As you are passing through this passage, you will come to know that the surprise is from the west and it is worth mentioning as it has happened through the net.
The other day when I was browsing through the net I went into a link of Citizen Commission on Human Rights of United States of America (www.cchr.org). Many accidental unexpected searches will end up in some good findings. At times we start to search for something and end up finding something else of irrelevant things which we feel equally happy about it.
One horrifying dull image welcomed me into the site and the pop up icon appeared got my attention, and which reads like this “Avail free CD of Making a Killing: The Untold Story of Psychotropic Drugging.
It was an award winning documentary film .As being a Pharmacist myself and my grandma is taking such medications, fully aware of the consequences she faces due to those psychotropic drugs ,I was curious to get the CD and know more(Only because it is free!). Anticipating for nothing, keeping in mind that I may or may not get it. I filled in the application with my postal address and mail id. I did not have any expectation that the CD should come to me as it has to come from US and of free of cost. My conventional Indian mind set peeped and said, just things won’t happen that easy with a simple request…what can happen with a single mail…or a single word said or unsaid…pessimistic way of looking into everything!
Even big processions, protests and human cry may not get a bit of attention here...when the population is about 120 crore …who cares if a 200 died of swine flu and a 50 died of a boat mishap or the flood took hundreds of souls year after year and the road accidents take lives every day.
No one seems to care or dare to ask a question. No one feels comfortable to ask right questions .Fear of lose is overpowered the pleasures of gain…anguish all the way…
Almost 10 days latter I was pleasantly surprised to get the CD in good condition, packed with care and elegance, personally addressed to me with a covering letter thanking my interest and encouraging me to introduce the same to my friends and requesting me to write for more number of copies if I would like to distribute myself.
The film is worth watching and better to be informed about the other side of the drugs, the side effects ….and how marketing drive the approval and sale of such drugs…even in the country where the regulations are stringent…..
Salute to the US way of educating common people…and Indian way of ignoring common interests and playing the world renowned game the Blame Game!
Arther.C
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