How they survive-Phoenix like qualities as a nation community, Japan once rose from the ashes of nuclear havoc in Hiroshima and in Nagasaki, earthquake in Osaka, and now this triplet of nature’s fury on Japan which saw an earthquake followed by an unprecedented tsunami and catastrophic nuclear meltdown at Fukushima nuclear reactor.
Will Japan repeat that success story?
And now we have the answer that too in affirmative.
A nation which saw hundreds of thousand people die in seconds and millions suffer for some to multiple injuries with radiation effect traversing in generations. Economy crashed, war lost. Japan rose from disasters dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by American navy dropping atom bomb in august 1945. Made stories of new initiatives and saw a country, once down with the loss in WW-II, but with courage to fight back as a nation from the tragedy of the nuclear bomb-blast and crippling radiation to become world third biggest economy is evidence of sheer perseverance of the Japanese.
Japan is notoriously situated on the pacific ring of fire, a region of higher seismic and volcano activity. With this problem, Japan faces most numbers of earthquakes than any other major country on the planet, with an attitude to find a solution to the problem through technology; Japan remains religiously disciplined nation as it made its infrastructure to sustain earthquakes of high magnitudes. Japan today is leader in seismic safety technology for buildings, bridges to anything in infrastructure. This is an example of their dedication to find solution to the continuous natural threat.
Japan, alongside technology has made people aware of safety precautions with highest level of vigilance by masses in such natural disasters. Japan can be termed a nation which can calmly find solution of such natural disaster.
Even American media lauded public responsibility and discipline in everyday life, even in the days of disasters. People only took food items for one day so that food items at stores would be available for every individual, and in the meantime authorities can reinitiate supply of essential food items.
How Japan has found answer to the question posed in front of them in half-a-year ago is a matter of study.
Here is an sheer example of commitment of a Japanese, an Indian software engineer working in the capital city had ordered food item for home delivery, minutes before the massive earthquake hit Japan on March 11, and gentleman was amazed to have his food package delivered even after the Tokyo city shook with the earthquake of magnitude of 9 on Richter scale.
Roads were built within a week to connect northern region of the country, it was unpredictable to say if there were any earthquake or tsunami hit that place earlier.
People didn’t curse the fate or Mother Nature, but had demanded government to tell the truth, earlier. People believed that government knew that situation is not in control and they had concealed the fact.
Monday, September 12, 2011
Thursday, September 8, 2011
It’s frustrating!!
It is frustrating, that nothing is being done; same speeches delivered, same excuses given, a serpent submission every time, opportunities ignored, personal and group benefits prior to nation for our national icons.
India is wounded, yet again. Delhi, the capital is hurt second time within five months, the very place is bombed on wednesday. But we are witness to these kind of lapses all through to youth-hood, shameful I feel, as we have generated this learned behavior of Chalta Hai – looking every terror attack akin to a loss in a cricket match; where none of our stalwarts batsmen are scoring, elusive bowling line is blunt, sloppy fielding is making the team pay, captain has lost confidence, lacking commitment and dedication to fight to win; isn’t it the same story with our terror fighting team- be it top leaders who seem aimless, administrators directionless, intelligence agencies careless, investigating agencies clueless, law enforcing powerless and the media hopeless – for showing how we adjust to almost anything and the much hyped ‘life goes on’ remarks which TV anchors make on following day of the attack.
Hope of people is shattered with every new incident, every time Team India loses (not for cricket) with nothing in kitty to return to perpetrators of terror, no one is questioned for the lapses, no one is held accountable. A few, who are made political scapegoats on high time, are either made Governors or sent to state to Centre and vice-versa a few months later; where is the accountability then.
Were people who shouted slogans against government on front of Rahul Gandhi and Gulam Nabi Azad are wrong, what our Prime Minister is waiting to happen that will make his government take serious step. Anna Hazare has shown this for fight against corruption, for this more Annas have to stand – for freedom, for nation, for people.
We cannot live fearing a bomb attack and not be in public places on Diwali, Dusherra, New Year, Republic day or on Independence Day. Was this the Nehru’s tryst with destiny, do we wish such destined future for our people.
