TRUE SYMBOLISM ?

 At times we the people give more importance to symbolism than the spirit embedded in it ! The best example is the number of statues of great leaders of yore some erected even with great pomp and fanfare. Many of them including that of the Father of the Nation are at the centres of busy junctions of traffic where people simply look at them to find  crows and pigeons sitting on them and shitting, some even with paints faded, limbs mutilated, may be in vandalism the order of the day, and in some cases ,the figures beyond any semblance of identification !

And all this on a road where even people in power keep on moving at jet speeds looking through the tinted glasses of BMWs or Limousines, zooming past the statues with roads kept fully cleared for their movement as if they are only meant for them, with no one practically bothered about the fate of them ! What a colossus waste and what a height of indifference and what a disgusting way of symbolism ? All this treatment for those who literally sacrificed their care and comfort , money and material, time and thought for the sake of the nation ! To live up to the ideals they stood for is a fitting tribute rather than erecting the statues with no maintenance thereafter.In other words we preach lofty ideals and implement nasty practices !. We announce grand ambitions but when ill implemented ,end up with grave consequences ! We boast of the past but are lost in the present ! 

See you with my next post at 8 am tomorrow !

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