Friday, December 4, 2009

In light of disasters

While reading reports on Bhopal tragedy on its 25th anniversary - the world's worst ever industrial disaster which took the lives of nearly 20,000 people and left an approximate no of 5 lakhs people suffering - i felt very disturbed and had an urge to do something. I searched options, narrowed down to some suggestions, but the very next day, I lost interest in the whole tragedy and carried on with my own personnel life. I feel I am no different from any news reporter who eventually loss interest in any serious matter after a short while and start digging for other interesting exclusives. I guess almost everyone around are with similar ideas and that maybe one of the reason even after 25 years of the tragedy, the affected people still suffering, deprived of enough compensation, depending on the same polluted ground water ( as per reports there is no pipe water supply in these areas) and living in the midst of pollutants which are still not removed. Can we as fellow human beings, do something to reduce their pain? There will be many NGOs working to sort out their problems and give solutions but can we add on something? Maybe someone from another part of the world might have experimented something in a similar situation and reaped success. If he speaks up, someone from somewhere else might be ready to take up the challenge. These 'if', 'maybe', 'might be' are all probabilities but still I feel that there is a possibiliy in these probabilities. I dont have solutions, but if you have, why not speak up?

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