My Country - In not so bright light!

I am not at all a news person. I know you will find it pretty repugnant. This apathy is not because it doesn’t affect me directly but because it keeps me wavering in confusion regarding the veracity of the sources.

Let me enumerate a few incidents which claimed lives and affected us in recent times.

1. Definitely “not-to-be-named” Corona. Death: 28,078 Affected:11,52,3552. Floods in Bihar, North East, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Gujrat, Kerala, Karnataka, etc. to name a few. Death: 1900 Affected: 25,00,000

3. Road Accident Deaths: 68,000 (yearly it is 1,36,000 on an average since last decade)* (Govt. is claiming there is a dip in this number) 4. Death of Migrant Labors: 383. No. of people who tried to migrate: 50,000** 5. Menace of Amphan and Nisarg. Death: 100 Affected: 1,00,00,000 6. Communal Violence (considering Delhi Riot only) Death: 53 Affected: 200

These are a few incidents which came on the top of my mind without doing any research. I am sure the numbers will be much more than this. But whom to blame? “THE NATURE”? How had been our proactive or reactive resolutions for it? As citizens are, we in the safe hands?

Let’s be honest. We definitely aren’t in the safe hands. The people who had been embellished with our trusts in all these years after the Independence could have done far better.