KOSI river has brought people of Bihar in a state of turmoil that even I am lacking on right words to describe this huge, wide spread destruction engulfing almost major part of North Bihar. Even I am confused as where to start with my writing on this extremely sensitive and heart breaking incident. Millions of people have become homeless and displaced trying every moment to survive the fury of river Kosi. Few days back I came across a blog on this very issue written by a film star Manoj Bajpayee and then I realised how its impact has reached to people's heart but I knew He is from Bihar so he feels people's pain but I wonder if rest of India is really worried about us here...I have seen in media and during my stay in New Delhi for so many years that how people hate us and what they think of us. I still remember one of my flat owner once asked me " is it true that people of Bihar are labours and its crime everywhere? " I was shocked and felt bad as how can he think of us like that. How can people form opinion without seeing the realities here...later we all know about Bihari's being kicked out of Mumbai...so its very rare that any one is worried or may be only handful of people out there are concerned....recently I was watching television with news flashing "if Bihar is really not a part of India " so true I must say, we have been isolated and alienated and left with nothing but poverty of lowest order...I am a Bihari and proud to be one but I wonder what future lies ahead with nothing happening better....poverty and illiteracy remains the core issue to be solved and after Kosi's fury ends I hope people realise that at the end of the day casteism,religion and ignorance with innocence of illiteracy and poverty will take them nowhere but to Kosi like furies. I must say we need a revolution here to awaken people to realise that they are human beings and not puppets with whom politicians can play in the name of "GARIB RALLY and GARIB RAILAA..." Please my Bihari brothers and sisters understand or its too late.....OCT. 1, 2008 11:43PM After so many weeks news flashed across t.v channels that flood is receding and I myself relaxed that at least now people will have some relief. Every flood and such disasters end up with the beginning of diseases such as diarrhea, gastroenteritis and malaria on a large scale. I really get angry with god sometimes that after such a length of sufferings poor people are again inflicted or rather bombarded with another set of horrors of killer diseases with almost no medical facility and forget about rehabilitation. This all I saw across news channels that there were almost few doctors available and how local politicians started delicious menus for flood victims in their camps trying too woo them for their vote banks. I also came across an editorial in Hindustan newspaper that this whole process badly discouraged many NGOs working at camps because people were no more interested in their plain menus when compared with those delicious food items. It wasn't their fault either as they had seen so much that they have to fall for that false and fraud helping hands. The main problem with this whole process is that if politicians start the very act in every such adverse situations then there will be few or no NGOs. Money is pouring in from across the nation with so many helping hands, I just hope that help reaches to every individual who have lost their home, their loved ones, who have nothing more to lose. Lastly before I end this I would say its the most degraded form of human act where many shameless people attacked and looted these poor, helpless flood victims. That time a line came to my mind " जिनका सब कुछ लूट चुका है उनसे ये बदमाश क्या लूटने आए हैं ?". We see on TV and we get tears and those few people see everything live and real and still have the heart to murder humanity so easily...kudos
