For us,lips of wisdom, the real precious jewels

When we entered our school building in Pune, from the main door, the first room was a circular lobby. In this lobby, right in front of the main door, bass relief statues of our school founders, fixed in the wall, would be seen. On the left of these bass reliefs, there used to be a big notice board. I also remember few sign boards hung on the wall, somewhere in this arrangements. These nicely polished wooden sign boards, used to have in engraved letters, writings and sayings of the famous saints and poets of Maharashtra. I do not clearly remember now, what were these sayings? However I do recollect one sign board which said that "Talk without corresponding action, is worthless." Unfortunately, no one ever paid any attention to any of these sign boards, even though we used to see them at least couple of times each day. I never felt that there was anything of substance to be learned from these sayings.

However, I keep on remembering this particular sign board, these days very often. During course of last year (2011), Punaites or citizens of city of Pune, had only one subject in their mind. Subjects such as presence of garbage heaps on the streets, water supply irregularities, crowded streets, squalor and dirt, were all forgotten. All the so called local leaders, were trying to join the din and noise by expressing their opinions on this subject rather vehemently. There were citizens forums discussing the topic. The common subject of all this heated discussions,  was the Metro train for Pune. There were questions and questions. Should we have the metro? Should it be elevated or underground? Where should  the stations be located? etc. etc. Finally, ordinary Puneite even hoped that the Metro train may actually run in Pune one day and would provide some relief to the harassed commuter. After a considerable debate, local Municipal corporation approved the plan. However, more than an year has passed since then. It now appears that bureaucracy has probably swallowed up the project file as there is no talk, no action by anyone on the subject. If we now ask a Puneite about the Metro, he is surely going to react with a counter question, What Metro?.