Varuna Bhagwan was probably very very happy with Chennaites behaviour and decided to treat us with his lovuuuu! Lovuunnnaaa lovuuuu, apdi oru lovuuuu!
From drizzles to showers to thunder storm to floods! Apdi ipdinnu, we were running the show until last week, when finally even the corporates gave up and announced holidays! ( Oh ya...the special economic zone is specially affected, images later). Our geography knowledge increased with a whole lot of lakes flashing in news!
The so called National media decided to give more importance to the Paris killings while its own citizens were dying here due to a natural calamity! 2 minutes silence for those presstitutes who run behind only TRP's!
While someone was irritated the pizzas ordered did not turn up on time, Someone was angered over maid being on leave for more than 3 days, Someone politicized the entire episode, but we had thousands of them waiting for some relief, some respite from the rains..!
Heartbreaking news on Government hospitals flooded, buses submerged in water, subways filled with water, Some areas cut off as islands...many incidents that came to light, somewhere forced us to think, where did we go wrong?
October and November are our months of monsoons, cyclones and depressions are part of the monthly schedules in Chennai, yet missed to be prepared for a natural calamity? Our Town planning has been so pathetic, that it gave up within days of heavy rains! Our water saving techniques are big time failures, the irony being, we fight for water for 6 months, yet did not have any water saving technique! We have opened up gallons and gallons of water to our seas!
Nature decided to teach each of us a lesson this year! Someone who would have boasted of owning a 3 BHK apartment in a Suburb would have repented his decision! Someone who would have been proud of belonging to the SEZ would have been flabbergasted seeing the posh office premises! Some parent who must have gone around publicizing his son's admission in one of the reputed engineering colleges must have heartbroken to see the college campuses becoming islands! For once, where the people who live in the slums, in low lying areas were not the only ones affected. Irrespective of one being a top notch professional to a rickshaw puller was affected this time!
May the Samaritans who risked their lives and went around distributing food and the essentials, live long, happily and be blessed with good health! Many people opted to give shelter in their vacant flats for people who had gone homeless! Some had opted to share food with the needy! Humanity is definitely alive and will stay alive!
Hearing of stories of people waiting for some drinking water and food, makes it evident, no matter how rich one is, everyone is equal in the eyes of Nature!
A one line verdict to each of us, Nature does not care who you are, if you do not take care of her!
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