A WEIRD INCIDENT-MENTALITY OF EDUCATED YOUTH

It was a treat from 2 of my friends, Athreya and Raghavan, at the Green Leaf hotel, which is one of the famous hotels here in Mysore. Athreya, for his birthday and Raghavan, for getting placed in Wipro-VLSI. We were 10 of us, who had gathered there we waited for 15 to 20 minutes outside, since there was no place to sit, because of a huge crowd, as it was a Sunday. We ensconced, and each one of us ready for a banquet, by 8-30 p.m.. The hors-douevre, entree and the desserts were everything exemplary, not to be surprised as I have already stated of the hotel. The other 8 of us, were least bothered about the bill, since it was a treat. Athreya and Raghavan payed the bill and we all came out bantering each other. It was that time, this weird incident happened.

I had parked my bike, just behind the hotel. There is a coffee day, on top of the hotel, and a passage way from the delicatessein directly to the road. I took my bike, and was about to start. Packy, who had come with me just sat behind. A chair, about 7 to 8 kgs, came flying from nowhere and hit the ground just 1 meter beside us. We looked in all 3-D directions, and couldnt find the reason as to why that chair was there. If that had fallen on any ones head, probably he needed to have atleast 5 to 6 stitches, to rally. The impact on the ground appeared to be such a strong one. I and Packy laughed loudly with an illusion of a phantom in the mind. Then, Packy turned back and actually it was a person who threw the chair. He was sitting in the passage way from the coffee day. He was drunken, and he thought that laughter, we were ridiculing him. We swiftly passed by to the other side of the road. By that time, Athreya and Raghavan were just about to move in Athreya's victor bike. I do not know, what triggered in the mind of the drunken idiot, he came running to catch hold of them and he caught Raghavan's shirt, who was sitting behind Athreya. We were waiting for them, so that we all could depart to our houses. We turned behind, noticing this action of the drunkard. He was indeed shouting and became violent later. Athreya crashed into one of the parked vehicles on the other side of the K.D road. He lost control, trying to elude from the violent drunkard. That bloody drunkard broke Raghavan's and Athreya's helmets and both of them took some blows from him. Indeed, that drunken fellow was pointing to me and Packy, asking Athreya and Raghavan to call those people who ridiculed him, which he thought. It is that laughter of me and Packy which has most probably triggered him to commit such a violent action. At this time, two policemen passing in the same way after finishing their duty came to our help. One was a lady police in that. The group of friends of the drunkard, came to control their outrageous friend. There was a rift between us and that drunken group, in which only Raghavan and Athreya experienced the brunt. The policemen decreed us to leave the place before something serious could happen. All of us gathered near my place, and everyone was retrospective about what, why and how of that weird incident.

Indeed, we were least bothered to lodge a complaint in the nearby police station, about the incident. These kinds of people are existing and will continue to exist until some of these kinds of incidents are lodged as complaint and until some serious action is taken against such people creating nuissance. It happened to us today, and it may indeed happen to our parents in the future. We, the youths are ourselves afraid about the pros and cons of lodging the complaint. We think that, why do we need to get entangled in such law issues and this was one of the reasons my friends stated when I asked whether we shall lodge a complaint. I dont mean that I was right nor he is. I am just trying to describe the mentality of the youth, indeed the educated in particular. If we, ourselves who are educated think in these line, what to blame the illiterate youth. What we want today is to have some kind of fun while studying in India until fininshing the undergraduate and go abroad, dedicate our service to the improvement of some other country. One thing is for sure, it is when we, the youth of India, transform ourselves from armchair intellectuals to acting really to the retribution of such scoundrels, our nation can progress. Until then, such rogues will continue to exist creating nuissance in various places across the whole country. We definitely have to rise to the occassion, before its not too late.