Curiosity kills

 On June 25, early morning, i wrote the blog about the tragedies the refugees suffer. I must say that this theme is real close to my heart so much so that I recently wrote in a reputed Marathi magazine an article on refugee childhood through the example of Ailan Kurdi, and Khalid Hosseni's book on the child's sad death. 

On June 25 afternoon, I got a very interesting forward by my brother. Raju is himself a shippie, and is currently teaching future shippies. So his forward about the two recent drownings and sea burials matter. Indeed they mean a lot. 

The forward talked about the death by drowning of the three hundred Pakistani refugees off the Greek coast, while contrasting it with the richie rich five aboard the Titan  drowning literally in the deep seas.

 Indeed what a tragic loss and what a colossal waste of lives! The Pakistani refugees were dreaming of happy stable lives in the new land of acquisition. To attain this apparently impossible task, they had illegally paid astronomical sums to rapacious, ruthless middlemen. To raise the amount, they had literally sold off their very trace in the motherland. The real tragedy is that since it was a contraband covert operation, nobody even knew their names when they drowned! Curious about a safe life, they were defeated by destiny!

 Those aboard Titan also paid indeed hugely (in both the senses of the term) for a dream ride which was as ambitious as the Titanic whose remains some thousands of miles deep on the dark  seabed of the Atlantic Ocean, they were going to view. Sure it was a grand adventure in a way. Imagine being ten thousand feet below the sea surface! Their curiosity, however, was fuelled by their aggressive, arrogant ambition born out of the power of money which funded such a travel. Their curiosity about the ill fated ship was equally ambitious , equally unfortunate. 

Two different curiosities! Both proved however the proverbial truth that curiosity kills, as coincidence would have it, be it the poor Pakistani's on the look-out for a better future or be it affluent Pakistani's the Shahzada father-son duo diving for a dekko of the ruins of another long lost ambition!

Pratima@Curiosity kills not only the proverbial cat, but also 'curious' (in all senses of the term) human beings!