I've been getting these forwards lately that compare the Katrina hurricane tragedy in the U.S. to the Mumbai monsoon crisis.
The comparison, in all these forwarded emails, begins with that declaration of odious originaility: 'Couldn't stop making this comparison..' (Really! Wonder what you'd have done if no-one had sent you the email.)
This mail notes, in excruciating pedantia, how Mumbai trumped New Orleans in various aspects.
An excerpt:
inches of rain in New Orleans due to hurricane Katrina... 18
inches of rain in mumbai (July 26th).... 37.1
number of people to be evacuated in new orleans... entire city..wohh
number of people evacuated in mumbai...10,000
Cases of shooting and violence in new orleans...Countless
Cases of shooting and violence in mumbai.. NONE
So on and so forth...and it ends with a sorry tongue in cheek remark:
USA...world's most developed nation
India...third world country..
oopss...did i get the last fact wrong???
Well, I don't know about the facts, but the attitude...yes, it's wrong. (And what's with 'oopss'?)
It's tragically horrid that someone should resort to alpha-male thumping in a time of grief; in anyone's time of grief.
People don't suffer any less just because it's America.
The comparison, in all these forwarded emails, begins with that declaration of odious originaility: 'Couldn't stop making this comparison..' (Really! Wonder what you'd have done if no-one had sent you the email.)
This mail notes, in excruciating pedantia, how Mumbai trumped New Orleans in various aspects.
An excerpt:
inches of rain in New Orleans due to hurricane Katrina... 18
inches of rain in mumbai (July 26th).... 37.1
number of people to be evacuated in new orleans... entire city..wohh
number of people evacuated in mumbai...10,000
Cases of shooting and violence in new orleans...Countless
Cases of shooting and violence in mumbai.. NONE
So on and so forth...and it ends with a sorry tongue in cheek remark:
USA...world's most developed nation
India...third world country..
oopss...did i get the last fact wrong???
Well, I don't know about the facts, but the attitude...yes, it's wrong. (And what's with 'oopss'?)
It's tragically horrid that someone should resort to alpha-male thumping in a time of grief; in anyone's time of grief.
People don't suffer any less just because it's America.
Comments
We must treasure this.
About the mail, my wild guess the mail has come from the desk of Vill Bill (the guy with the CM label on him) or from not-so-lil Johhny (the BMC d'comissioner), with an intent to create a feel good saying "Hey things arent so bad here :-)"
Last month they had a poster showing two images of Mumbai .. (a)one Gateway of India and the other the (b)Dharavi slum......
And wrote below it the city that has (a) also has (b). So lets collect for the mumbai floods!
These ppl need a bit of "un" learning they think they know too much about a city they have just heard of ......
so i would say kudos to that email.
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