Every time our car stopped at those traffic signals we saw toddlers , poor kids , naked playing with broken utensils and thrown away dolls , most often an infant in another kids arms , sometimes begging and sometimes just playing in dirt , so many kids under any flyover , anytime

anytime we could see them in all these big draconian cities . We ignored , I ignored .... yes my heart used to break into thousand pieces when in harsh Mumbai monsoon some of them would come knocking on my car window ,

begging , many wise people advised me not to give them money , in the beginning I didn’t pay heed to their advise but later I agreed , I started keeping biscuit packets in my car and starting giving them but I always knew I was guilty , guilty as hell . I felt frustrated

and often would cry alone in my car looking at those poor beautiful kids just playing with rain , with dust , with each other , so poor , so helpless , Godless !
Now when this pandemic has hit us all so badly , we have started talking about poor people , now we call them Migrant

The terrifying image of a toddler and his dead mother sends chills to our bones . Who are we ? What are we ? We human beings are shameless creatures . It’s disgusting how mean and cruel we all actually are !
I used to often think why are these poor people producing kids , why ?

Why bring life when we can’t look after it ? But now I realised actually we so called educated and well to do people are selfish to the core , we want everything for ourselves . We want to own and consume this planet , we think this planet was made only for us ,

us the privileged ones ,we want to believe that by shutting our eyes or quickly shuffling through uncomfortable posts , ignoring the harsh cruel reality , we will get away from all this . We are fools , bloody fools

These politicians who are whisked away to their destinations without stopping at any signal - we chose these politicians, to rule us and in return once elected they show us their Brute power and their thumb . They divide us , they talk about mosques and temples

, they talk about our castes , our culture our languages - they steal the money that could pay for the milk for that poor kid drenched in rain , that could give him shelter , these politicians thrive on their poverty . And we so called literate educated people make sure that we..

are ruled by these corrupt , inhuman beasts .
Now in this pandemic we started thinking of migrants , these people were always miserable , nothing new . We just started seeing them because now we are at home idle , we have time otherwise we are damn busy to even see people who...

are working for us forget about the poor ones desperately asking for bread for their unfortunate kids . We the people living in big cities are absolutely ok with these desperate miserable kids , seeing them everyday at a street corner , drenched in rain , naked .

We are ok , absolutely ok with it , as long as our stupid miserable life seems busy .
But now we are f****d