In an almost similar reprisal of the gruesome and macabre incident reported from Odisha about a tribal carrying his beloved wife's mortal remains on his shoulders for ten odd kilometres; here comes the news about the same being repeated in Madhya Pradesh.......
The difference if any between the two equally appalling and heart rending incidents is that the gent in question carted his dear departed mother's lifeless corpse on his motorcycle for a good 12 odd kms in Madhya Pradesh's Umat area (Seoni District) late on Tuesday evening......
Bhimrao was taking his beloved 70 year old critically ill mother to a state government run community health centre in the district's Barghat area at around 6 pm or so when she abruptly drew her last breath and unceremoniously slumped on his shoulders......
Sorrowfully and penitently realising the fact that his mater had passed away before she could gain recourse to the much desired medical aid Bhimrao proceeded to call the 108 ambulance service from his mobile phone so that he could expedite the carriage of his mother's mortal remains from the spot of her passing to their modest residence in Umat (which was 12 odd kms or so away) from her place of passing.......
Thank the good lord for tender mercies as the perennially late and increasingly petulant ambulance service arrived at the designated spot within a mere ten minutes or so after being summoned but Bhimrao got the shock of his rather unremarkable 35 odd year life when the driver and attender manning the ambulance steadfastly and obstinately refused to cart the 70 year old woman's lifeless being to the desired destination as the ambulance was only meant for the living and not for those mortals who had departed from the land of the living in their "esteemed" opinion.......
Despite Bhimrao pleading his case with folded hands and bended knees; his piteous pleadings made no difference whatsoever on the demonic duo who sped away from the spot within the proverbial batting of an eyelid leaving Bhimrao with no other option apart from carrying his mother's immortal soul and senseless body to their modest dwelling on his trusted steed......
Passers by who noticed Bhimrao's sorry plight made repeated telephone calls to the ambulance service's chief co-ordinator who also haughtily dismissed their concerns by parroting the lines about the said ambulance service being only for the living and disdainfully ordered them to call the cadaver vans if they intended to transport their deceased loved one's.......
This bizarre incident was brought to the district collectors notice and the senior bureaucrat somewhat condescendingly ordered an "official high ranking enquiry" (that all of us know will achieve precious little) and held out the much abused and stereotypical response of meting out the most stringent punishments to the so called "culprits" once the official enquiring into this satanic incident submits his report on the same within the next seven days as mandated......
Can one do anything more than lament the untimely and rather premature demise of the humanitarian spirit and the emergence of our devilish and demonic side that dominates all else.......
The difference if any between the two equally appalling and heart rending incidents is that the gent in question carted his dear departed mother's lifeless corpse on his motorcycle for a good 12 odd kms in Madhya Pradesh's Umat area (Seoni District) late on Tuesday evening......
Bhimrao was taking his beloved 70 year old critically ill mother to a state government run community health centre in the district's Barghat area at around 6 pm or so when she abruptly drew her last breath and unceremoniously slumped on his shoulders......
Sorrowfully and penitently realising the fact that his mater had passed away before she could gain recourse to the much desired medical aid Bhimrao proceeded to call the 108 ambulance service from his mobile phone so that he could expedite the carriage of his mother's mortal remains from the spot of her passing to their modest residence in Umat (which was 12 odd kms or so away) from her place of passing.......
Thank the good lord for tender mercies as the perennially late and increasingly petulant ambulance service arrived at the designated spot within a mere ten minutes or so after being summoned but Bhimrao got the shock of his rather unremarkable 35 odd year life when the driver and attender manning the ambulance steadfastly and obstinately refused to cart the 70 year old woman's lifeless being to the desired destination as the ambulance was only meant for the living and not for those mortals who had departed from the land of the living in their "esteemed" opinion.......
Despite Bhimrao pleading his case with folded hands and bended knees; his piteous pleadings made no difference whatsoever on the demonic duo who sped away from the spot within the proverbial batting of an eyelid leaving Bhimrao with no other option apart from carrying his mother's immortal soul and senseless body to their modest dwelling on his trusted steed......
Passers by who noticed Bhimrao's sorry plight made repeated telephone calls to the ambulance service's chief co-ordinator who also haughtily dismissed their concerns by parroting the lines about the said ambulance service being only for the living and disdainfully ordered them to call the cadaver vans if they intended to transport their deceased loved one's.......
This bizarre incident was brought to the district collectors notice and the senior bureaucrat somewhat condescendingly ordered an "official high ranking enquiry" (that all of us know will achieve precious little) and held out the much abused and stereotypical response of meting out the most stringent punishments to the so called "culprits" once the official enquiring into this satanic incident submits his report on the same within the next seven days as mandated......
Can one do anything more than lament the untimely and rather premature demise of the humanitarian spirit and the emergence of our devilish and demonic side that dominates all else.......
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