The business of Tragedy

The business of tragedy...
This is one of the most profitable venture that exists in this world and people tend to approve of it the most socially,morally and emotionally...
Hey wait a minute... am I talking crap.. business of tragedy.. how is it possible??

Well friends if you see that not all tragedies are money making milking cows,for exapmle when there was an earthquake in Gujarat people dod not make money there, rather this was truely one of the worst kind of tragedy.. but imagine other situations specially where the tragedy has occurred due to human error...
Don't believe! Keep reading on................

the first example I would keep that is of freshness is the Bhopal Gas Tragedy......

1980's was the time sonce the catastrophe took place but look at them now... still they are fighing for justice.. well that is not a problem. Infact that is good and very much humanly right.. but what is wrong is the fact that some people and organisation that tend to make money out of it.

I happened to attend a 'talk' with Indra Kumar, the writer of 'Animal People', at St. Stephens College,Delhi.Actually I had met him first at Jaipur Literature Festival where he himself had told me that he would be visiting Delhi because of the invitation from St. Stephens. Quite a chubby but influential writer... the book was good and I did buy it afterwards.

But what attracted my attention was the presence of an NGO supporting th cause of the Bhopalis there. Well initially I was quite impressed and also of the fact that their efforts were bearing fruit and that it was indeed making the Central as well as the State Govt. think about their state of being.
But slowly and gradually things began to dawn on me. Are they truely fighting for a cause.Last year too they had staged a dharna(protest) at Jantar Mantar but it only led to unfulfilled promises and so this yar they were the repeat the same stint and that they would stage a walk from Bhopal to Delhi on their legs.......
But I happened to think that these Gandhian ways of protesting and dharnas and stuff what meaning did they have or are they ust being manipulated by the NGOs. Well last year they did not get the result, this year hey wanted to walk all the way from Bhopal to Delhi to protest so what next..... Till when are they going to show such stints.... Well when they would walk from Bhpal a truck with complete medical aid would be there to help and medicate those who fall ill and more so even they happen to get tired....Why this medication....

The point is... the victims of such tragedies are already living a life of a living dead. Then how much do you want to kill them further.... Why not go after a full fledged war.. why not brak some offcies and stuff and go for a complete hunger strike that would be fast unto death..I mean they are already dead, just a piece of diseased meat hanging on a structure of bones... why not lead the remaining life for a meaningful purpose,why not fight for true justice with such a vengeance that would tantacially amount to either do or die... Its their problem... what will the world do at the most.... show their empathy and talk about the blasphemes ways of the govt. IS this what they want? Is empathy and solidarity going to fulfill their stomach,going to bring them justice... even though it has not been found who the real culprit was or the gas company was alone the sole responsible for such a henoius act...
Thus ultimately the conclusion lies that something is wrong somewhere.....
The problem is the NGOs.. they won't leave the people to die in peace and just give them a raw hope justice..... and will continue to mop up money from other sources like donations, selling of "I support the Victims" T Shirts and other such goodies at a considerably high price... stage a dramatic protest march where the protesters act like puppets and then the show is over....
If that is not all there is more... There is more... what is the biggest impact of globalisation.. that companies set up banches all over the world and thus the existing national company would face difficulties in terms of their monopolistic ways...
So what do these national companies do.... try there best to prove the ill effects of the foreign invaders by supporting such tragedies.. so that they ,the foreign companies are not able to enter India... and there you are lo and behold... people would not sentimentally approve.. it because they are human animals devoid of the power to think and thus if they would not approve of such things.. the govt' would find it difficult approving any thing of such importance and there ou are the selfish,monopolistic Indian companies are successful...........And all this is nothing but the business Of Tragedy..........

Another prime example is the Irag war....
US went ahead with the war to revive its weapons industry,to prove its superiority in the world and finally to drink some oil....

So what is the final outcome... Irag is destroyed and US companies and foreign ones too are having a jolly good time rebuilding Irag all with the tax payers money.....
The business of Tragedy...

Have you seen the movie Shindler's List...Watch it! Wonderful movie and an all time classic.
Here Shindler is a struggling German businessman who finds an oppotunity to make money when the German govt. takes anti Jewish steps like confining then in ghettos and stopping them from carrying on further commercial activities......
But Shindler utilizes this tragedy to make alot of money but ya its a different thing that his heart changes afterwards and he saves alot of Jews from going into the hrrible gas chamber..
Anyways here was the beautiful example of the gas tragedy.....

Making money out of tragedies has become a lucrative business.. recently farmers in Punjab had a bad cultivation...
Soon they were brought to Delhi wearing Sexx 'save farmers' T Shirts protesting against the govt.... and a few private enterprises... the circus lasted for a day..... and then it was over....everyone went home smiling....
Another is the Singur tragedy.. I fail to understand what was the big issue about such a thing.. the govt... was willing to relocate them(farmers) to some other place,but still the protests went on... Why MAmta Banerjee and a few NGOs found a way to milk the govt. as well as TATA. I don't think they succeeded.

The History is full of such examples.....
The Moral OF the story is : dont give to such sentimental craps publisied by ridiculous NGOs untill and unless the fight is good enough to bear results and not a media circus......
Secondly when you see a tragedy... then remember.. someone is making money out there... :-) Especially the tragedies due to human...

Keep reading .. will be back with more interesting stuff....
till then
Sayonara