As I was returning from a physiotherapy session yesterday morning in an endeavor to alleviate the effects of the roller coaster rides over the roads of Delhi on my back, I was greeted by two distraught faces. My daughter and her friend were set to depart for their regular marathon dance practice session for the opening ceremony of the commonwealth games. The dear friend had slipped in the muck outside the metro station, hurt her back and had to be rushed for an X-ray. My daughter had to catch the metro and go to Ghaziabad since a friend and colleague from her college had expired due to Dengue.
The boy was twenty years old, a star in a prestigious college in Delhi, his school and hometown. He had gifted his beloved mother a gold chain a few years ago with the money he had accumulated from various scholarships and prizes from extra-curricular events he had won in school and college. He was in a good and expensive hospital in Delhi but complications prevented his recovery.
When my daughter went to school and one read of Dengue, one wasn’t worried since the school also tutored the children and grandchildren of the super powers of the country. The authorities promptly fumigated the school at regular intervals. However University is a melting pot which does not warrant the same attention.
The citizens of the capital are beyond reprimanding the current government for its apathy. The recent elections in Delhi University ousted the congress backed NSUI and voted for the BJP backed ABVP. The students have been unceremoniously thrown out of their hostels to board the CWG officials without alternate arrangements as the owners of neighborhood PG accommodations are making hay while the sun shines. The Professors are on indeterminate strike over the semester system as dengue, malaria and typhoid are rampant. My fifteen year old niece has just recovered from viral meningitis.
The Congress seems to be taking the anger of the citizens rather lightly for CWG may well be exactly what the opposition needs to win the next election.
Hi, so in agreement with you. students everywhere are treated with so much apathy and negligence, especially about their well being, be it food, accommodation. My daughter studying in JNU recently along with her friends had to go without food and call the matron as the food was not eatable.
ReplyDeleteanother blogger friend's (India Home Maker) daughter Tejaswee Rao passed away from dengue in August under similar circumstances.
Sad state of affairs really. n the word Dengue really scares me now.
ReplyDeleteA young bright life lost. Really sad to read this after another blogger IHM's daughter rectly died of dengue.
Think before push that button...or even atleast spare some hours for pushing that button....but most of us don't and hence pay this price
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ReplyDeleteto understand the pain of a family affected by Dengue.
Sad that the government or municipality is not taking care of the health issues....
ReplyDeleteAnd till now dengue was just another kind or fever for me but now its scary :(
India claims to be, the place to be in, in the next 10 years.Sure .....but with the current situation in the city and Gurgaon...it leaves the mind to wonder are'nt we lost in over estimation.The future of this country is in the hands of todays youth-school or college.They are the ones, who are, on their tender shoulders, bearing the responsibility of shaping the future of our country.So what is the government doing to protect their lives.Creating more death holes ,which are sure reasons to broken backs or breeding grounds for killer diseases?If we do'nt decide for ourselves now,it might be too late to make amendments later.
ReplyDeleteEven if the opposition takes this issue, they'll just make a big tamasha out of it, only god can save us!
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