The Broken Roof

The day was gloomy, with the black clouds hovering all day long. And yes it is a Sunday. It did take long, but late evening it finally turned into Gloomy Sunday. There was lightening, thunderbolts, whispering wind, heavy rainfall and maybe a little bit of hail as well. I can hear the sound of every thundering cloud and a glimpse of the city after every flashing lightening. I feel happy that I am home. Safe.

But then I wonder what would had happened if the tremor had hit us on a day like this? Or if it hits now since we are still getting the aftershocks. Then my thought goes out to the people out there who are yet to receive the relief. Yes, its been over 2 weeks and there are still people out there who are yet to see the face of relief. I won;t blame the government, we all know what they are up to ... I never had any expectations from these bunch of fools, never had, never will.

Nepal did receive relief materials like dry foods, tents, medicines, etc from friends around the world. Some less, some more but we did. But government. They slept too long and when they woke up, 'our' politicians were fighting to distribute the relief materials among their cadres and in their constituencies.

I turn on the idiot box and see people who have walked for four hours to get the relief. What they got? Couple of packs of noodles. That's it. They say their village is completely devastated, most of them have lost their family members, and they were there in hope of getting tents and some food. But they have to walk back home empty hand. Almost.

When you talk to the government ministers they will say they have distributed thousands of tents for people and so and so. But on the spot, there would be hardly 10-20 people who actually got it, and majority of them people with political affiliations/connections. There are bunches of incidents where those tents (good quality ones from China, US and Western world) have landed to houses of politicians, high ranking bureaucrats and the likes who have their house intact and have no right to claim it whatsoever. You can see in social media where tents donated by Red Cross has been used as canopy for car parking in private houses and all that. Isn't it a shame that there are people who are desperately in need of tents and there are these people who are hoarding it? It;s utter disgrace! It should be kind of War Crime. I mean what people with moral integrity will do this? Hope their family is proud of them. 

Oh! It's Mother's Day today. I feel sorry for mothers whose children are doing this. I don;t blame them, their children didn;t deserve to be born on first place. I can only say one thing to people doing this, 'Hope you get to feel what people needing those relief are feeling personally. Hope the next quake knocks your house down! Hopefully soon!.'

Sorry, but it hurts when there are people who are doing everything possible to help their countrymen and then there are these bunch of self-centered humans(?) who make you feel that the dictionary is yet to coin word to describe their inhumanity. Disgrace, total disgrace.

Pray for those people in need and do help them whichever way possible. 

Together we can.