The choice is yours

When I went to the hospital, I found this young girl lying unconscious, with no external injuries at all. By then the neuro surgeon had also reached there. This girl had a very bad head injury and nothing much could be done for her.

There were her college friends who had gathered, some of them weeping, some running to arrange for medicines. I felt bad, not only for this girl, but more for her family who must have sent her to Pune with great dreams and within a fraction of a second their dreams had turned to ashes!

I sat back and thought 8211; I still remembered the day when I was talking to a group of young college girls about wearing helmets. They had flatly refused by saying that their hairstyle gets spoilt! And here was one of them lying on the hospital bed with a shaven head! One of my doctor friends, a neuro surgeon, often tells me why don8217;t you get these college students to the Sassoon Hospital casualty and show them patients with half-shaven heads!

And today I thought I should have done that, at least then they would think that wearing a helmet would definitely save their life!

If cities like Delhi can make helmets compulsory not only for drivers but even for pillion riders, then why not here.

Maybe this hoarding put up in one of the major cities, where helmets are compulsory, could serve as an eye-opener8230; Helmet or Hell met 8211; the choice is yours!