Few days ago, on my way to office, I was in a bus that stood at the bus stand. I saw a few people peeping their heads out of the bus to see someone. I also heard the sound of someone being beaten by a big stick. I too tried to see what was happening. A policemen bet an old lady with his lathi stick for the reason (crime) of begging. The old lady should have had atleast the age of his mom or even more than that. This is how old people are respected in our country. I do not know what made that policemen to beat her. She tried to move to the other side of the bus despite getting lathi beats. She was rubbing her hand as she moved off. I do not encourage people who are begging, at the same time, I feel that we should try to respect people who are elder than us. Though we won't be able to help them everytime, Atleast let us not do any harm to them.
Then the driver in my bus told something funny. Earlier every beggar in that bus stand used to give Rs.60/- to the police for letting them beg. This was found out by some higher police officers and the other sub-police officers were warned. May be this is the person for that policemen to beat that old lady. Aahh.. anyway I do not know the real reason. Whatever it is, I felt bad that day and as the bus started moving on, the incident started fading a little in my mind.
Lets try to help them a little if possible, at the same time lets not hurt anyone like this.