The Joshimath scenario seems grim enough. Remember the huge investment needed for rendering it 'safe'? As it is literally the bypass to the Devbhoomi, that is, the Chardham Yatra, urgently a good, thoroughly safe alternative approach would emerge, and it must, as lots of lives are at stake in multiple ways.
Sure the causes behind this crisis must be explored. Why then does such a demand sound partisan? Well, to understand it, we would have to reach the other end of our country, which is a sub-continent. If the top part our country suffers, can its other tip not have its own problems?
Yes, you are right. I am referring to the notorious Mullaperiyar dam. It is on the Kerala-Tamilnadu border. Built the traditional way, it is more than hundred years old. Repeatedly have there been huge and rightful demands for decommissioning it, a process which is most urgently due.
Well, the dam is huge. Its entire water flow travels down south as per the principle of gravity. Down the stream are three major dams. If the extremely fragile Mullaperiyar, nestled in an earthquake prone, seismically sensitive area, bursts, the entire Kerala would be washed/wiped out!
Who cares though? The oh-so-sensitive, ever ethically enraged journalists/ bloggers/ conscientious civil society voices have nothing to say about this disaster waiting to happen! Even when many amongst them come from the same region, from the neighbouring state, for instance!
Hence partisan attitude and politically vitiated demands only against the Joshimath trauma appear motivated. How can there be politics at the cost of lives that very well can be saved?!?
I repeatedly sign petitions against all such possible horrors-hurt(l)ing- to happen. I keep on sending messages to all these oh-so-sensitive types, too. Well, none ever answers as for such types, their opposition to a person, to an ideology seems to be far more important than lives! And yet they are indeed honourable men!!!
Pratima@"The problem is politics is made a sport, almost as much a sport as football or baseball. When it comes to politics, adults and politicians do more finger-pointing and play more games than children ever do. Too often are we rooting for the pride of a team rather than the good of the nation," says Criss Jami. Quite Orwellian is this quote if you remember his essay on sports turned vicious!
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