The Real Public of Our City

It was 8.30pm in the evening Ayesha was waiting for a bus to reach her home.  It was the most crowded bus stop she had ever seen. She never used to travel by a city bus but that day she decided to travel. That bus stop was located near the signal from where vehicles were rushing like an air.

When she looked at signal it was turned red, her glare was fixed on the timer screen and she was contemplating about the college girls and the working women who daily travel by city buses. Signal was turned orange. As soon as it transformed in to a green color vehicle’s started rushing. Suddenly her glare went on the girl who was crossing the road.  When she was at the middle of the road signal was turned green.  She got confused as she was neither able to move back nor able to cross the road. Suddenly one auto driver hit her, she fallen down on the road vehicles started to count their destination by making the way from her side but nobody stopped to help her out of that tragic mess. Ayesha looked around and rushed towards her as soon as she rushed the girl who was standing near her rushed behind her.  When they reached near the victim she was crying so badly with the pain as well as she was damn scared. As soon as Ayesha touched her hand to get her up, somebody touched her shoulders when she turned back two unknown guys were standing behind her.  Two more bikes covered them and one of the guys told her to carry the victim’s thing and he lifted that girl in his hands like a small kid two of his companions followed them and they crossed the road. Blood was flowing from the victim’s knee.

Ayesha took out her scarf and wrapped it around the victim’s knee to stop the blood flow. They served her two sips of water and without asking her about her name and family decided to take her to the nearest hospital. Now people gathered around them.  One of their companions followed the auto driver and caught him. When auto driver arrived group of the people said that auto driver should take the victim to the hospital and he should pay the hospital bill as a penalty.

 Auto driver started arguing with them one of their companions went to the traffic police and explained the scene. When the traffic police learned the scenario he told his two colleagues to follow him. As soon as auto driver saw the policemen he himself rushed towards them and discussed something in Marathi language. Policemen allowed auto driver to make a move.

While seeing it six of them got surprised. She was the only girl between six of them who knew Marathi. The companion who was the witness for the discussion between auto driver and policemen was unaware of Marathi language so he didn’t understand the fact.

Policemen came towards the crowd and one of the policeman told that they should call the victims family members. Listening to him Ayesha asked him about the auto driver then one of them said proudly “today some VIP member is going to visit the city for some mall opening event so we are busy with our work and we can’t pay the attention to this matter.”

 She was just about to say something but the guy standing behind her read her mind and he squeezed her shoulder to stop her words. So while looking at him she moved back and kept quite. Then they took the victim to the nearest hospital and informed her family members about her hospitalization.

Within next 15minutes her family members arrived in the hospital and the most surprising thing came to the flash. Victim was a daughter of one of the Police officer. When he learned the horrible scene happened with his daughter his face turned red, he called one of the RTO head.

 It was around 10.00pm so Ayesha and her companions decided to vacate the place as victim was safely handed over to her family members. Now her five companions were became her friends. They were the five different people from three different states with three different languages. They were new to this city and unaware of our city language although when there was a bad time they rushed to help that stranger victim but the people from our city were just watching the scene silently.