Do you really want to feel sad for all the innocent lives lost in Mumbai over the last few days of terror? Are you really that hurt? Did you participate in some event that had some symbolic candle lighting / speech / one minute silence etc kind of stuff.
Well…you may have to do this everyday if only all such deaths get such slick national television coverage. Let me explain why…
Did you know - On 27th Nov, 86 people were killed in Tamil Nadu in the aftermath of Cyclone Nisha. Remember the MET department has warned all “to be affected” towns and their governments. The Govt could have evacuated them. Well…these guys were not at Taj or Oberoi having a fancy dinner, so you do not have to feel sad for them!
BTW…Govt of Tamil Nadu has announced 100 crores as relief money! Wow, does that mean
Did you know - On 28th Nov over 400 people died in the town of
All this leaves me thinking on how strangely we can connect Karma to Thomas Malthus to “Creative destruction”. Some quick “cut-pastes” from Wikipedia. Let me know if you think this makes sense
Karma – Through the law of karma, the effects of all deeds actively create past, present, and future experiences, thus making one responsible for one's own life, and the pain and joy it brings to him/her and others.
Thomas Malthus and a small quote on his theory of population - The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race. The vices of mankind are active and able ministers of depopulation. They are the precursors in the great army of destruction, and often finish the dreadful work themselves. But should they fail in this war of extermination, sickly seasons, epidemics, pestilence, and plague advance in terrific array, and sweep off their thousands and tens of thousands. Should success be still incomplete, gigantic inevitable famine stalks in the rear, and with one mighty blow levels the population with the food of the world."
Constructive Destruction - Werner Sombart's Krieg und Kapitalismus (War and Capitalism) (1913, p. 207), where he wrote: "again out of destruction a new spirit of creativity arises".
Net net…its your Karma if you die, cause these kinds of tragedies are inevitable in today’s age, however every such destruction will lead to newer spirits of creativity!
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Deepak I agree with you on this a lot…but here are few good things that I think will come out of it…
- as you say it has happened the “page 3” guys, if there is any hope of action it is now
- the pending approvals on many things are now getting approved over night
- very selfishly the importance of armed forces finally recognized – hence the pay commission etc may come under pressure to do the needful
I also agree with the fact that death is definite, result of our own past karma’s hence it will hit you when it is scheduled…but then I will prefer if the schedule is met by God’s rather than a crazy man …
i have been meaning to post this comment for few days now...the very same day you had updated this post, there was a news scroll on one of the channels about 500 deaths due to cholera somewhere in the west...i kind of missed the complete scroll..I waited a long time on that channel and swapped many more to catch the news somewhere else...but could not get it ...like you said...not sure if even media cared about those guys who died of cholera as they died an unknown death in one corner of the world and not under bullets of some crazy attacks
PK,
Cholera deaths happened in Zimbabwe. There was some international outcry on this. But for long the world is not been able to get the dictator, Robert Mugabe to resign
Well, my knowledge of Indian Astrology classifies these incidents as -Akasmat Mrityu . However, that by no means signifies that the efforts to save should not stand up. In today's media governed times one needs to be at a "hi-fi" hyped place for a thing like death to take place and be known all around. Strange times. Strange beliefs.
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