There is so much love in the air...(part three)

But this is not what I intended to tell you. All these matters are related to maintenance and upkeep and the authorities are supposed to do the needful (as we keep pinning all our hopes on them). I wanted to tell you something with which we are related directly. How many times did we curse government not to oblige its duty properly or perfectly? Moreover, exactly how many times did we look into ourselves, try to identify our responsibilities? This is a question we often want to escape. However, this is the time to face it. Are we losing our civic sense, or are we making a mockery of Democracy? What I saw inside "Jantar-Mantar" tells me that we Indians have no respect for our national monuments and we do not bother about maintaining the sanctity of the place as old as Jantar-Mantar which holds historical as well as scientific significance. All this just because we are the citizens of a Democratic country. Does that mean we can do anything we like? Democracy bestows to an individual many rights and a great amount of freedom. One thing leads to another. We often mistake freedom as a liberty to go overboard doing things, and in the end, we mar the spirit of freedom. I saw not one, not two but at least a dozen of love birds lying behind the trees, on the stairs in the structures, inside the portals and almost every place where they could find a space to hide and romance. This shameless demonstration of romance leaves the visitors uncomfortable, particularly one who visits with the families. These young couples, disregarding the stares of the people, continue to exhibit the proceedings of their warm and tender love. Not only this, but some of the over enthusiastic couples scratch their love stories with their initials on the historical structure. Now we can find more "Hearts, pierced with arrows" scratched on the structure than the scales, which were engraved to calculate astronomical calculations.

continued in one more post...