As I opened up the newspapers in the last week, they all seemed to focus (and
rightly so) on the Uttarakhand Flash Floods that happened. To those who never
go through what happens in the world around them, the events unfolds as such-
“A cloudburst happened very close to where Kedarnath is,
the water which was now coming down in torrents swept away all the four Dhams
(revered Hindu places of travel) and swept away an unknown number of people.
Most of them where devotees going to visit the holy Quadrilateral and thus I
would assume a lot of Young and Elderly people are among the dead. As of now,
around 1000 deaths have been reported”
The complete failure of the Disaster Management authorities
to even ensure that buildings and other things are in complete sync with what
is taught as Disaster Management at schools are laughable; but that’s not what
I will deal with right now. I really feel the glaring and blatant lack of
respect to the dead in India amazing and that’s what I would want to air here.
