I recently had been to one of the busiest roads in Calicut. I was walking and when i reached there, there was no road. I could only see water flowing but ignoring that I continued walking and water was there upto my knee.
On seeing this I remembered the lines of Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his poem The Rime of The Ancient Mariner in which he says 'water water everywhere not a drop to drink'. Just like that there was a lot of water there but no place to walk. I continued wading through the water and then saw the cars and other vehicles floating on this.
What is the reason for this? Poor drainage, unplanned city growth, unpredictable amounts of rain? All these have contributed to this flooding, but we should have planned for this huge amount of rains for the simple reason that humans are cautious.
All that has been done (which is nothing) can be forgotten. Now, we need to see what can be done and need to do it. We includes you, me ,our friends and all those who we know.
Lets do it without just questioning or playing the blame game.
Vande Mataram
