Indian soldiers.

Yesterday, I read somewhere about the death of a British Lieutenant Colonel in Afghanistan. I came to know that some of them carry a video camera on the top of their head to record the proceedings of the war. It was because of this camera that the killing of that Colonel was recorded and was made public afterwards. It showed that he was hiding himself somewhere. He tried to contact some other soldier through his radio, but couldn't find good signal. So, he had to come out from the hiding place. Doing this he was seen by the Taliban and was shot.One of his artery was severely damaged.

Other soldiers, when they saw it, called for help. They asked for a helicopter to take the Colonel to the hospital. Due to some unknown reasons the helicopter took almost an hour to reach the place.He was then immediately taken to the nearest hospital. But, even three hours of intensive medical treatment by the doctors couldn't save him.

The story doesn't end here. Questions were raised by the media and the public for the lack of facilities which ultimately led to the Colonel's demise. Even the Prime Minister had to answer the public. Though the explanations by the Army and the PM were not satisfactory, the whole incident reveals the fact that the death of one Colonel can be such big event in Britain.

I was trying to relate the same situation in India. Think of a news on the fifth page of a national daily which shows a picture where an old lady is crying in front of a dead body wrapped in a white cloth. This has been a common sight so we tend to ignore it. But don't we have the responsibility to think about them and pray for their soul. After all they have given up their life so that we could live in peace. They are not given such facilities which the soldiers of other countries get. They can't even think that a helicopter will come to rescue them in need. The situation in which the soldier has died would never be made public. Even it gets public, an Indian can't question the Army or the PM for the death of a soldier anywhere. We must be proud of our soldiers who don't think of themselves when are on duty of saving the live of the people of India.
We don't see such feelings in the soldiers of other countries even when they are given so much facilities.

When I think of the Police forces of India then also I tend to feel that they are being neglected. I have read that they are given just Rs. 300 for their dress in an year for the last 20 or 30 years. We can imagine when some of them are paid Rs 4000 as salary how they can manage the difference for their dress from their income. There have instances where a police had to wake up at 3 in the morning to go for duty in an election because they had just 1 bathroom to share among 17 policemen. Then they had to do their duty for the whole day without them being given time for the lunch as that constituency came under the list of sensitive constituencies. There are several other instance like this where the people who care for us are neglected.

We must pay attention towards them otherwise they too will loose their commitment and ultimately we would have to suffer. At least we must do it for ourselves.