It is hard to believe that the splendor of Brahmaputra, with which
I am in love, would spill into the life and soul of so many innocents. It ignites
a flame that tortures me without end. Whoever has experienced the evils of
flood that Brahmaputra brings in every year, knows the ills that comes upon lesser
mortals. A man fears everything divine, but whenever a man made (or lack of it)
cheers on destructive voyage, its plain agony and helplessness. Do we need
another Noah in Assam to save us from the massacre?
An average Assamese works in a rainy, muddy, cold and damp environment
for most of his life but still dreads the sight of an embattled farmer on a
littered village devastated by the deluge. Why can’t we stop the overwhelming
power of flood that comes to Assam every year like a festival of death &
disease? The limit to do so exists only in the mindset.
Flood may be unpreventable but damages can be prevented. For most
part of India, water is an asset but for Assam it’s an enemy. It’s time to
think for the policy makers and administrators to turn one’s liability to
other’s asset. Repetitive flood is a slap on our progress and we can no longer
afford the high cost of natural disasters.
Let’s rise from the swamp full of mosquitoes to the high tide of political
will with a mindset to stop this inundation.
