Last Saturday, i.e. on 17-May 2008 my wife called to
Times of India. She requested them to post a missing person ad, as one of her relatives went missing in Bangalore. The classifieds person gave the
TOI office number in MG Road. We called up the office and the person lifted the call says, he is no way responsible for such things and he will not take the request. When asked who will do it and when the one rude reply we got was, "Everybody is off and Sunday no one works and thus they cannot take the request until Monday and only Tuesday an ad can be published".
Amazing isn't it?
A 50 year old lady goes missing and neither the police nor the press act quickly to help. We went to the Yeshwantpur police station to file a compliant on Friday night, and not even a single person responded. They asked for money even to flash the news over their wireless. Only the next day after a lot of fight they registered a compliant.
Unfortunately none of us knew
Kannada, and even the SI in the police station spoke any other language other than
Kannada. It was very tough understanding what they want and what they say.
This is the state of officials here. They neither know their duty, nor the principle of "Tribhasha sutra" - which means every person in India should know English and Hindi along with his mother tongue.
TOI which speaks all nonsense about a change in the system, doesn't have a system in place to incorporate what they speak.
Folks, welcome to India.
I remember a day, at the time of dinner I asked my mother, "Mom, I would like to see Rajiv Gandhi sometime. Today he was in our town and we didn't go to see him". For which my mom replied, "Son, these days political meetings are dangerous. There can be problems/riots etc at such places. Still the next time he comes to Visakhapatnam, lets try to attend some meeting."
