I returned from Varanasi on 13th, which rallied behind our future Prime Minister. While people of Varanasi have given a smooth road to success for the 15th Prime Minister of India, it is truly a bumpy road for those who trudge everyday in those lanes and by-lanes of this holy city.
A gynecologist relative of mine in Varanasi spoke about the hazards of reaching a pregnant woman to the hospital without risking an untimely abortion. The potholed roads, unfinished bridges, bamboo poles for power lines, broken water pipes, dilapidated buildings, smell of roadside feces.... well, the city where the dead are cremated is a direct hell for those who live there. In all the years of our independence, it does not appear that anyone truly governed and developed this city.
If anyone wants to describe Varanasi in just two words - it is our capital of faith and filth. Millions of Indians descend on the city to bathe in the holiest of our rivers and pray in one of the holiest of our temples. They spend a lifetime planning for this pilgrimage and parade the streets in the intoxication of immense faith. That is one aspect of Varanasi. On the other hand, filth too parades the streets, the river and every open space of this holy city and the sights and smell appall you all the while. By far, it is one of the most filthy cities of India that I have known.
The cities of faith the world over - Vatican, Mecca, Karbala, Mashaad, Jerusalem, Bodh Gaya are all incomparably cleaner to Varanasi. Our own Somnath, Mathura, Amritsar, Ajmer are far more cleaner and receptive to pilgrims than this high symbol of Hinduism. With its metaphysical image of faith and physical image of filth, Varanasi is an injustice to the nation delivered by the successive Governments of UP.
It appears that this city of faith waited to repose faith in the future Prime Minister of this country, to deliver it from filth to modernity.
V K SAXENA
PRESIDENT
National Council for Civil Liberties, Ahmedabad -
PRESIDENT
National Council for Civil Liberties, Ahmedabad -
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