Reflections #0017

It’s been a week since the great Bengal debacle. For a change when I want to hear from our leadership, they seem to be missing in action. Are they too tired from 8 phases of electioneering? Are they too busy calculating and covering up for their losses? Or are they just hiding, trying to avoid any responsibility for plunging India into the worst crisis ever.

I have so many questions.

What is the plan for the next 100 days? How many doctors are dying every day? How many children have been orphaned so far? On what criteria, aid is being distributed? Why are we so short on tests? What is happening in rural India? And more…

But I am sure the government won’t have data. I don’t even expect this from people who are spending more time managing their image than the crisis.

But people are watching. They may be silent but they are angry. They may not be voicing much but deep within themselves they know that they have had it enough. The hatred that was unleashed in the last general elections is going to come back. The sad reality is that it is going to spare no one. We are already paying the price and the worst is still to come.

My only hope is the peace warriors who very caringly and painstakingly getting trained in these times. They are the ones who are substituting for the tragic failures of governance and irresponsible behaviour of our leaders.

When the time will come, the question will not be ‘Who else?’ but rather an assertion of ‘Let us’.