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17 January 2011

Sabarimala: facts, figures and truths

There has been a large hue and cry over the recent Sabarimala stampede in which over a hundred people lost their lives. Everyone is out blaming the government and the temple authorities for this death and tragedy. Quite true too... however, I also know that that path chosen by those who died was not an official one. It was rather a road discovered by chance and not meant for public to use at all. That there was no security or any arrangement on that path, too is a clear indication that it was not meant to be used at all. Even after knowing all this, if the people took to that road, then I doubt if anyone else, other than themselves are to be blamed for this tragedy.

Perhaps it is good that the media reports cite this fact of the incident too. All the same, I do not discount the role of the temple authorities and the government who should have seen to it that the road not in use, is really not in use!

Whatever it may be, lives, families, dreams and the world of some are no more!

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