The end of an innings with obvious queries

“GANESH” is still vivid in our memory. Yes I am talking of self-forgetful “GANESH”. He was completely indifferent by his queer character. He was always less concerned with the happenings around him. He was beyond doubt nomadic and was always governed by his own whims. Ups and downs in a life stand imposter to him. We used to try to make him understand in his movements and characteristics. But he was ever unreachable to us. He was always less spoken and hardly had any intention to interact with anyone in particular on any specific issue. Sometimes we were under the impression that life came to him with all insignificance. He had no exposure of feelings, emotion and sentiment as such. “GANESH” was never understandable to us, yet he used to draw our attention with inquisitiveness. Sometimes I personally tried to set up a psychological communication with one way talking. But his reluctance did not allow me to proceed further. Yet we used to spin round his peculiar character for his occasional shout aloud: - “This earth will ruin. Save it if you can.” After that he had a straight walking along the road. Where did he go, none had any knowledge of his destination because “GANESH” had never compromised with specific destination. He had always an intimacy with roads going to different direction.

“GANESH” was not all along of this category. Uneasiness in his mental set up was never questioned when he was tender in age. Once he had a very happy family with his parents and elder sister. After being married his sister was mentally and physically abused for the dowry not being paid as demanded from the in-law’s house and resultantly she had the best option to commit suicide. It was the cause of his mental set up being completely shattered. He used to weep like a child after the bereavement of his sister. He failed to accommodate the brutality of human being. Gradually he became restless and it led him to mental instability. He could never be called mentally retarded, but he was definitely eccentric and this typical eccentricity is the cause of his total indifference. Step by step known “GANESH” became unknown to us with counterfeit identity.

Morning came as usually that day. A thick crowd was found before the tea stall. They looked very tensed and exited. They were discussing something in great anxiety. I could not resist my temptation to go ahead close to the tea stall and to my utter surprise I heard that “GANESH” had been brutally murdered last night with multi wounds of stabbing. His body was found lying in a pool of blood at a desolate place near the grave yard at a distance apart from our locality. I was struck with dumb. What is the cause behind the murder? Who murdered him? Indifferent and self-forgetful “GANESH” had been murdered! He had never been an element of showing protest on any issue. Literary speaking, he was a casual bystander. After the premature expiry of his sister he had no charm in life and spirit of life was a bygone conclusion to him. Yet he had to be murdered in total strangeness.

Cases of murder are not an unusual phenomenon now. It is becoming the usual practice of the day. It is now the age of criminals and miscreants. Society has become turned the happy kingdom of them. They are on the prowl in the roads nonchalantly with all their antisocial activities keeping on. Peace monger people are afraid of them because they can move up to ultimate exposition of brutality in case their interest is least challenged. They want to have an encroachment of all the roads. Common people are becoming afraid of them because they maintain an evil and vicious nexus with corrupt political leaders and administration too. So they are in don’t care mood. Are local goons responsible for this murder or anything unknown? Suspicious discussions were going on because everyone was concerned with his death.

The mystery of the murder of “GANESH” is still unexposed. The resonance of death existed for some time. After that it is a bygone conclusion. This is natural. A running life does not allow any episode to have a hangover for an indefinite period. Moreover, “GANESH” was not a celebrity one. Naturally let his death remain aside in absolute insignificance. To commemorate his memory does never fetch any accountability. Deaths like of “GANESH” hardly leave any mark in our mind. People like “GANESH” live with an identity of unknown in the midst of known circle. They are always discarded by the society as a man of no worth.

Gossips may run on unnaturalness of the murder of “GANESH”. They are basically cooked up stories with no reality at all. I am averse to be a member of this gossip club. I am always earnest to learn the truth behind any cause because I am obliged to that truth, always the photocopy of the fact with no tampering. What I personally feel that “GANESH” tried to walk on that road which is not for general. That road represents humanity and human understanding. In the world of consumerism those who want to remain alive holding morality and human understanding are called literate fool because this world teaches to protect own interest at the cost of other’s interest. Sometimes they are also called insane or mentally challenged. The death of “GANESH” is metaphoric. People like “GANESH” with latent burning of fire inside can never die with an attack of immoral. Perhaps they recoil themselves temporarily to gain more strength for an outright sudden counter attack. The metaphorical death of “GANESH” is sure to strike our conscience for a new beginning of fight for a come back into the main stream of life.