Being the first post in this blog, I wish to put down few nice thoughts but unfortunately, I have only one thing going around in my mind. The floods (yes, once again!!) in A.P., India.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1873757.cms
The state is worst hit and thousands of people are just waiting in neck deep water and on roof tops for the rescue teams and food packets. Irony is there is water all around but not a drop to drink from days together !
This reminds me the relief works carried out during Lathoor earthquake, Maharashtra (I was @ I.I.T.Kanpur), and Tsunami disaster at Tamil Nadu (I was @ Bangalore).
I feel floods pose much tougher challenges for relief teams. In above two cases, it was not tough to access the disaster areas, at least by foot. Only way to reach the hapless souls is either by boats or by air. So, only government can do some help and its lot difficult for individual volunteers.
Last few disasters happened at places unfamiliar to me, hundreds of miles away. But now my native town itself in trouble, but I’m thousands of miles away, sitting here in Tokyo.
I strongly feel the government can take early lessons and plan to stop future floods. Its pathetic that many people were unaware of floods until their knees were wet.
Feeling nostalgic !
