Before a decade, I drove on Jammu to Shrinagar highway and was in fear all the way where my vehicle may pass on the delapidated bridges builted in a gone-back years or not. That was my condition of my own ... that looking at the road and bridges of Jammu to Shrinagar, I will be trapped to death when hundered and thundered of vehicles with full load in and out of the car at the luggage overhead, will able to carry the load of vehicles. Where the number of my vehicle in lane is more than seventy. There was a death trapped in my mind, and after decades passed, I took my journey along with my journalist son & daughter in law, who is the high court lawyer took her law lessons from her father, infact she got her LLM degree in crime from the university.
This time, our driver drove a vehicle at the speed of 60-70, and in a few sections, it was little more than eighty.
Look that scooter, she shouted, as one made a criminal act, my daughter in law shouted ... ENHE SUTAN CHAHIYE, uttered my son, and MARA-MARA said my grand daughter added me to say SALA MARA.
My driver slowed down the car as he had been warned to obey the speed signs boards on the side of the road.
The next hour passed by road was of sign "WORK IS IN PROGRESS" board. Definitely, our car closed all the glasses, so that dirt should not come in. There was a factory of HOT MIXTURES, STONE CRUSHERS, and half a dozen dumpets on the works sight. So were the cut lines plastics made stools on the road to avoid the accidents at the work sights.
Three boys appeared there on motorcycles came in the front of our vehicle shouting, smiling, making hall-gulla and with over acting kicked off the stools of the sigh board. It came in our way, and as the speed was not much, our driver cut the lane and came on the other right side of the road, blocking the speed of the opposite side vehicle. The accident avoded since the speed was but driver of the opposit direction vehicle was also on alert.
One of the pilon rider drinking water bottles was thrown on the road and it hits by the other side vehicle, made ultra sounds, cracked the plastic MT bottle and throne away on the other side coming vehicle, not damages, but made cracker voice, to fear every one, when the cars took their speeds.
Should they be stopped, my son said. Should they be punished by law? my daughter in law said, and little my 10 years daughter, Girls Head Caption at the Saint Francis De Sails High School, Nagpur uttered to be punished the boyes to make GHODA, KAN PAKADKE, OUT OF THE CLASS ROOM, if the motercycles young boyes would have thrown the water bottle after drink.
What kind of punishment would the boys have given is second thought erupted in my mind ... but yes, the stone on the street, if it came in the way of the running vehicle, does crack the glass, and on some occasions, it may be going to make you blind, often told to me Mr. Harshad Katkoriyas father who had his window display on Variety Square, Sitabuldi, Nagpur.
