Some time back the great minds of Pune thought of a Bus Day. The initiative was taken by Sakaal Times. The aim was discarding the private vehicles for a day. Since then, a special supplement was added to the newspaper. All the national and international news were considered inferior however important they may be.The news of 'Sandy' too was somewhere in one corner of the paper. Forget about Rahul or Sonia Gandhi, even Sachin was given the back seat (unless he was commenting on this Bus day).
However, Sakaal readers gained a lot of knowledge regarding pollution and the diseases caused due to air pollution which they might have not got in their entire life span through different experts. The supplement and the first few pages were occupied by the dialogues of all political parties, civic bodies, professionals, police etc supporting the cause which was totally humorous. The pictures appearing on the front pages of different school's staff and students, bank employees, police officers were literally irritating. My friend too was one of them giving that weird pose as if they had achieved something great. May it be people sponsoring 1kg of Basmati rice for the first 100 or 1000 travellers, students getting together and cleaning the buses, various well-known personalities commenting on the same in the form of praises or even the donations given for the so-called 'big day' seems a child's play.
Can a single day bring that change which is needed? Whenever I think of this 'Bus Day' I relate it to my college days when we celebrated Black and White Day, Traditional Day, Rose Day and so on which was great fun. Similarly, are we trying to make this Bus Day an entertaining issue? It probably is......nothing more than that.
Lage Raho Sakaal..... who's next?
However, Sakaal readers gained a lot of knowledge regarding pollution and the diseases caused due to air pollution which they might have not got in their entire life span through different experts. The supplement and the first few pages were occupied by the dialogues of all political parties, civic bodies, professionals, police etc supporting the cause which was totally humorous. The pictures appearing on the front pages of different school's staff and students, bank employees, police officers were literally irritating. My friend too was one of them giving that weird pose as if they had achieved something great. May it be people sponsoring 1kg of Basmati rice for the first 100 or 1000 travellers, students getting together and cleaning the buses, various well-known personalities commenting on the same in the form of praises or even the donations given for the so-called 'big day' seems a child's play.
Can a single day bring that change which is needed? Whenever I think of this 'Bus Day' I relate it to my college days when we celebrated Black and White Day, Traditional Day, Rose Day and so on which was great fun. Similarly, are we trying to make this Bus Day an entertaining issue? It probably is......nothing more than that.
Lage Raho Sakaal..... who's next?
