When after 34 years Sajjan Kumar was sentenced to ‘the rest of his natural life’ in prison for his role in the ‘84 Sikh Pogrom he protested that it was all too sudden

'Have 6 Grandchildren, The Sentence Came All of a Sudden' https://www.news18.com/news/india/convicted-in-anti-sikh-riots-case-sajjan-kumar-asks-for-30-days-to-surrender-1978727.html

When the Lutyen squatters were asked to vacate their palatial bungalows which they had enjoyed for decades for services rendered to the Ancien Regime they felt annoyed & insulted because it was all too sudden.

When a bridge came up where little children, like their parents before them, crossed a river to attend school at great risk to life & limb, some people felt it was all too sudden for the boatmen to plan alternative employment.

When temporary, expedient Articles & laws, that enriched & empowered a certain class were finally abrogated those affected felt it was a hideous surprise & all too sudden.

When we have debated, discussed, yearned & demanded since eons for pathbreaking reforms to change the quality of our lives, some people feel it is too sudden and that, they don’t have it in them to face change, come to grips with new realities, give up old privileges even though

they were either discriminatory or detrimental to the country at large.

However, a democratically elected government with a thumping mandate must & should move ahead for the greater good of the people who reposed faith in it -

that in itself will loosen the vice-like grip of those who find it ‘all too sudden’.