People in centre have shown grief, touted same line to take action, but everybody now realizes this news is there in media for a couple of days and then lukewarm response of the government for terror will continue. We as a unit have failed to finish a terror case, one such Rajeev Gandhi’s assassination case is a matter of DMK & AIDMK politics over the issue of hanging of the convicts, Mumbai bomb blast’93 is in courts, Afzal and Kasab are waiting for a plane hijack, Government is playing communal politics by naming Hindu groups’ ‘involvement’ in many incidents yet on other hand not releasing Muslims accused and kept in judicial custody in those cases.
Where do we fail, part probably losing out on opportunities, Wikileaks says that India was not serious enough on Headley’s extradition. Our Home Minister says ‘we had information of attack in Delhi’ same was the argument given for the Javeri bazaar blast in Mumbai on July 13th, still we are sending soft signal to the wrong doer, that they shall live till they not get an ‘IC-814 Visa’. Pitfalls in investigations and matching that with case building to stand the test in a court of law, in India or anywhere is still a problem.
I know we have IB, RAW, MI (Military Intelligence), NIA, NSG and Marcos; yet we cannot emulate any success what Israel has done in fighting terror.
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Ashish Sainram Chauhan
India is wounded, yet again. Delhi, the capital is hurt second time within five months, the very place is bombed on wednesday. But we are witness to these kind of lapses all through to youth-hood, shameful I feel, as we have generated this learned behavior of Chalta Hai – looking every terror attack akin to a loss in a cricket match; where none of our stalwarts batsmen are scoring, elusive bowling line is blunt, sloppy fielding is making the team pay, captain has lost confidence, lacking commitment and dedication to fight to win; isn’t it the same story with our terror fighting team- be it top leaders who seem aimless, administrators directionless, intelligence agencies careless, investigating agencies clueless, law enforcing powerless and the media hopeless – for showing how we adjust to almost anything and the much hyped ‘life goes on’ remarks which TV anchors make on following day of the attack.
Hope of people is shattered with every new incident, every time Team India loses (not for cricket) with nothing in kitty to return to perpetrators of terror, no one is questioned for the lapses, no one is held accountable. A few, who are made political scapegoats on high time, are either made Governors or sent to state to Centre and vice-versa a few months later; where is the accountability then.
Were people who shouted slogans against government on front of Rahul Gandhi and Gulam Nabi Azad are wrong, what our Prime Minister is waiting to happen that will make his government take serious step. Anna Hazare has shown this for fight against corruption, for this more Annas have to stand – for freedom, for nation, for people.
We cannot live fearing a bomb attack and not be in public places on Diwali, Dusherra, New Year, Republic day or on Independence Day. Was this the Nehru’s tryst with destiny, do we wish such destined future for our people.
People in centre have shown grief, touted same line to take action, but everybody now realizes this news is there in media for a couple of days and then lukewarm response of the government for terror will continue. We as a unit have failed to finish a terror case, one such Rajeev Gandhi’s assassination case is a matter of DMK & AIDMK politics over the issue of hanging of the convicts, Mumbai bomb blast’93 is in courts, Afzal and Kasab are waiting for a plane hijack, Government is playing communal politics by naming Hindu groups’ ‘involvement’ in many incidents yet on other hand not releasing Muslims accused and kept in judicial custody in those cases.
Where do we fail, part probably losing out on opportunities, Wikileaks says that India was not serious enough on Headley’s extradition. Our Home Minister says ‘we had information of attack in Delhi’ same was the argument given for the Javeri bazaar blast in Mumbai on July 13th, still we are sending soft signal to the wrong doer, that they shall live till they not get an ‘IC-814 Visa’. Pitfalls in investigations and matching that with case building to stand the test in a court of law, in India or anywhere is still a problem.
I know we have IB, RAW, MI (Military Intelligence), NIA, NSG and Marcos; yet we cannot emulate any success what Israel has done in fighting terror.
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Ashish Sainram Chauhan
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