Vuvuzela

The Football world cup is over!! Paul the Octopus has won many hearts!! The Spaniards have emerged champions! The vuvuzelas have created quite a din! And the noise lives on!!

Some celebrities, experts and common people expressed their views about Vuvuzelas. Some said it created a very annoying noise, some said it was fun and some said that it was noise pollution. Vuvuzela, also known as Lepatata, is to football just like how our DJs' famous horn sound is to the IPL Cricket matches.

In my opinion this adds to the energy and excitement on the ground and is over in 90 or 180 minutes. It is good to have this. Somehow, our news carriers have exploited this too and created famous news around this using the comments from different celebrities and people. Now the Vuvuzela is famous and so it should be.

My concern is about the unwelcome 'Vuvuzelas' that are locally available and played at odd times and near your house or on the road, blocking traffic. Iam referring to the 'Marriage bands', the other bands used during festivals, death ceremonies and the music played on loud speakers. Why doesn't anyone speak of this? This is more harmful and we actually have a law in India that bans this from 10pm to 6am and also has set a certain decibel limit.

Where is the press? Where is the media? Where is the police?
In fact most of the bands have police escorts while they break the rules and law.

This is not right, you know it, I know it and we all know it! So what?! So nothing. Why I say this is because, a few months ago I had a procession start near my house at 1am in the morning and the band played loud enough for my heart to pound really hard. I called our police control room, number 100, and there was no response, I called just dial services and took the number to the police station in my area and called. What happened? yes, you guessed it right...the number was engaged...I tried for 30minutes. Then I called the control room again and this time a miracle happened, the phone was answered and the gentleman on the line took my complaint and said that it was booked under noise pollution and that police will come there and take care of it. For the next 45minutes I went through this extreme noise with no relief. Don't know if the police arrived, anyway, it did not help.

So just when you think this is where it ended, the procession came back after 2 hours and played loud enough for the entire area to wake up and for heart patients to have seizure. Iam amused how this was done exactly during the ban hours. Also, it does not take a phone call for the police to reach, the band was loud enough even to disturb the policeman's sleep!! Hahaha!

Someone is getting married and a procession is on the road, blocking traffic for hours. Is this the idea of celebration? The groom gets cursed many a time even before he gets married. What stupidity is this? I travel 2 hours from work to home and get caught in these kinda things. Festival time, 6am, the music on the loud speaker at the street corner starts and worse still is that not many of the songs are religious and it would need god to do the famous 'Teen mar'/street dance to this music. We are living in hell and tolerating such nonsense only because we have nowhere to go.

Numerous incidents, day after day, common people put to pain, no place for the ambulance to rush, no place for the people to walk, can't rest at home, can't reach home etc etc. We live with this but make a noise about Vuvuzela that we heard on TV with volume control?! I think we need to blow the Vuvzelas till the law keepers take action. Anyway this is like a game and we might as well cheer our law makers and law keepers!! Paul the octopus what is your prediction?? Even with 8 arms I don't think you can choose the right option...there are just too many!! :)