Western Maharashtra was mercilessly pounded by rains last weekend. As I stood gazing outside the window on Sunday morning, poetic thoughts made their way into my mind. I was blissfully unaware of the havoc rains had caused in my city the previous day.
A construction labourer working at the site of an IT park in the city lost his 6-month old baby. Before leaving for work that morning, the labourer and his wife put the baby to sleep in their makeshift room near the site. The baby ended up drowning in the water that flooded the room and by the time the parents returned, it was too late.
Such heart wrenching tragedies of those not living in pucca houses occur year after year. The reports on their plight are invariably relegated to the inside pages of most leading newspapers. Why has society become so comfortably numb to the loss of human lives?
