OF all the ugliness abroad, violation of traffic rules is the ugliest. Every day violators injure, maim and even take innumerable, innocent lives on the roads. Thank God, I am still alive to put forth these words, in spite of being knocked down and injured by reckless drivers thrice during the last one year.

Of the violation of traffic rules, I narrow down to the high beam during the night. This makes appearance of a man like me on the road in the night very difficult. The readers will vouch how agonising is the penetrating high beam of an oncoming vehicle for the pedestrians.

In a desperate effort to beseech drivers to lower the beam, I gesticulate impishly by shading my eyes with my arm, moving my hand up and down or even joining my hands. This mantra I am performing for so many years but with no result.

I know this is a feeble effort of an ant to smash a hill and may result in my frail body being crushed if not in the sunlight, then in the darkness of the night.

Some one told me that there is a law against the high beam in the populated areas during night. You may call me a naïve if I appeal to the law-enforcement agency through these columns to find time to lessen the torment on this account. Or wouldn’t you?

M. ASLAM Lahore