Last week, India was empathetically watching the flood disaster that upturned Chennai. Without notice, a key portion of the city got drowned, killing many of our kind. The trapped people’s first concern was not the physical or financial damages that happened. Their prime concern was to physically save themselves, their family and their dear ones. The struggle was quite painful to many thousands who got locked up in the city. The whole nation was together with the city extending all possible helps. But it all did not matter to those who were totally isolated.
In between, I heard a touching story from amidst the crying crowd. This was on the struggle of a man for food and water. He confessed, neither the big salary he drew every month nor the big balance in his account could provide him with the necessary quantity of food or water, which he needed to sustain his body.
India Today published a few Google photographs, which clearly showed that this disaster was man made. All the water outlets are closed with multi-floor apartments, the whole ground is sealed with floor tiles and tar roads and all trenches are filled with garbage of all kinds. The city also failed to follow an eco-friendly development code.
The photographs, which appeared in the news showed people from all segments, irrespective of caste or community, religion or wealth, male or female…… all queuing up before food supplies. There in the flood hit city, everybody talked about only one religion – the religion of hunger.
Joseph Mattappally
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