Good Ram, Simple Good Raam!
I thought of ignoring -but I had to come back and address your first post
pointwise:
clockwork, the floods are back again A Century of Meteorological
data+Super brainy India IT experts+ Param Supercomputers crunching Zillions of
data should have been enough to create 100’s of pp of simulation pictures
–when .where,how floods are going to hit
Dhemaji,Bhella,Krishnai,Begusarai,Rajkot!
looks like the floods have come with a vengeance It has, locally after 1
year of Drought(Drought-Like situation in Mantriji language). Super Computer
Drivers could have predicted these accurately too—if they knew how to drive
fighting over food. Can’t expect them to form a queue after a few
days of being marooned. Could even go the way of cannibals
Can the flood problem ever be mitigated? Simple predictable hydraulics problem
phenomenon seriously? Who will? Why can’t Riverlink proponents like Kalam
and Vajpayee and handsome Tamil Finance minister now be made head of Flood
problem –solving team?
Why does the Govt. allow people to inhabit flood-prone areas*? Take
Assam: at least landmass 40%is*. Bihar ~45%*,Bangladesh~60%*. Here “Govt.”
doesn’t allow people to live—they allow the people to die.
They kill the people. Because only they can print the notes, make the bullets,
import the guns.
And the People allow the Govt to :
Why on earth is the flood situation, "political" How else can ordinary
bums get chosen to LEAD?
funds allocated to the flood situation every year . See all above
some accountability? None, but Accounting—yes, to the last paise.
no govt., no entity, the public,
actually no one
is ever prepared.
We are totally oblivi
Information and Broadcasting, Classical Dance.
Culture with useless Gamosa,Japee Xorai, full page advertisements on quaint new
knowledge on the usefulness of Breastfeeding, Use of Condoms to avoid
AIDS/HIV(both rapidly on 1 breath)—Govt. is Busy attending important conclaves
in Delhi on what needs to be done to popularize Our Rashtrabhasa in all
emerging economies of outer space…..
absloute surprise every Motto here is “In crisis we thrive!”
why are we never prepared for the floods See all above
suddenly get serious about floods every year Mostly out of a feeling
of Guilt :“ I Escaped with the booty”
forget about it later Rather, prepare for more
Possibly in the hopes that it won't happen this year Far from it. Rather
visit Maa//’s temple and offer a goat and pray” MAA this year was good
Money—keep it coming !”
really depressing. For Simple Raam . Good Honest Raam. A Failure !!.
will go back to the hand-wringing “There is no business like Show Business”
millions displaced “They deserve it. Why don’t they live in some
super-Luxury flat like in SPANISH GARDEN in Guwaaahati ,the Gateway to NE,the
Hub of the LOOK –EAST Policy of great Bharat Mahaan-and ‘Designed by the the
most Prestigious Architect of our times Mr Hafeez Contractor’???
am not sure if we 'collectively' care You must be Kidding . This is an
ongoing SHOW
Am Scared --somebody may blame me for India Bashing.
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Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 06:55:34 -0600From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: [Assam] Annual floods!
>We have been trying to take care albeit in a small scale.
Yes, we have Ankur, and I am glad there is at least some effort to help people.
But all the funds collected, cannot, unfortunately, bring back those people the
state loses to floods, each year.
What I was referring to is what, if any long-term, preventative measures has
the state or center ever taken, and how concerned are the people to take
long-term measures seriously? That is where the 'care ' part comes in. If we
did, why does it happen with such devastation every year? Yes, the state does
have to learn to live with floods, but the affects, could, I am sure be
minimized.
--Ram
On 8/7/07, Ankur Bora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Quote From the reports - 1400 have died and millions displaced. I am not sure
if we 'collectively' care UnQuote
We have been trying to take care albeit in a small scale.
http://www.children ofdhemaji. ngo.net.in/
Collectively ? it's depend how community respond.
Ankur
Austin , Texas
Ram Sarangapani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=188179
Like clockwork, the floods are back again with the usual lack of sheer
helplessness & hand-wringing from every quarter. This year it also looks like
the floods have come with a vengence.
This is also the first time, one reads in the papers that affected people
fighting over food (being distributed) - shades of Somalia, Bangladesh?
And every year, we ask the same questions:
Can the flood problem ever be mitigated?
Will the State officials from the CM all the way to the district level flood
management officials ever take this yearly phenomenon seriously?
Why does the Govt. allow people to inhabit flood-prone areas?
Is there a science to controlling floods?
Why on earth is the flood situation, "political"
What happens to funds allocated to the flood situation every year? Is there
some accountability?
Why are Sonia Gandhi and others visiting the state? Post-mortem?
But one really can't blame this or that govt. There were floods in Sarat
Singha's administration, and much, much before that, and predictably there will
be floods for ever - if the status quo is maintained.
This is a situation, that anyone with half a brain can predict with 100%
certainity.
And yet, no govt., no entity, the public, actually no one is ever prepared.
We are totally oblivious.
It seems very strange, that we seem to be taken by absloute surprise every year
by floods.
If it isn't a surprise, why are we never prepared for the floods?
Why do many of us suddenly get serious about floods every year - but obviously
forget about it later? Possibly in the hopes that it won't happen this year.
All this is really depressing. I think, I will go back to the hand-wringing,
and re-post this post again in time for next year's floods, and find some
scapegoat or the other to blame for this year's floods! :)
>From the reports - 1400 have died and millions displaced. I am not sure if we
>'collectively' care
--Ram
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