BlogSajikumar Nair

Man-made disaster: Chamoli’s unnatural calamity

We cannot look at the climate changes indifferently, colour changes of fruits, vegetables and leaves of plants and trees. Yesterday, it was in Kerala, today it is in Uttarakhand, tomorrow it may be somewhere else. One day, the tragedy will knock at everyone’s door in the world’s most populated region – the vast foothills of the Himalaya. Let’s not say what Uttarakhand Chief Minister said: “experts will study about the matter after a disaster ”. Human beings have a very short memory. We forget every tragedy the moment we manage to come out of it, even if temporarily. That is a weakness we have failed to recognise or an exposition of our recklessness to serious issues. Our short memory makes us selfish to take home inevitable consequences. One side of our carelessness that gathers a disa...

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