“SOMEBODY UP THERE MINDS

I have been raised as an agnostic. A pure reasoning, logic guides my actions. Could never believe that there could be a God , administering the affairs of the world with justice, and fair-play etc .
There are plenty of reasons, which make one change the opinions held sacrosanct and close to the chest as it were, as time rolls by.
For the past six months or so I am watching with utter amazement a strange happening which has shaken my beliefs, or non-belief.
If even a primary student were to be asked a GK question, about the likely place where the maximum traffic, of people, and all sorts of vehicles will be expected, sure enough, even a dumb kid will answer,
“Near the railway station, bus-stands etc. “
Brilliant answer indeed. The kid will make the grade.
Not so our traffic- regulators.
I am referring to the cross roads, near Alankar Cinema, at the Railway station. There are several roads converge at this junction. All the traffic to and from the railway station., a lot to and from the S.T. Bus station, some coming from Sadhu Waswani Chowk to and from Jehangir Nursing home, traffic towards Alankar cinema and further etc. There is a veritable melee.
For the past six months or more, there is no traffic signal, at this spot, and the traffic cops seem to have turned their Nelson’s eye.
The traffic cops believe that they can control the jamboree through their remote control from the chowks prior to this spot. But never at the crossroads.
Now I have turned into a confirmed believer that there has to be some one up there minding this chaos, which is a daily affair, going on unabated.
You don’t believe this ? You are invited to be there at about six in the evening. You will witness a war of cars and vehicles, fights, truces and the works and may be you may see Him up there too, busy at solving the snarling jam on the ground.

M S RANADE.
Chairman & CEO
Placewell Consultants, Pune 411007
mranade@vsnl.com
Published in Times Of India, Friday,15th Sept,06, in East Side supplement