An LKG lesson to learn water s amirtha and not a monster :I request the rulers of the country to read Thiruvallvar's Vann sirappu( in praise of rain)

For one week, the monsoon rain and the fever  were my companions. The second round of depression has just started its effect now - mild rain sorry heavy downpour .Those who have the power and beauty of youth must enjoy this time because this lesser privileged region does not get good rain always. But Can youth and children  celebrate this rain as many families have been washed away and it is always the flood prone regions get affected again and again .It is not just natures’ fury but abundance not exploited and managed well –our critical inability to govern and control the disaster .The cumulative  long neglect of pools and ponds and lakes ,the very lifelines of water management.When lakes become apartments and mountains disappear in broad daylight and everything is politics and politics is primarily a family enterprise and used an instrument to make more and more money  like surplus value is created to increase wealth in the evolution of capitalist order we can only pray to the rain God  to give these rulers pudhi(wisdom) by some shock therapy to behave more sensibly .rain and flood management is science and art and those who know the subject must be involved in and not entrusted to the politicians who are getting distanced away from the people.

This Tamil region which shamelessly begs the neighbours for water does not have the leadership and a state of the art of governance to negotiate the monsoon and conserve it without allowing it to go waste. See the great damage wrecked by flood water all along the way  and we are making poetic statements : Three months rain has poured into three  days .

Metropolitan Mumbai Chennai have proved time and again that even when rainfall is moderate the cities  get flooded exposing the flaws in the building of the city. Managing cities in future will become more difficult and ruling the state will be still more difficult as the affected people will not keep quite like slave labour.

If there is money making madness from drought and flood ( a la  P  Sainath) for the politicians and their faithful assistants we will have this sorry state of afffairs

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