Can we see this incident separately, unconnected to all other
horrendous incidents that are happening all over India? No, not really,
if we see the circumstances that lead to this tragedy: the alarms that
don’t alarm, the tourist spot that wasn’t a tourist spot, the unharmed
sand mafia which allegedly was the reason for the location to become a
dangerous attraction for tourists, all the government authorities
including tourism department which had no idea about the dangers
awaiting, and the list just won’t stop. What all these show is just a
common denominator among all of us: negligence, ‘gross collective
negligence’.
Over the years, callousness has crept into our minds. Decades after
the collective struggle for freedom, self-interests have overshadowed
national interests. An Indian citizen now rarely feels that the common
interests of the nation are his/her own interest too. And the government
institutions are full of such selfish people(both political and
bureaucratic), nowadays. That is why they are rarely proactive, usually reactive, but are always ‘reluctantly reactive,’
to the issues of ‘public importance’. They always seem to be too late
and too hesitant to do the work for which they had enthusiastically
taken the oath. An example is the Uttarakhand disaster, where, after one
year...contd@Telugoos
