New Century, New life, New Problems Author: Dr. K. S. Kang

 

New Century, New life, New Problems

Author: Dr. K.S. Kang

Life in new century is heavily dependent on internet. It significance emerges the moment the signals are disrupted. As soon as net goes people start complaining from diverse corners like “ How am I going to see my patients ?”, or “ How am I going to book seats for my clients on air plane?” or “ How am I going to take my online classes and give assignments to my pupils ?”. One day, among these voices I heard a strange voice saying , “ How am I going to proceed my parent counselling ?” Naturally I was drawn towards this strange voice and I asked him that I had heard about patient counselling, student counselling and even child counselling but what is this parent counselling. Frail, fair complexioned man with dark glasses replied it is comparatively new as it deals with a bi-product of modern age. Gone are the good old days when the chief patriarch of family used to deal all the issues of a child with a wooden round or square rule or rod as he firmly believed in the dictum “ Spare the rod, spoil the child.” Now a days the children are of Computer and Robot Age so they are very sensitive and susceptible to the outside changes and behaviour even of their parents. Hence parent counselling is very essential if you want to achieve the desired result from your children in future. In fact in the new century, as somebody had said, that children have stopped taking birth directly adults are born in a family. As they are ultra sensitive from their birth so they need special treatment at every juncture of life. In parent counselling parents are taught the ways to deal with computer age and robot age children who have their own fancies. Poor current generation of fathers and mothers have suffered at both the ends of life earlier at the hand of their old parent generation and now at the hands of their children. Perhaps some day some body would rise and recognize the plight of current generation and speak about their rights too.

Vandana Author: Dr. K.S. Kang

Vandana

Author: Dr. K.S. Kang

She was an average middle class Indian lady who had performed diverse roles in her life- of a daughter, sister, wife, and mother reasonably well. Vandana adored her children and spouse and was ready to make any sacrifice readily for the well being of her family members. With time her son and daughter grew into fine personalities ready to serve the world and humanity. She was living a perfectly contented and peaceful life but as fate would have it she got infected one day while she had gone to condole the death of her relative to her house. At first she did not bother about the symptoms considering it to be common cold and cough but when the symptoms persisted she on the advise of her neighbours took the test and was confirmed positive. She was isolated in her own room, confined to one room of her house. She was pained to see that her own children, whom she had kept in her womb for a period of nine months avoided and shirked from her for the fear of getting infected. She was forced to lead a prisoner’s life for no fault of her except that she contracted the virus from some person who was perhaps asymptomatic and carried the virus. Her condition deteriorated and she was admitted to hospital. Unfortunately she became critically ill when the vaccine for the malady was still a far cry and life saving medicines were in great shortage though up to some extent this shortage was artificially created by some vested interest in order to earn huge profit by selling the medicines and oxygen at exorbitant prices. Vandana breathed her last exactly five minutes after the cylinder stopped supplying oxygen. Perhaps it was half filled only that deceived her in the middle of the night. After her death her body was lying wrapped in a plastic cover and her own family members out of fear of getting infected did not go near her even to close her eyes at the time of her death. It is strange that her family members for whom she had done so much were avoiding even her dead body and now she was completely dependent on the hospital staff and ambulance driver, who were perfectly strangers to her to lay her down to rest.

 

Infected Relations Author: Dr. K.S. Kang

 

Infected Relations

Author: Dr. K.S. Kang

Corona had not only infected the body but even the thinking, mind and relations too. Harish was a scribe concerned with the local section of a national newspaper. As over the years he had become a sort of whistle blower in the town, so most of the official were afraid of him and tried to avoid him. Though they respected him but this respect was out of fear rather than affection. Rather it was to appease his destructive and nuisance value. It was Harish’s job to go to number of places in town including hospital, clinics and even covid care centres to get the events and happenings for his newspaper as a result of it he was infected by this deadly virus one day. At first he did not pay much attention to it taking it to be common cough and cold which will go with time but when the symptoms persisted he gave his sample for RTPCR test and was confirmed positive. The same day the vehicle of Medical and Health Department stopped in front of his house and out of it came three or four people who could not be recognized easily as they were wearing PPE kits, masks and gloves. They took him and immediately put him on oxygen. Where Harish was admitted was the same place that he had visited frequently earlier also and perhaps he got infection from this place during his last visit a few days ago. Before coming to hospital Harish was leading a perfectly normal life of a middle class man with his wife and two children- one son and one daughter.

Suddenly in the middle of that fateful night oxygen supply was disrupted and Harish was unable to breath on his own and he collapsed in the early hours of the morning. His wife and children were afraid to go near him for the fear of getting themselves infected though they had tried to avoid him the moment he tested positive and was admitted to hospital. It was a strange situation in which a person’s life partner and his kids, who were his own blood and flesh were afraid to go near him. His body was lying wrapped in the plastic bag unattended in the verandah of the hospital.

Kansa Ram was posted to this town as City Magistrate a few months ago. His modus operandi was that he used to visit some government office early in the morning suddenly the moment it opened without any prior information or notice. His predecessor while giving him charge and warned him of journalists like Harish who may tarnish his image out of selfish and petty motive. That day Kansa Ram decided to visit the hospital where Harish’s body was lying unattended. He took his friend Sub-Inspector Nikhil Chand with him. When he saw the body of Harish lying unattended in the verandah of the hospital he enquired about it. Hospital authorities informed him that hospital was ready to hand over the body for funeral but his own children and wife were shirking to come near him and carry his body to the waiting ambulance. For some time Kansa Ram looked at the lady and two children standing at the door of the hospital. Then he looked towards Nikhil Chand and ordered hospital authorities to bring masks, PPE Kits and gloves at once. Donning PPE Kits and masks both Kansa Ram and Nikhil Chand carried the body to the waiting ambulance and asked the lady and children at the entrance of the hospital to reach the funeral ground and leaving their official vehicle at the hospital they came into ambulance in order to supervise that the body of Harish is disposed off in a proper and dignified manner strictly according to the Covid guidelines while his wife and children were watching the proceedings from the gate of the funeral ground.

