The Milieu – 23rd August, 2006..
The setting - Mumbai Airport, while it could be just any other airport in the country
The Characters – The disgruntled husband, the tense executive, the excited family, the power-broking CEOs, the beautiful yet seemingly out-of-reach air hostesses, the sad girlfriend….every one of them tell a story that is so vivid that it cannot but, stop you for that split second in your track and merit a stare.
But if there is one story that has been quite apparent to me in the past week that I have been around the country, it’s the story of how a bunch of idiots have managed to put the fear of the living dead in the people of this country.
Airport after airport tells the same story….the fear of the next…
Be it Raipur, Indore or the Mumbai airport, the abysmally high level of security check that one has to go through is praiseworthy on one hand while at the same time, being a sad example of the terror-stricken times we are living in.
To see people going through the motions in between all this is also a poignant reminiscence of how human emotions and contact have now become very carefully played out dramas..indeed of Shakespearean proportions. The great man might well be happy if he were to see the scene today at any of our airports; nary would he have found a larger group of actors at one single stage.
Its disgusting how one has to constantly be on the vigil while at these places. Even the slightest hint of a “non-regular” expression on your face is enough to bring the Khakhi-clad guards asking you for your details and frisking your bags. Did somebody mention that the archetypical police officer does not do this in our country? I think its time to change our idea of the police officer as this corrupt, baton wielding, big-bellied hulk out to threaten people and the law.
He is now the sleek, well mannered, honest officer who is out to protect the airborne denizens of this country from evil forces. And he does it exactly as the law authorizes and expects him to.
To cite an example, my colleague was not allowed to carry a bag of batteries in his baggage and was promised delivery of the same at the destination. That we forgot to collect the same when we landed at our destination is a different matter altogether.
So all this hullabaloo does seem to have had its side effects. Our airports are now safe and our journeys safer, if all indications are to be seen and believed.
Shall continue….
The Characters – The disgruntled husband, the tense executive, the excited family, the power-broking CEOs, the beautiful yet seemingly out-of-reach air hostesses, the sad girlfriend….every one of them tell a story that is so vivid that it cannot but, stop you for that split second in your track and merit a stare.
But if there is one story that has been quite apparent to me in the past week that I have been around the country, it’s the story of how a bunch of idiots have managed to put the fear of the living dead in the people of this country.
Airport after airport tells the same story….the fear of the next…
Be it Raipur, Indore or the Mumbai airport, the abysmally high level of security check that one has to go through is praiseworthy on one hand while at the same time, being a sad example of the terror-stricken times we are living in.
To see people going through the motions in between all this is also a poignant reminiscence of how human emotions and contact have now become very carefully played out dramas..indeed of Shakespearean proportions. The great man might well be happy if he were to see the scene today at any of our airports; nary would he have found a larger group of actors at one single stage.
Its disgusting how one has to constantly be on the vigil while at these places. Even the slightest hint of a “non-regular” expression on your face is enough to bring the Khakhi-clad guards asking you for your details and frisking your bags. Did somebody mention that the archetypical police officer does not do this in our country? I think its time to change our idea of the police officer as this corrupt, baton wielding, big-bellied hulk out to threaten people and the law.
He is now the sleek, well mannered, honest officer who is out to protect the airborne denizens of this country from evil forces. And he does it exactly as the law authorizes and expects him to.
To cite an example, my colleague was not allowed to carry a bag of batteries in his baggage and was promised delivery of the same at the destination. That we forgot to collect the same when we landed at our destination is a different matter altogether.
So all this hullabaloo does seem to have had its side effects. Our airports are now safe and our journeys safer, if all indications are to be seen and believed.
Shall continue….
posted by Shree at
11:43 PM
4 Comments:
I agree. Tough life.
Actually, not as tough as getting some of your friends to leave behind an original comment..:)Do you agree?
Sarcasm is wasted. Water off a duck's back. :p
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