After moving us with
her courageous story, Ira Singhal, the first differently-able woman to top the
UPSC civil services examination in the general category shared a shameful
incident of public apathy on Facebook.
She has to face a situation where she was not
able to road accident victims, one of who succumbed to injuries and died.
Singhal put up the following
post on Facebook:
“Today, 4 of us were travelling down from Mussoorie to Delhi. Midway, in
Muradnagar, we came across an accident. A Maruti had crashed into a tractor and
the driver and the passenger of the Maruti were badly injured. We stopped to
help and alongwith the collected locals on this extremely busy Delhi-Meerut
highway, we pulled the two of them out. To transport this badly injured and
bleeding two, we called the local ambulance but to no avail. In the meantime, I
decided to stop the passing traffic in the hope that I could find at least one
car to transport the one of the two. All the cars were slowing down when
passing us in order to stare at the mess and glorify in the horrific scene. But
as I knocked and banged on the sides of at least 20 cars and waved frantically
to many many more, NOT EVEN ONE stopped. This is our humanity. We finally
called the police van and transported one of them. The other died on scene. It
saddens me that not even ONE of those people thought that it could have been
them just as easily. Not even one had enough shreds of humanity to stop and
help. Is this the nation we have created for ourselves? For all that these
drivers knew, I was a tiny girl asking them to help in the dark night on a busy
road on the scene of a horrible accident. And they all refused. This is our
world. This is us.”
– Ira Singhal
– Ira Singhal
This is
not the first time that such an incident of apathy has come to light. In the
December 2012 gang rape case, the victim and her injured friend were dumped on
the roadside in Delhi, bleeding and naked. The victim's friend tried to flag
down several vehicles, but no one stopped, according to a statement given by
him to the police. They lay on the road, crying for help for over 20 minutes
before some commuters came to their aid.
Till the time we don’t realise our
responsibility, we have no right to question the authorities. We don’t help a
road accident victim, there might be a day, when there will be no one to help
us.
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