Science behind a stride!!!

                  

I always wonder what makes people, including me, IMAGINE. We have this beautiful world in front of our eyes which is beyond any IMAGINATION. A walk down the road can give you infinite experiences to think, to talk and to share if you are attentive enough. As an experiment, just remember the last two minute walk you took down the road. For women, that would be called SHOPPING!! Now it is India, so there would be ‘much and more’ people. I know grammatically it should be ‘many’ people but I don’t like to measure the number of people in India. For something that cannot be counted we use much and more (Pun intended). The first thing people do is talk and in the event of India it is referred to as stalking, staring, spitting and even fighting. The most random acts you would not expect to find on the road are the ones which your eyes will have the pleasure or horror to watch. And again, it happens only in India. When I try to contemplate on why people do such things; what makes them do what they do; what makes them so haphazardly linear. Sometimes I IMAGINE that Chaos Theory was made for India. For those who don’t know The Chaos theory is the study of non linear dynamics, in which seemingly random events are actually predictable from simple deterministic equations.

And you will experience all of this in a two minute and a hundred metre walk. Now IMAGINE what you will encounter if you start walking to nearby places and shed those motorised monsters. For a start, a sure shot a circle of people circumventing an event. This event could be a combat between two gentlemen over a gentle push; a road accident getting zero-tolerance attitude from spectators; a roadside magic-cum-play-cum-dance-cum-drama show; or interestingly an advertisement campaign on a packed road. Another thing you will definitely find on the way is the developing India co-existing with traditional Bharat. Among the new light emitting diodes or showrooms, you will find some incandescent bulbs or temples. Both have the same function of buying and selling, either of goods or faith. One has regular sales and other has regular congregations. You bow your head to the temple but also gaze a look in respect to these shops. A craze to shop is similar to craving for a prayer. Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, anything that can happen will happen (MURPHY’s LAW) on a Indian road.

Now what was the aim of this Doordarshan? This is the part where you actually should have to IMAGINE. You have a world around you which you are missing sitting in your vehicles which you do not have to IMAGINE. All the chaos should now sense. It can be captivating or repulsive but it is certainly exciting. Walk as much as you can as another drop of water in the ocean of people will not raise the water level.