The End Or Beginning???

The End Or Beginning????

Srikant Kumar is lying in the hall of his house wrapped with white clothes. He is unmoved. He is no more in this world. Only his dead body was brought from the hospital. The body is 80% burned. His wife Sarita Devi and 8 years son are sitting there. His friends and relatives are coming and paying their last respect. Srikant was only 40 years old. The reporters of both print and electronic media are too present there. The police officers were there outside his Ouse. They are waiting for the M L A to come there. The neighbours are making the crowd. Some are whispering, ’why he did this? He is very young. ‘

Srikant Kumar was working in a government office as a temporary employee since last 18 years. He was a poet and written so many good poems. He is basically from Cuttack, but was staying here in Syndergaard since last 3 years. During his 18 years of service, he had been harassed several times. He was jobless for many times. He was very qualified person; he had completed his PG in economics and from a very poor family. He had lost his parents 10 years back, just after his marriage. His first job was at Bhubaneswar and at the joining time was assured to be permanent after 2 years. He was very happy that time. He worked with honesty and sincerity. He was a very good poet and written many poems. Many a time too was felicitated by literary organisations. Writing was his hobby. After two years of his job he had approached senior authorities to make his job permanent, all the time he was only assured. He got married and then approached authorities, M L A, but nothing was changed. Still, he was working as a temporary employee. He was with a consolidated salary . Though he was doing the work of one class -3 employee, but salary was less than a class-4 employee. It was very tough to run his family. Sarita Devi too is a graduate and used to give private tuitions from her house. That was too not enough to meet their bare minimum needs. Srikant was so efficient that for important works he used get transferred from one place to another. All expenses for shifting were been done by him as he was not a permanent employee. Also, he had approached the authorities, political leaders and even unwillingly given money to make his job permanent. Still nothing had happened. He approached the judiciary for this and the case is still going on in court. After the court case all the authorities got upset with him. Several times they made him jobless. Again with his request some good people used to engage him. Everybody know him that he writes good poems. Even some poems were published in leading magazines. His poems are on the theme of present system, corruption and the reality of the society. People appreciate his poems. He had been garlanded many a time for this. Even he approached print and electronics media with all documentary proof of his job status, his request letterers, etc, but none of them come forward to help him. He was having a struggling life. He had taken some hand loans to fight the case in court and was thinking that he will get the justice. That too is getting delayed. He was very emotional person and simple too. The burden of loan, sufferings of his wife and son and the present paralysed system gave him mental torture. He had approached at all level, but failed. This failure and sufferings forced him to make the suicide before M L A’s house by putting petrol on him and making self-emollition. That time the media came, political leaders came, authorities came. All were watching and delayed to get the ambulance to take Srikant to hospital. By the time he reached hospital 80% burn injury had happened. He was in hospital for two days and lastly, he failed in fighting with the life to survive. He was declared dead today morning.

Now all those people who had forced him to take this drastic action are assembled. They are showing their sympathy to a dead body. When he was alive nobody done that. The media is covering to get the coverage and high rating in TRP, that will fetch them good business. The M L A is there to gain sympathy of his voters, showing that he is very sad. The authorities were there to show their sympathy as their well-wisher, but they never thought of his wellness.

Sarita Devi was crying and taking his son in her lap was saying, ‘No it’s not The End, it’s the beginning. I will fight for this. I will fight for the justice from system, from society, from political people, from authorities, from the government and from the judiciary. I will never let another Srikant to suffer. The public and the neighbours were showing the support. But all those culprits slowly started to live the place. They could now understand that this is going to be very big issue. It will be a testing time to see whether it’s The End Or Beginning.