And my India simply watched them die… Aseem N wrote this at 10:03 am • Filed under India •

Just imagine yourself into this…

You take your family out on a drive to enjoy the nature in this beautiful rainy season or to a local temple to pray to god for the well-being of your family and India. On the way, while crossing a bridge, the water level suddenly rises and your new Tata Indica is soon submerged under water. You with your family climb atop the car and cry for help. People gather around the river banks watching your plight. You see the forest minister of the state standing across the river, you feel relieved. You know that someone will save you now. But after being strangled for 8 hrs… amidst the river, you are swept away by the vigorously flowing waters… and India just watches you…die…

If you feel that this story is just for imagination, sorry to say, this is what happened to a family in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, a couple of days back. Five members of the family drowned while the insensitive crowd simply saw them struggle for life.

You can get more details here: http://in.news.yahoo.com/060822/211/66vhb.html

While this situation stranded the family struggling for life for eight hours… I wonder where the media was all that while. Is it the same media that took the whole nation into the pit for more than 24 hrs when ‘Master Prince’ had accidentally made his way down in it? Where did the media go… the same media that has become more of an entertainment medium. Who prefer to show the IPS officer dancing as Radha, the married UP woman who announces herself as wife of Wasim Akram. Where did this media go which relayed even the pettiest and nonsense issues and yet missed this one? I bet they should have got this incident live… and see the resentment towards the government amongst the citizens of India.

While the whole issue in not of the media not showing this incident live, but the government not taking appropriate measures to save the lives of those dead now. It’s such a disgrace to know, that after having a third of a day nothing much was done to rescue the lives of the family stranded amidst the waters. What a sorry comparison to the heroic efforts taken by so many army and police men to save ‘Prince’. And here to save the life of five… just two policemen! I want to ask the Rajasthan government, rather India… where was the rescue team? Where were the helicopters, the choppers?

The money of the tax payers, is only squandered and splurged by ministers over luxury and joy rides in their helicopters. They could have easily air-lifted the marooned family. It’s a shame to see my India play the part of a mute spectator and now live with its self enforced psychological emasculation.

I have just one question to raise… If the same forest minister who was callously watching this incident, was amidst the waters instead of the family… would my India still simply watch him die?

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