With Tamil Nadu undergoing another experiment with the compulsory wearing of helmet, my thoughts go back to a few years ago when the joke was played. I was taking my mother on a two-wheeler on the Chetput bridge when we saw a youth lying dead, apparently from an accident.
The next day we read in the paper that he had gone to pay the fine that day for not wearing helmet. It shook me.
Of course, I had been wearing helmet seriously for long years to the extent that my hair had started falling turning a patch a bald. When I say this to others they say that at least your head is there!
Thank the helmet!
What we have to in the present context is to make it compulsory for the youth. Because it is they who drive fast and crazy without any regard for others and even themselves. On the highways away from the city it should be made compulsory for all drivers.
The Government would do well to provide helmets free of cost for the poor and needy. When they can give a television for entertainment why not a helmet for the head of the family?
Helmet or Meet Hell! -- this is my contribution as a journalist!
2 comments:
Hair or head! Choose!
Wonder if governments can be so considerate as to give away helmets :). good post!
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