While people across the nation have come together to help, challenge remains in ensuring that assistance truly reaches those in need
The jury is still out on whether the recent landslides in Wayanad is a result of human callousness or nature’s own waywardness. Two weeks after the deluge, there is still no confirmed count of lives lost. Survivors and search teams are continuing to sift through the debris to find remains of those swept away.
With everything lost, scores are staring at the challenge of finding some means to take life forward. Monsoon doesn’t evoke tender sentiments of love and romance any longer. It now denotes death and destruction. It shows how hapless man is before fate and it also bears testimony to human resilience in the face of catastrophe.
Like it happened once in 2018, when the whole ofKerala stood up and held hands to rescue and rebuild those caught in the floods, people came together in the aftermath of the recent landslides too. Helping hands were extended from far and wide and relief materials dispatched at short notice. And fromhordes of donors came loads of unwanted things too:fromused clothes to perishables that cannot be used optimally.