Two things disturbed my conscience today. The first one was the disturbing news of 8 children drowning in the river at Kozikode. It left a deep sense of hurt in my mind as always when I hear about tragedies happening to children and more so in the last 3 years after becoming a father. When do we learn to value life, life of people who could be saved by some little acts of precaution or discretion from our side. Initial reports suggested the reason for the boat to capsize was because children tried to stand on the boat disturbing its equilibrium. I can imagine a boat full of students traveling with nobody to control full of fun and frolic trying to be adventurous not knowing what it could lead to. My heart felt sympathies with the families of the bereaved who has to live with this tragedy for the rest of life.
The other thing which left me wondering about the state of the nation was the services teams decision to not to play Cricket in Srinagar. Small thing may be but sends out lots of wrong message to the world about our nation. I am seeing a lots of discussions about who took this decision and I am bewildered by the fact that this is being debated internally for last 15 days and nobody in the leadership hierarchy had the foresight to find out its impact on the nation and the message it will send out to the world. What are they suggesting ?The Indian Army or services cannot ensure the safety of its own people some part of our country ?. We are going to host Commonwealth games next year and we want people to come down. Hope the people who took this stupid decision will be taken to task….
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