I was at an Airport of one of the Metro Cities last week and
I noticed the people at the Departure Terminal giving the farewell to their
loved ones with teary eyes and lots of Emotions. In my opinion if you want to
see the emotional side of the country, you should visit a Railway station or an
Airport.
Luckily we are living into the Indian Culture where
traditions, customs are given lots of importance, but the sad part is Dropping
the guests or the family member to the Airport or the Railway Station to give
him a farewell is also included in our tradition nowadays. A one single person
who is been given the farewell is accompanied by some 20 odd people which is
sometimes funny. Nevertheless, every person coming to the farewell is an income
source for the Indian Railways and the Airport Authority of India, unless they
do not take the Platform Tickets (If you know What I Mean).
If we notice, emotions also comes out when in a house, a
daily soap is on. With the events happening in the #EktaKapoor’s Daily Soaps, I
have seen many houses where the women shed tears. Same thing happens in the theatres,
when in a love story, an actor or the actress dies or re unite or whatever. The
scene in the film “Bhaag Milkha Bhag” where Farhan Akhtar runs without his pair
of shoes and still wins the race, the scene in the film “3 Idiots”, when Aamir
Khan delivers the Baby and the moment the baby starts crying after “All is Well”
are examples of when the Audience is carried out by the emotions.
Another emotional moment the country saw when Mr. Narendra
Modi, went upto his mother after resigning as a CM of Gujarat for taking charge
as the PM of India. The amount of emotion was maximum when his mother fed him
the food and he ate it with her hand.
Sports also bring emotions. The moment when MS Dhoni hit that
winning shot in the 2011 Cricket World Cup, I remember myself hitting a punch
into the air and almost in tears. This emotions create a feeling of pride. A moment
I remember when I feel everybody became emotional was when Sachin Tendulkar
gave his Farewell Speech, but each and every person was in tears at the moment
when he for the last time went to the Wankhede’s Pitch and Kissed it (Even, I
am getting emotional writing this Line).
The people of India gets emotional when a girl is abused
brutally, they come on the streets and protest for the victim. But its pity
that they are the only one who did not help the girl and his friend when they
were needing the help.
In the influence of certain political parties, people
sometimes call “Bandhs” in a place, which they say is in the interest of the
people, but actually it is not. By creating “Bandhs”, the people are affected the
most. But people do that, because of emotions and that’s the sad part.
Well, we saw how India is an emotional country, but I
sometimes think, where those emotions go when we see an Orphan down on the
streets or a really poor family wandering in the place for its home. I know people
who on one hand protest for the bad things happening in the country, and
harassing their parents on the other. I sometimes feel that if India is a
country of Emotions, why is there a need of Orphanages and Old Age homes?
If there are emotions, why is a woman being abused in the
country? The problems is, we do not have emotions for the things we do not
like. Some people like their parents just for the sake of their wealth or
whatever. I have come across many parents who are so much harassed by their
wards. Why isn’t the same emotion for the parents, which we see into that woman
who is abused? Aren’t we abusing our parents by harassing them? Theirs is lot
more thinking required into this.
I hope all
of us have same emotions for everybody, be it our belongings or others.
