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Monday, August 17, 2009

Drought/ farmers’ increasing woes/ nature always support the rich/ government aid never reaches in time to the sufferers/ natural calamities/18th Aug

EVEN THE NATURE TROUBLES THE POOR

Humans have always exploited the poor… the universal truth… wonder if ever it is going to change at all… When nature strikes in the shape of floods, drought, earthquakes or else hurricanes or typhoons… the earth shatters and there are deaths and devastation all around. However, yesterday when I was watching the news, it struck me as to how one-sided even the nature could be to affect only the poor while the rich cash in on by making more and more money to fill in their coffers over the plight of the Poor’s deaths…

I saw farmers in drought-hit regions of Bihar holding guns trying to protect the little water reservoir they have, so that their neighbouring farmers will not steal the water from them to grow their crops… Are we really living in the 21st Century? It was sad and a touching tale of how our farmers have to survive to feed the nation. While they struggle and starve just to grow crops in adversities to feed the nation, forget the government, even the nature is against them. Instead of holding farming tools and machineries, they have guns in their hands… What more tragic can a situation be when even agriculture water has to be protected in our land by guns???

Can you believe that it was less than a minute coverage by DD News… Yes, they are no celebrity dining in five stars or shedding their clothes on screen or flying in jets from one continent to another… so why would the private channels give them unending coverage to reveal the pathetic situation of our nation’s anndatas… Why have we turned our eyes to the other side of reality? Drought has hit many states in the nation and the PM is consoling the nation that we have enough stock of food grains so we should not be scared of nature’s wrath. Through my blog, I would like to ask our PM, what is the government doing to provide irrigation and drinking water to the affected farmers and his poor families in the drought-hit regions???

Why are our farmers holding guns instead of farming tools in the first place? What are the adequate measures taken by the Central and State Governments of the respective drought-hit states? Is the so-called declared aid really reaching the affected farmers or else the officials are siphoning it to fill in their coffers? If there will be no proper production of crops this year, will it not affect the nation in the coming year? So why is our PM so casual in dealing with the drought??? Why, year after year, the nation’s farmers have to only depend on monsoon for crops? Why, ever since our Independence in 1947, nothing has been really planned to counter the situation of drought and floods?

How many more years will we will remain the same? While the cities have become a suffocating concrete jungle, sadly, there is hardly any real development in our far flung villages of our nation… Inadequate medical facilities, proper irrigation facilities and sources, poor machineries, no proper drinking water… well, the pathetic state in which our farmers grow crops are indeed commendable and worth every penny a record to be listed in the Guinness Book… sadly though, they are not even cared for in real sense by one and all in the nation…

We are too busy to talk about a celebrity being insulted in another country. No matter whether there are floods or drought or an earthquake…it is always the poor who will suffer endlessly in silence, die in pathetic conditions and will the one, who will always fill in the coffers of the rich… Well, the nature too doesn’t seem to hesitate to increase their miseries…

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