road side beauty

Road Side Beauty


This was an incident of winter’2007; I was coming back to Bhopal by 6 am bus. It was very cold actually and a stiff environment. It was in Itarsi, I was enjoying my tea with a book in hand. Even though it was 9 at morning, but it was too cold. I was wearing a denim jacket and a muffler. So, one can imagine the pinch of cold evil wind around that time.
Then suddenly I watched through the window, which was very striking; a lady of around 40 approx sitting with her girl (hardly 20) on the dirty pavement along side the rode. The most striking thing was their face; for sure the girl was neither looking as miss universe or something. But one will sure want to see that kind of face in a big screen. Yes! She was indeed a symbol of beauty. Not Cleopatra or Elizabeth, but someone whom you cant deny. But there was a evil fact about that girl, her cloths were dirty and torn, one could see her naked body from outside, hands were covered with mud and dirt, as if she washed herself a decade ago. She looked poor then an beggar, or she was a beggar, I can’t tell. The irony of the condition is that we, the normal people are afraid of getting on to that condition, resulting in our ignorance about their pain.
As soon as I saw that road side beauty, I felt pity on her, then on myself. I realized that its just the matter of fact that you and me are not facing the conditions prevailed to her. We are not been betrayed like her. Fellow beings like her and others often get indulged in crime and wrong thing. Don’t you think we, how often ignore them and act like a moron, are serving them with a reason to fall in the pit of trouble. There are NGO; govt. agencies etc. who are striving to help those road side peoples. There are indeed many funds rose every year to serve those, but do you think those raised funds ever reach the victims, the obvious answer is NO! And we never stop enjoying our part of life.
It’s my prime and simple urge to every individual to make them feel that they are special, special to you, to me and to the world. I have and always will have beautiful face hidden somewhere in my heart and soul. Hope that everyone will face such a beautiful reality, one day........