Land, Water and Air Lords Author : Dr. K.S. Kang

 

Land,Water and Air Lords

Author: Dr. K.S. Kang

An owner of land even a small plot of land is considered a man of substance as he enjoys financial and economic security throughout the life. Such a person is often more sought after in matrimonial alliance, as it assured that his family will not starve come what may. A land owner at least promised a decent standard of life to the family member that was to leave their family and join his family after the wedding. Besides a land owner enjoyed respectable status at least in Indian society.

Over the years man’s destructive activities like deforestation, digging of wells in order to exploit under ground water led to the conditions of draught and famine that caused the shortage of water and food. People started paying more attention to water as even a land lord having acres of land can grow nothing without the proper supply of water. Rising population with time also made this problem more grave and people started recognising the importance of water. Change in life style also led to the increase in consumption of water. Earlier the acqa needs of a man were limited and confined but with the growing use of coolers, WC toilets and the like has increased the water needs of a human being manifold. In good old days water needs of an average family were easily met by the water connection provided by Public Health Engineering Department of the government. Then people started digging tube wells in their houses while other built tanks inside and outside their house to store water for the Summers during which this problem became more acute. People even constructed large tanks with the capacity of 10000 litres inside their houses. Some even started putting booster pumps directly in the pipe line to quench their water needs. Mostly common middle class man had to rely on private water tanker service that gave rise to Water Mafia that minted money during the crisis particularly during the summers when the water was in great demand and supply scanty. One person succeeded in winning the local elections successfully as he satisfied water needs of his voters for nearly five years free of cost by sending his tanker to anyone who needed it in his constituency. People even saw the water storing capacity of a family before finalising the matrimonial alliance of their daughter.

With time human civilisation faced one of its worst crisis in its history in the form of Corona, which was a highly contagious disease that attacks and weakens the lungs. Once the virus enters the body it is nearly possible to get a cure and person dies of suffocation in absence of proper amount of oxygen. Now clean air or oxygen became man’s needs to survive. Even the persons of great stature and substance could not survive the sudden disruption of supply of oxygen at a critical juncture. Suddenly Oxygen mafia cropped up in the country who wanted to mint money by exploiting the needs of the man. Even hospital admitted patients on this condition that they will have to arrange for their own oxygen cylinders. This mafia sold not only cylinders at high price but even after shelling the asked amount people were not getting fully filled oxygen cylinders on the other. A person even after paying the asked amount discovers to his horror that the cylinder that he gets is either half filled or empty and it stops supplying oxygen and the patient dies before reaching the hospital.

But as light and darkness co-exist in the world simultaneously. In the above paragraphs I have given dark picture of the situation in which certain greedy in human brutes were making money by black marketing not only oxygen cylinders but also essential medicines and equipment while on the other hand people in Gurudwara are not only providing masks, PPE kits and gloves at a subsidized prices long with free food to the needy and the epitome of humanity came in Gurudwara at Indirapuram where Gurudwara has arranged the supply of Oxygen to the needy patients free of cost. Here people gathered in large numbers as volunteers despite the dangers and risks involved known to help and serve the suffering humanity.

In the end light will prevail over darkness

Hope goodness will eradicate evil.

Long live humanity,

May everybody prosper.

On Sixtieth Birthday Author: Dr. K.S.Kang

 

On Sixtieth Birthday

Author: Dr. K.S. Kang

It has been a question of an endless debate since time immemorial whether birthday should be celebrated or not. Some say that it is an occasion signifying the end of one more year of your life and you have moved close to our death. So there is hardly anything to celebrate, particularly after you have crossed the meridian of 60 years of age when there is nothing to look forward to except the old age with all its horrors, deformities and weakness ready to engulf you before sending you to the penultimate end. However, in Indian psyche and way of life, where even death is celebrated, though in a solemn way, to mark the occasion with appreciation that man has completed the journey of life successfully that is no mean achievement. As far as possible a person should embrace the element of positivity in life, as positivity is nearer light and divinity. A person should see his birthday as an occasion that he has covered another year of his life successfully, hence the occasion for celebration. Then this occasion gives the opportunity to know about your friends and well wishers who greet you with the choicest wishes on your birthday. This boosts your morale and gives you courage to move forward in life warding off the darkness of depression and disease with the light of fresh and positive energy that your derive from the wishes of friends and well wishers. A person should try to be positive till the last moment of his life in a ‘die hard spirit’ which will help in facing even death with the halo of positivity that protects you from horrors and images of death to some extent which are more horrible than the death itself. Positivity has become more relevant in the present moment of global crisis as it gives courage to move forward, forget the past and embrace life and future with new hope. So when you are fortunate to get human life then the celebration should continue till the last moment of life as it shows your gratitude to your creator whom you remember on this occasion for the human life that He has given to you and His endless praise. On this occasion I recollect following lines

Count your life

By Smiles, nor Tears,

Count your Age, by Friends

Not Years.