A woman in flaming orange dress walking by .... A man idling on a bench, just like me - is he also killing time, waiting for some obnoxious officer who might or might not be genuinely busy, or is he also a product of a system which is rotten to the core ? The frightening part is not that the system is populated by those who dont want to work, but the fact that there is no motivation for those who want to, who see the need for bringing about a change, not for personal laurels or anything, but for the simple reason that whatever is happening aint right.

And therein, lies the crux of the problem. Its not that the definition of right or wrong has changed a lot over the 60 odd years we have been independent. True, the lines might have displaced a little to one side, but thats not catastrophical. The horrifying fact is that we have become indifferent. All we do is shrug. Shrug when someone refuses to do his/her duty, shrug when someone overextends to do his/her duty. The absence of a transparent and sufficient reward/punishment system leads to unacknowledgement of virtues and vices. And indifference is highly contagious, because it spreads not from air or water or any other tangible medium. It spreads through jealousy and insecurity, medium there are no defences against .... and never will be.

When you love or hate, you have a reason to thing in a particular way, a reason to act, a reason to live. When you are indifferent, you just exist.

So do all of us.