2019. Here we come.
“Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...”
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Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...”
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Angels on Earth #ChennaiRains
Chennai’s floods have taught us a lot. While it’s reminded us, in developing countries especially, that there’s a reason cities are planned a certain way and that nature or climate change is not something you can ever take lightly, its also taught us a whole load of other lessons. Agreed, our country’s governing body is certainly not one of the best, our corporations are not the worlds’ finest and truck-loads of relief material have had trouble entering the city. However, what has turned up trumps is, beyond all this, the feeling of solidarity that all of us Indians have had towards one another. The belief that there still exist angels among us here on earth. That a community working together saves more lives than a million individuals on their own. We’ve had Sikhs servehot meals from Gurdwaras and Muslim organizations quietly sending in volunteers to clean temples as well. The citizens of Chennai have stood up for each other, helping distribute relief material,
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