Colorblindness, as the name suggests, is the inability to differentiate between colors. Conventionally, a color blind person cannot see the colors that a normal person can see and hence, at the maximum, can recognize colors only on the basis of darkness. Now, the implications of being a color blind person - you may be asked to leave a job, you may have low preference in other professional affairs and innumerable personal issues which can go along in one's day-to-day life with both trivial and significant consequences which may turn your way or the way opposite to you. But in most of the situations, you are the sufferer if you are color blind because almost the entire world except you is not color blind.
But, to my surprise, people in the city I live in, feel proud to prove themselves color blind. And guess how do they do that? Openly, publically in front of all, taking pride in declaring through their actions that they are amongst the color blinds. And as a matter of fact, most of the citizens in the city are color blind.
Differentiating between red and green must not be a big deal for most of us. But for the residents of Pune who either think it as a job of triviality high enough to ignore it or a task of extreme hardship to feel incapable of doing it. Here, I do not restrict myself to people who are less educated or the lower middles class of society. The scope of my discussion extends from lower class to the most affluent class of the society.
Traffic signals, I suppose, were conceptualized to avoid the pandemonium that would have occurred on roads without them. To ensure that traffic rules are being followed, a separate group of government employees are deputed for the same namely the Traffic Police. But visit the roads of Pune once and you would find nothing more than a chaotic road network where inspite of all the enablers for orderly movement of vehicles, there is rampant breaching of the civil code of conduct on roads. You never know when and from where does a two-wheeler may appear despite the red signal in front of him. Don’t be surprised while driving when you see people violating lane norms and don’t stop and start shouting on them if they turn to your right without giving a slightest of indication of that. And if you do shout, believe me you are at loss because you are the odd one out. The other day, I was stunned to see a Hyundai Accent banging on the back of a Kinetic Honda waiting for the red signal to get green. Such incidents are not uncommon in Pune and to make the matter worse, the so called traffic police do nothing to avoid all this chaos except dumbly standing in one corner witnessing the incidents. In Pune, all are free to move anywhere on the road without the fear of being caught by the traffic police. Complete anarchy is what people of Pune like to observe. Mightier, by the size of the vehicle he drives, gets the privilege to utilize the road to his whims and fancies whenever he wants.
What is most disheartening is that Pune is a place where one can find educated people from all over India. They are, supposedly, aware of their civic duties and are competent enough to judge what’s wrong and what’s right. Utter negligence on their part towards this indispensable part of our daily life is truly not acceptable by any logic. Being the wiser strata of society, they should be the one to set examples for others to follow. They should be the one who must make others understand that rules and regulations are for everybody’s convenience. But when I see vehicles of so called educated and civilized citizens of the society such as school buses, police vans, luxurious four wheelers of CEOs and CFOs and numerous other automobiles, ruthlessly making mockery of the traffic norms, I can’t resist myself to quote them as a perfect example of “color blind morons”.
But, to my surprise, people in the city I live in, feel proud to prove themselves color blind. And guess how do they do that? Openly, publically in front of all, taking pride in declaring through their actions that they are amongst the color blinds. And as a matter of fact, most of the citizens in the city are color blind.
Differentiating between red and green must not be a big deal for most of us. But for the residents of Pune who either think it as a job of triviality high enough to ignore it or a task of extreme hardship to feel incapable of doing it. Here, I do not restrict myself to people who are less educated or the lower middles class of society. The scope of my discussion extends from lower class to the most affluent class of the society.
Traffic signals, I suppose, were conceptualized to avoid the pandemonium that would have occurred on roads without them. To ensure that traffic rules are being followed, a separate group of government employees are deputed for the same namely the Traffic Police. But visit the roads of Pune once and you would find nothing more than a chaotic road network where inspite of all the enablers for orderly movement of vehicles, there is rampant breaching of the civil code of conduct on roads. You never know when and from where does a two-wheeler may appear despite the red signal in front of him. Don’t be surprised while driving when you see people violating lane norms and don’t stop and start shouting on them if they turn to your right without giving a slightest of indication of that. And if you do shout, believe me you are at loss because you are the odd one out. The other day, I was stunned to see a Hyundai Accent banging on the back of a Kinetic Honda waiting for the red signal to get green. Such incidents are not uncommon in Pune and to make the matter worse, the so called traffic police do nothing to avoid all this chaos except dumbly standing in one corner witnessing the incidents. In Pune, all are free to move anywhere on the road without the fear of being caught by the traffic police. Complete anarchy is what people of Pune like to observe. Mightier, by the size of the vehicle he drives, gets the privilege to utilize the road to his whims and fancies whenever he wants.
What is most disheartening is that Pune is a place where one can find educated people from all over India. They are, supposedly, aware of their civic duties and are competent enough to judge what’s wrong and what’s right. Utter negligence on their part towards this indispensable part of our daily life is truly not acceptable by any logic. Being the wiser strata of society, they should be the one to set examples for others to follow. They should be the one who must make others understand that rules and regulations are for everybody’s convenience. But when I see vehicles of so called educated and civilized citizens of the society such as school buses, police vans, luxurious four wheelers of CEOs and CFOs and numerous other automobiles, ruthlessly making mockery of the traffic norms, I can’t resist myself to quote them as a perfect example of “color blind morons”.
