This is a paddy field that Anna and I pass by each day during our travel to the hospital and back.
Following the recent flood water submerging the field for five days, what is left is a barren field! The acres of cultivation have been lost!
With the waterbirds returning to the field, there is a hope that the water is less toxic now! Usually after a flood, the land takes time to recover from all the ill effects of the harm the polluted water brought to the field!
Everyday the the TV news is all about the devastation the flood water brought to many houses. About 20,000 houses were destroyed and 100,000 houses are partially damaged or without their household goods!
Now there is a strong opinion among some that the flood occurred not due to incessant rain, but because of poor management of the way water was released from the dams!
So there is a sense of double loss! Some people publicly express how much distressed they feel about the way the decision makers acted casually rather than with diligence and foresight!
This is a time to consider how others suffer when those in responsibility act without weighing the impact of their decisions on others! People are in grief...one person committed suicide seeing the devastation he saw when he returned to his house!
I have been thinking about children who feel the loss of all that was part of their lives- books, toys, bicycles, clothes,.... !
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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