My experiences on that eventful day

I spent wednesday night(the day Rajkumar died) in my friend's place near office.Started thursday afternoon to my home by my cycle( which i use to commute to office everyday).The roads were all deserted.No traffic at all.Only a few cars plied.All vehicles had The actor's photo stuck on the windscreen.Looked as though the whole city had slept!!!Then i came home and watched TV.Saw all the scenes of voilence and felt very bad.I had a train to catch @ 7 pm.There was supposed to be a procession too.I din want to get late because of the procession.So idecided to start early.

There was no mode of transport.The autowallahs demanded 2-3 times the money it costs me for the ticket home.So decided it was best and safest to cyle down to the station.But the problem was i had to cross the kanteerva stadium(where the body was kept and which was the nucleus of the rioting) to go there.I knew no other route.So i took the bangalore map as a backup and stuck the actors newpaper photo to my knapsack and started.As i went towards the stadium i saw a steady crowd trickle in opposite direction.All walking angrily and most in drunken rage.I juut put my head down,pulled down my cap and made sure not to see anyone in the eye and not to pedal fast.I had no problems with anyone.All through the way i saw the remnants of the riot.Stones strewn all along the road.Glass windows and exteriors broken.Windshield glass strewn all over the roads.The amount of evidence of riot increased as i approached the stadium.
Near the stadium i could see a lot of slippers.. clothes.. some blood..(very minimal though)..smouldering soot on the road(The burnt vehicles had been towed away by then).. Armed police every 10 feet.Not a single building in the vicinity had a unbroken piece of glass.It was as though i had entered a war zone.The eerieness of the place cant be described by any adjective.Felt a knot very sick and sad by the days events.Finally reached the station @ 3.15 pm.Found a bench and slept on it till 6.Then boarded the train as though nothing had happened.Thats what we all are trained to.Dont react to problems

The chaos and mayhem on Rajkumar's death.

A great actor, who has donned a variety of roles , who has the crazy following of a whole state's population , who is demigod to most of them died on the 12th of april, wednesday.He died a natural death.No one intimidated ,threatened , kidnapped or killed him.He died of cardiac arrest and due to old age.But his death claimed at least six lives as tens of thousands of angry fans smashed cars, burnt buses and battled with the police on Thursday.U could ask whats the reason!!The answer would be "NO REASON..ONLY STUPIDITY"..It happens only in india..
Needless voilence wasted crores worth of property and 6 priceless lives.Was is really worth it in retrospection?? No one has time to think.We all just walk in monday morning to work as if nothing happened over the weekend.What else can we do anyways!! All we can do is avoid the mob and shut all doors!!
Did u know what was the most common feature among the rioters(i mean the ones who caused all casualtities).. Guess.. were they all kannadigas..were they all in thier teens.. were they all from rural backgrounds.. were they all uneducated... NO is the answer to all questions.The only thing in common was they were all drunk as a skunk..Some of them were tamil even.Some were educated too.But it was like a free for all.All that mattered was having some fun.Do u have any feeling in some corner of ur mind that all these were due to thier sadness and anger at the loss of their god like figure..U wont have that if u had watched the new channel footage of the burning busses.The rioters were all laughing , giggling, jostling and jumping over one another to get themselves on camera.Do u call this mourning???
Police were dragged out, chased and beaten.The footage was repeatedly shown in all TVs.Now who will respect the Police force in the city anymore when they cant protect themselves??The whole incident was a very sad one for the whole of Bangalore..Even though most people are peaceful the image of Bangalore is already dented beyond repair.What can we do to prevent such happenings..what we think does not matter..The people concerned should think...will they?? lets wait and watch until another such incident unfolds in another place :-(...

I am back..Will post once a week atleast..(vow)

It would suggest from my lack of posts for a long time that i have failed in my third attempt to maintain my blog..But i am not.. I ll try and keep the posts flowing atleast once a week.Thats my vow from this week,Lets see..