Roads - or Not roads
I had even prepared the title - encroached lives. But sadly, I don’t have pictures now. I really wanted to show you the picture of a road - hardly 10-12 feet wide, which has a trench on one side. But I don't think I need to, as all of us Indians witness such roads quite often. The story is long. In my native town of sirsi, the roads are bad. As in the rest of the nation. They are very narrow. But here for my mother’s house, the road was bumpy, full of stones. Very difficult to walk or ride. And the best part is, all the residents are super seniors. So, their walking in these roads is highly risky. They tried to get an asphalted road, sent petition after petition. After struggling for 5 years they finally got a cement road. The beauty of the road was, it was almost a foot taller. Which made the houses at a lower height than the road. So when it rains, the water from road flows into the compounds of the house. Ok, that’s history. Now suddenly, the local gover...