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Dangerous Masters & Obedient Servants

It is all in the game said someone. See the coin, it has two sides and one without the other wouldn't carry much weight. It is dangerous too! How? It may be construed from a simple reality that the world has seen enough bloodshed over money. Kingdoms and countries plundered in the name game to raise levels in power play. But to benefit the fiefdom of the lessee? That is dangerous. Thus came into existence Masters who were Dangerous. These dangerous masters needed obedient Servants for to satisfy their never ending list of wishes. Ragging though has been banned from Colleges across the country, but do we talk about ragging in real life? Our lives are held hostage in smaller fiefs of dangerous masters! Be it the local rickshaw-puller, the bus conductor or your office colleague. They are more knowledgeable and can rag you every now and then with impeccable impunity. Immunity to being caught offtrack while ragging by such people is their subscribing to even more dangerous masters. So

Accidents

Accidents in this great land of ours that boasts of a great civilisation has become too frequent to care about. To remain calm and forget; as time is the biggest healer perhaps is one of our compulsions. Lord Buddha might have preached this too in current scenario with Mahatma Gandhi adding flavours. But what when your followers dwindle by the act of genocide and modern cannibalism? Our security is perhaps is in our own hands. But allow me to say that the companies that sell security perhaps will be the biggest achievers with sales breaking all known barriers of marketing . The recent spurt in organised market of crime and related activities has flourished to such an extent that commoners have become easy targets of prey. Our approach towards accidents is strange too. I could not help appreciating a comment made on TV by an eminent activist on railway consumer disputes, when he said, "Engines roll, bogies roll, passengers roll but not a HEAD roll". Accidents on roads are