I was going to tell you about a wonderful tiger safari but I feel the need to write about two items of news today which I just feel are an example of why I cannot fathom this country and what makes it behave this way. This is a country which has so much going for it, so much potential and yet and yet …

“A senior railway engineer was run over by a train at old Delhi Railway station”. Not clear how the accident happened and perhaps it does not matter.” The body lay there for an hour and a half while two railway police forces bickered over who would lift the body. Another train was coming in and ran over the body again.”

“A maid, 10 years old complained of being ill treated by her employers. She had bruises all over her body and her eyes were swollen and her hands burnt.He employers had punished her for not making the chapatis properly”.

The article ended by saying “that the has been an increase in the case of ill-treatment to underage servants in the city this year” as if employing underage servants was just part of the course.

I cannot be indifferent to the suffering and the sheer callousness that is often displayed to human life. It makes me feel angry and despairing.This is a country that has had 60 years of Independence and democracy and still this…