murdered by someone for all I know.
Every passerby was staring at the person at least for two minutes before moving on. Someone was giving a surprised look as if saying “oh what happened old man?” another person was giving a disgusted look as if the old man was actually lying inside her leaving room creating a mess. Someone was curious, other showed pity and yet other was amused. Some people had concerned look on their faces, but still no one looked concerned enough to help the old man out.
Does it look like a scene straight out of Mumbai’s mercilessly fast life? Sorry it does not belong to my most abused, most heartless still most lovable city! It’s in a city situated on the opposite side of the globe, Bogotá (Colombia). And the same scene is often repeated in different parts of the world, in different cities and in different cultures. But the result is same, no one wants to take a step and help the fallen.
I saw a B-grade Hindi movie last week “Chitkabre”. The movie was forgettable but one dialogue stuck to my mind “human is called to be a social animal, but he neither could become social nor remained animal”. This is so apt in such scenes.
No it’s not important what I did. Though I tried to wake the old man up shaking his shoulder and then tried to ask people to help. But no one understood what I said in English. Funny isn’t it, that people in this world don’t know English. ENGLISH!!! In such a situation, for God sake even a deaf would have understood that I am asking them to help. But probably it’s not about language of tongue but of heart! And like all other things today it is also GLOBAL!!
Every passerby was staring at the person at least for two minutes before moving on. Someone was giving a surprised look as if saying “oh what happened old man?” another person was giving a disgusted look as if the old man was actually lying inside her leaving room creating a mess. Someone was curious, other showed pity and yet other was amused. Some people had concerned look on their faces, but still no one looked concerned enough to help the old man out.
Does it look like a scene straight out of Mumbai’s mercilessly fast life? Sorry it does not belong to my most abused, most heartless still most lovable city! It’s in a city situated on the opposite side of the globe, Bogotá (Colombia). And the same scene is often repeated in different parts of the world, in different cities and in different cultures. But the result is same, no one wants to take a step and help the fallen.
I saw a B-grade Hindi movie last week “Chitkabre”. The movie was forgettable but one dialogue stuck to my mind “human is called to be a social animal, but he neither could become social nor remained animal”. This is so apt in such scenes.
No it’s not important what I did. Though I tried to wake the old man up shaking his shoulder and then tried to ask people to help. But no one understood what I said in English. Funny isn’t it, that people in this world don’t know English. ENGLISH!!! In such a situation, for God sake even a deaf would have understood that I am asking them to help. But probably it’s not about language of tongue but of heart! And like all other things today it is also GLOBAL!!
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