Friends
Last week has seen lot of actions and happenings. Gujarat celebrates Uttarayan (Makar Sakranti) in a big way. The festival is of two days called "uttarayn and Baasi Uttarayan". Another big festival during this time is "Vibrant Gujarat" which is a global business summit of 2 days. This is a mega business event organised by Gujarat Government every alternate year. This event witnesses the presence of many leading industrialists of the country, foreign delegates, other businessman and politicians. This event was mainly on 12th & 13th Jan. In fact there is an exhibition also in the summit and we were the one of the exhibitor in this. The exhibition had started from 10th jan and continued till the weekend. Hence from 12th Jan to 15th Jan it was full of activities but no presence in office.

Yesterday I had to go to Sirohi, Rajasthan to attend funeral of one of my relative who expired at young age due to cancer. Cancer is a disease which enters the body randomly and comes out only when burnt fully with body. It does not allow it self to be thrown out so far. Millions of lives every year are galloped by this dreaded disease. People come to the funeral in much more numbers than those who visit the patient or help the family of the patient. It does not help in any way to the patient. I fail to understand why people do not visit the patient when he/she is struggling with life to at least console the patient and family. At cremation ground often people sit in separate clusters and wait for the fire to completely take the dead body in her arms. During this time the talks of the people, subject matter and topics are really embarrassing and pathetic. Totally irrelevant to the occasion. Now a days, Mobile is one more tool which worsens the situation. Either sitting near the body in the house of the deceased or while carrying it to cremation or during the cremation, people use it so frequently that it looks as if they are forcibly called here and have no sympathy with the family of the deceased. The mobile phone ring tones keep ringing in different modes, sounding romantic music, people roam around to talk on the phones, as if the world is going to fall if they don't handle the phone at this moment. On one side the family is crying and other side people are busy in phones and expressing their ring tones. I believe they just come to show the family that they care but fact is that they come to register their presence only. The body language clearly speaks of their unwillingness to be here but due to social compulsions they have to come. People should be serious and help the family to console in such a condition. Phones should be kept on silent mode and the talks for that one hour at least should be some thing serious or no talks if you dont have topic for that. We take the dead to the cremation ground but never imagine that one day some one would bring us also here. If we can not behave properly, we should not expect from others. The kids of the dead are worst sufferer and their future gets totally spoiled. Only God can help and bless such families.
CP