FAITH IN HUMANITY RESTORED;
AN EPIPHANY ON CHENNAI DELUGE
On the past few weeks,
we have witnessed the melancholy of Chennaiites, where the relentless rain that
lashed there mercilessly, wreaked havoc and left its people homeless or
stranded in their homes without even food, water, and other essentials. The
newspapers and other social medias has painted the real gritty picture of the
devastation and brunt of the people in rain ravaged Chennai. Many reports,
articles, discussions and all came in medias on various aspects of Chennai
deluge. But what striked me more than anything about Chennai deluge is, the
humanitary part.
“I have two big houses
in Chennai, a branded luxurious car, and lakhs of bank balance in my bank
account. And till yesterday, my ultimate aim was to develop my company
internationally Today, what I want is just some food and water on my terrace.”
This is the post of a Chennai flood victim that I have seen in facebook a few
days ago. That facebook post suddenly vexed me and created an epiphany on me. This
is the despondency of a single person. Likewise thousands of heterogeneous
people whose houses where marooned and whose livelihoods snatched away. Those
people who were left to the roads homeless in a single day! Beggers, slum
dwellers, rich and elite people, everyone became congruent in just one day.
Everyone scrambling for same food from the relief groups.
“Water water
everywhere, but not a single drop to drink” is their situation. They have
homes, but can’t stay there, have phones, but no charge, have bikes or cars,
but can’t drive, have thousands and lakhs in bank account, but can’t buy even
food. These things failed to serve them at right time. These are the predicaments
in which money is just some worthless papers, of no use, but a kind heart, few compassionate
words, and humanity costs more than anything.
People have forgotten
their animosities and got united by such crisis. This is exemplified by the act
of giving shelter to everyone irrespective of their castes, religion and creed,
in temples, mosques and churches. This is exactly what Bible, Gita and Quran
wanted us to do. It seems to me as strange ways of God for uniting people.
Not only victims, but
many more benevolent volunteers who came forward for helping Chennaiites
unveiled the fact that some tint of humanity is still existing…! More
volunteers than victims in Chennai is another humanitarian part that
overpowered my mind.
All religions share a
common belief, of sharing and caring, which is truly portrayed at the times of
crisis. Hope such vestige of humanity that is concealed deep in their heart
during their busy schedule of lucrative activities, which is brought out only
during such hardships and crisis, gets exposed and becomes paramount.
ANCHANA.V.V
ANCHANA.V.V
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