On sunday morning I read this article in 'The Hindu' written by a responsible citizen and it forced me to write my response on my blog.
One can refer the article on the link below:
http://beta.thehindu.com/opinion/open-page/article454103.ece
Dear Madam Nalini L.
I can understand the issue you have been facing due to rash driving of bikers. I can understand the fatal accident of your neighbor (my well wishes to him/her for speedy recovery) and your past experiences that have forced you to write this article which for most part of it looks apt.
However, I don't agree the way you have defamed the bikers. It seems that you have a certain kind of notion in your mind regarding the bikers which got accentuated by your neighbor’s accident and the same is being propounded through this article without keeping any check on your personal grudges against the bikers.
I'm driving bike for at least a decade and for your information I have not been involved in any road accident so far (which I should not boast of). I never overtake any vehicle from left and I do understand the difference between those lines mentioned in your article and above all I learned riding bike with the help of my father (as he could not afford paying the fees). All the things that you have mentioned as regular trait of any biker don’t apply on me and for the matter of fact on many other bikers also.
I can give you the name of hundreds of bikers who follow the traffic rules and thousands of car owner/drivers who don't. If one starts collecting the data one will find more number of cars involved in mowing down pedestrians than the bikers but I don't want to make a case out of it because an offender is an offender doesn't matter he is on bike or in car. At one place you have pointed out that bikers even don't stop to help the victim of their rash driving as if you are well assured that all the car drivers stop to help the victim and take them to the hospital. With due respect I would like to inform you that there are hundreds of cases when the car drivers fled from the spot, I don't want to comment on those who stopped to help the victim because I still couldn't figure out whether they stopped to genuinely help the victim or just because they can't maneuver their car out of the spot because of its size or something else (I accept there are many who stop genuinely).
I could have accepted and respected your article from the bottom of my heart had you put forward your case against the offenders instead of making it against the bikers. I expect someday someone will notice a bike rider wearing shorts and getting involved in an accident and someone like you will make his/her observation that the riders wearing shorts are the one who always overtake from left, doesn't know the difference between those lines and the one should be blamed for all the accidents.
I hope I have put forward my point abundantly clear i.e. please don't paint everyone with a thick brush.
One can refer the article on the link below:
http://beta.thehindu.com/opinion/open-page/article454103.ece
Dear Madam Nalini L.
I can understand the issue you have been facing due to rash driving of bikers. I can understand the fatal accident of your neighbor (my well wishes to him/her for speedy recovery) and your past experiences that have forced you to write this article which for most part of it looks apt.
However, I don't agree the way you have defamed the bikers. It seems that you have a certain kind of notion in your mind regarding the bikers which got accentuated by your neighbor’s accident and the same is being propounded through this article without keeping any check on your personal grudges against the bikers.
I'm driving bike for at least a decade and for your information I have not been involved in any road accident so far (which I should not boast of). I never overtake any vehicle from left and I do understand the difference between those lines mentioned in your article and above all I learned riding bike with the help of my father (as he could not afford paying the fees). All the things that you have mentioned as regular trait of any biker don’t apply on me and for the matter of fact on many other bikers also.
I can give you the name of hundreds of bikers who follow the traffic rules and thousands of car owner/drivers who don't. If one starts collecting the data one will find more number of cars involved in mowing down pedestrians than the bikers but I don't want to make a case out of it because an offender is an offender doesn't matter he is on bike or in car. At one place you have pointed out that bikers even don't stop to help the victim of their rash driving as if you are well assured that all the car drivers stop to help the victim and take them to the hospital. With due respect I would like to inform you that there are hundreds of cases when the car drivers fled from the spot, I don't want to comment on those who stopped to help the victim because I still couldn't figure out whether they stopped to genuinely help the victim or just because they can't maneuver their car out of the spot because of its size or something else (I accept there are many who stop genuinely).
I could have accepted and respected your article from the bottom of my heart had you put forward your case against the offenders instead of making it against the bikers. I expect someday someone will notice a bike rider wearing shorts and getting involved in an accident and someone like you will make his/her observation that the riders wearing shorts are the one who always overtake from left, doesn't know the difference between those lines and the one should be blamed for all the accidents.
I hope I have put forward my point abundantly clear i.e. please don't paint everyone with a thick brush.
Abhishek Rai
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