In Convenience

Couple of years back when the electricity went off for 24 hrs in California, the newspapers saw it as a major news because that country couldn't’t survive without electricity. This may sound silly to a town dwellers of india where the power cuts are quite frequent. But this was rather a scary picture of a convenience hungry world. We have moved from one world to another, there was a time when you could live without phones, travel without bikes or cars, enjoy by not having TV at home and now we all have moved to a new world where the life dawns when the petrol price increase, when traffic block stops your travel, when you don’t get a house with a European commode, when water stops to come for 1 hr. Gazing from the window of that house what you can just do is see the past days of total independence disappearing away into gloom getting replaced by a cripple nation heavily dependent on the machines, and for that you still may have to use your brains.