Just now I have switched channel to watch a movie. I has already started. I don't know its name. I don't care. It would be better than the tirade they are showing on all news channels. I am not surprised though, I am ashamed. How can somebody ignore the plight of such a huge population. Even animals care. We, humans, don't. We are commercial animal. We care for things, which pay. Hence, we show only those news, which, we think, will sell. After all who would be interested in watching plights of people of Bihar. They do not belong to this world. Through out the day, I was following all, so called, news sites and other general information sites. No update. Perhaps they don't care. That's journalism for us. The new age journalism, covering news, which sell. Commercial news. I'm convinced that these people are dumb, of the highest order. If you treat a part of population like this, what can you expect them to treat you in turn. 2 Million people, drowning, many doomed to die. Die slowly. Die seeing others die before them. And, they are not on our radar. What are all these innovation in connectivity for if we can't connect to our own people? Or, perhaps, we don't want to connect to them. The sense of commercialization is too strong to care for we, the people.
Anyways, it has happened that river Kosi, the age old sorrow of Bihar, has changed its course. It has changes its course by almost 92Kms. Within a few couple of days. I hope many of us would understand the gravity of this. The river is now flowing through a channel, though which it used to flow at least 120 years ago. Flooding, rather severe flooding, is not new to this part of the world. But a river, that too Kosi, changing its course back to where it was more than a century ago, is something, which is not just flood. I am trying to visualize how one would have reacted after realizing this. I am sure many of the suffering people would not have seen this river in their life time, rather may not be in generations. After all, how many people of Purnia would travel to Saharsa and see this river. This happened and that is how we have reacted.
I am sure that after a few days, all these phony news channels would line-up there to show heart-breaking stories of suffering, challenging each other supremacy in covering in depth. Showing some obscene graphics and comparing this with some out of the world examples.
Anyway, my condolences to all who are suffering. I don't know how can I be of any help to them. Long back we tried to help one those kids, Prakash, who was left without parents. He stayed with us for a a couple of years. We arranged for his education and he used to help our mother, who was suffering from strange disease, in taking care of household. He went to visit some of his relatives and did not come back. There was another guy too. He had lost his mother. He stayed with us for a almost a year before his father turned up and took him back, promising that he would take his complete care. Both these kids left so deep impression on us, especially on my mother, that we decided no to drain us emotionally any more. These guys told us about the horror of flood and plight of life after the flood in that area. We would never be able to comprehend. And, these news channels would ensure that we never would.
We hope these guys would be doing well. I am hoping that one of these knowledge channels, NGT or Discovery or History, would show the significance and extant of the tragedy in this year's flood. I wonder if these flood would ever be controlled. Or, Kosi would remain the angry old lady, firm on destroying everybody where she was not treated well in her youth.
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