Crash

It was one of those days when darkness dominated the moon light.There was something vicious about the air, the devilish air.One could sense the approaching chaos with that colossal momentum.There was silence all around, awaiting the inception.

Rajeev came back home from work.His parents awaited him for dinner.They all sat together in the dinning room discussing the all day events in every one's life, criticizing the government officials,mocking the zillion scams that surfaced lately, praising Sachin for his gigantic achievement, expressing disgust for Television shows like 'Rakhi ka Insaaf','Big Switch' and blah blah. Rajeev's dad, was a retired teacher.Ironically the everyday moderator to their discussions was very quite today.Rajeev noticed the irrational silence."What's the matter dad? You all right?", he asked. His dad just nodded in affirmation.But his face gave away everything.That something was bothering him from inside, that something was happening to him and that he could sense what was going to happen.Rajeev soon got the answer.His dad complained of acute chest pain and his left hand suddenly was immobile.All signs of a cardiac arrest.He panicked,asked her mother to hold him, called for an ambulance.

The time when the ambulance arrived it was already 15 long minutes gone.They shifted him into the ambulance .Rajeev was furious by the delay caused and shouted at them with an intensity that will convinced them that his blood had reached the boiling temperature.But the ward boy and nurse were used to such reactions from the kins of the patient and casually said,"Itna traffic hota hai Sir, hum kya karega ?".By this time, his dad was almost unconscious. The nurse suggested to hurry to the hospital otherwise this would go really ugly.They left the house. Rajeev was holding his mother who could not control herself and broke down."It will be all right mother, keep faith".He was really being strong at this. But somewhere deep down he feared that no one was there to back him.He asked his close friends and relatives to reach hospital directly.Every second stretched to a thousand miles and all he could hear was the dying heart beat of his father. He held his father's hand.He had hope.He was not crying.

They stopped at a huge crossroads where on a normal day you would require a minimum of 10 minutes.But then he quickly realized that this was an ambulance and they had the right to breach through.But when he looked outside, there wasn't any space.There were millions of vehicles ahead of them. The road was jam-packed and there was no scope of movement.He looked at his dad and sensed that there wasn't enough time.He got out of the ambulance."i beg you to make way, my father is dying..", he shouted out loud to every vehicle in front of the ambulance.His voice getting thicker and weaker.His desperate moves inspired a couple of people to move. But even if people wanted, they had no space to move.It was all messed up.His heart felt heavy, for the first time he had tears in his eyes.And they were blood red.He didn't give up, and somehow the ambulance reached the front where they were eventually made to halt by the traffic police.

"We cannot allow any vehicle through, the PM's convoy is on a move!", the traffic policeman said pushing Rajeev away.

"I have a dying father in that ambulance and I need to take him to the hospital right now and I don't fucking care if some damn minister is taking his family on a joy ride to attend some rich ass hole's daughter's wedding ! We are going through, you have no right over a person's life and neither does the PM!"

"I am afraid we will have to arrest you in that case ...", a senior policeman shouted.

"Fuck You!".

Rajeev signaled the ambulance to go through. But they were too many of them to stop the ambulance.Rajeev's mother came out to stop him fighting with the officials. Rajeev asked his mother to sit beside his father and not to come out.A couple of other poeple joined him is his protest.It turned out there was another ambulance way behind which had a pregnant woman with complications.And couple of people were on their way to the airport who would surely miss their flight now.Finally after 20 minutes of drama and chaos the PM passed by and the traffic was let loose.Rajeev was quite now.He eyes were red and swollen.His was angry and there was no way to vent out the same.They reached the hospital where his father was declared dead.

"You should have hurried. A couple of minutes matter a lot in such cases.We are sorry for your loss!", said the doctors.His mother completely broke down.His relatives where there to console her.Rajeev was shattered.He fell on his knees.Not saying anything.His eyes, overwhelmed with tears of bias,of unfairness, of feeling violated and exploited for being a commoner.He stood there helpless,crying and crashed.