The Chennai Tragedy

The Chennai Tragedy

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The floods in Chennai have devasted everyone. I think as worse as the Tsunami, maybe worse, for this affected the whole of Chennai, whereas Tsunami was restricted to the costal area like the Marina Beach and its surroundings.


Today I was shocked to see the picture of the airport, where planes were under water. I am sure all planes must have been damaged, and it will take a while for them to be repaired.The water that has flooded the lower areas of bunglows, it must have shaken the foundations of buildings which must have become weak. As the water dries, many builduings will develop cracks and be unsafe to habitat.


Somebody was saying , the authorities did not clean the drainage pipes etc. But looking at the amount of rainfall that has fallen in the last week, at least 5 times more than what it does normally, this would have happened anyway. This was no one’s fault, frankly speaking.


This was God’s fury at its worst. No stopping of rains, no means of transport, air, road and trains all stopped, and in the city too movement difficult.People have run out of milk and even water. And even the rich , have had to take shelter on the upper floors, and to neighbours.


And it gladdened my heart to read, that besides the rascals who take advantage in such circumstances, which is normal, there are numerous instants where I read people helping total strangers. It made me feel so happy to know that humanity and compassion is still alive, that one human being is thinking of the other human being.What do I say.


I was thinking of the spiritual angle in this whole tragedy. When god is angry, for reasons know to him, he can find u anywhere eh ! He can kill and starve u, in your own home, and u with all the bunglows and crores in the bank, are helpless, and starving, thirsty, and waiting for some help to arrive to bring some basic needs like milk and water.


And look at the irony. The iphone, or the expensive diamond studded phones costing lakhs and crores, as we read, are useless and cannot make one call asking for help, because they have no charge, as there is no electricity. And even if u have a kind neighbour who says I have the phone working give me the number, u don’t remember the number as it is not written down, but stored in the now dead cell phone.


No rich person could have ever imagined, that one day he will be like a refuggee in his own home, town and city, cut off from everyone, and that money of his of no help, that he is just a beggar , begging the lord’s mercy, for such common thing as milk and drinking water.


That brings me to a different question. In future, ancipating such an occurance, should nto every household keep a few handy things at home to survive those few days like these. The list is


1) Torch with battery, the old ones, with everready battery. No electricty this will help .
2) Extra charged battery for every cellphone
3) Have landline BSNL connection, which will work even if there is no electricity.
4) Have a dozen or two one litre mineral water bottles lying around.
5) Have milk powder tins so that u can make tea at least.
6) Have lots of tiger biscuits, cheap and handy at such times.
7) Few lakhs hard cash at home, for banks are closed now, so are ATM’s. So if u need hard cash where will it come from ? All yr crores in banks are useless at times like these.


And some more ideas u friends might have, u can add with yr comments.


Coming to that , I thought of this. Suppose a there are two friends, say a Chennai friend , one Jaipur/mumbai etc chap.


Chennai friend asks jaipur chap – Mere paas bunglow hai 10 crore ka, bank mein 50 crore hai, mere paas industries hai, there paas kya hai ? (in the tone of Deewar movie )

Jaipur friend – I cant think of an answer right now, I will tell u later. Poor fellow has nothing, stays in a rented flat, hand ot mouth chap.


After the floods, jaipur fellow calls chennai friend and says – Mere paas peene ka pani hai, milk hai, khana hai, electricity hai, mobile is fully charged !!!!!


Please do not take the above in any other way. All I am saying is , we never ever gave importance to all these small things like water, milk electricity and all that,we take these small thuings for granted, but at times like these, they overshadow all your material riches, for they are your lifeline, without which u cannot survive.


After seeing this, I remember the 2005 mumbai floodings, which they called a cloudburst where, in one day it poured, and where thousands of cars with passengers were stranded on the roads, where many people died in their cars, as they put on the AC, closed the windows and waited for the water to go down, but it went up, and entered the silencer, and made the air inside poisonous, rendering all systems useless, they could not o[pen the doors, and died in the poison air inside, the richie rich people, killed in their own towns int heir own cars, hundreds of them but none reported.


So dear lord, I catch my ears, and do uthak baithak, have mercy on me, and on other friends, not even an enemy deserves what has happened to Chennai. So now have mercy, dear boss.Thanks in advance.


As I sign off, someone told me, chennai was not getting enough rains, so they had a ritual , they married off two dogs to please the rain gods. Well it seems the rain gods were very happy, now the Chennai people are looking for those two dogs, so that they can get them divorced, so goes the story.



Take care friends, my brother in law and a few other friends are safe in chennai,And listen please help in the search of those two dogs, will you ?


KAMAL MAHTANI
अगर किरण राव को अपने घर में असुरक्षित महसूस हो रहा हो तो वह मेरे घर में रह सकती हैं
:-शक्ति कपूर 
. आउ


Amir khan finds his mother old, senile and dangerous. ..
Now wants sunny leon to adopt him as her son


How lucky is Aamir khan that his wife is scared of something.

"Hamari wali toh kisi ke baap se nahi darti "



: Latest ~ vijay Mallya also wants to leave India. Says Indian Banks are not tolerant.



AMIR TO MODI : Dear sir, Meri Wife ka kehna hai ki desh surak**** nahin hai...kya ye sahi hai...???

MODI TO AMIR : Pehle maine bhi yahi socha tha dost...isliye kabhi Australia, kabhi Japan, kabhi China, kabhi America, kabhi Canada, kabhi Nepal, kabhi Singapore aur na jaane kaun kaun se desh hoke aaya..


.HINDUSTAN se accha aur surak**** desh koi nahin...isliye agar badalna hai toh BIWI badlo...desh nahin...


पति-आजकल तुम
ना सिगरेट पीने से रोकती हो,
ना शराब पीने से,
क्या सब शिकायतें ख़त्म? 
पत्नी- नहीं, LIC वाला परसों ही सब फायदे बता कर गया है!



पापा – “बेटा, आज
तेरी मम्मी इतनी चुप-चुप क्यों बैठी है ?”
बेटा – “मेरी गलती से पापा ….”
पापा – “नालायक,
ऐसा क्या किया तूने ?”
बेटा – “मम्मी ने लिपस्टिक
मांगी थी … मैंने गलती से ‘फेविस्टिक’ दे
दी !!!”
पापा – “जुग-जुग जियो मेरे लाल …


भगवान ऐसा बेटा Amir Khan को दे … !!

 

Dear Vaidehi,

i am glad yr parents are safe in Chennai. it is a tragedy of emmense proportions, no words can describe it. Even the rich have not been spared.
Yes all we can do is [pray. Got news that the few i lites i know in chennai are safe.

Regards

kamal

 

Dear JSKL,

wonderfully put by u, about mother earth. yes, agreed. Water everywhere and not a drop to drink.So true.
Cuddalore was the one which was badly hit by Tsunami am i correct ?

Wish this would end fast.

Regards

kamal

 

Dear Viji,

Yes it is indeed very tragic.

Regards

kamal