Rain,Floods,Bhubaneswar and a sad tale of two guys!!!

Raat ki neend puri karke shaam me uthe aur mann kiya ki bahar nikal k thoda ghum aayen ... Ranjan bhi sath chalne ko tayyar ho gaya tha...bas tayyar hue aur nikal gaye ...par bas hostel k baahar hi pahuchne wale the ki Indra dev ki kripa drishti waapas se hum par pad gayi ..aur kaale kaale meghon ne jam k baarish karwa di...In short ,we cancelled our plan to go out.
Its been raining heavily here (In bhubaneswar).Parts of the city has been flooded.Puri and Cuttack are also witnessing the trauma of floods.
There's one incident I am interested to share with you and its not a pleasant one.Few days back,the front page of Times Of India published an article about the sad demise of Nikhil Nayak in the flood waters...what was ironical was that the reporter had the pictures of the moment.He/She switched on the camera when Nikhil was fighting for his life after he lost his footing and was drowning.And the reporter captured the whole incident till Nikhil finally perished.I guess what was in his/her mind while doing this ... was he really praying for Nikhil to come out live 'coz that way his pics wouldnt have been that sensational.I don't know and since there's numerous possibilities of how the exact incident might have happened so I feel its better not to critisize the person further.Well,Nikhil didn't drown before the heroic effort by Rajesh Lenka failed!Seeing Nikhil drowning and crying for help he was the one ,and the only one out of hundreds of onlookers ,to respond and jump into the cruel waves to save the unknown person even if it could have meant putting his own life at stake.He told about the accident afterwards and there was pain and guilt in his words,"If one more person had helped me,Nikhil would have lived.Just one more person from the crowd of onlookers.....I could not sleep last night.Everytime I closed my eyes,I kept seeing boy's face and the way he clawed for life.....There were hundreds standing and watching us being swept away.I cried for help but no one came to our rescue.Both of us struggled very hard to come to the shore.I tried till my last breath but could not do anything.I was his last hope.When I swam to him,he clutched me so tightly that I could not move at all.Holding each other we kept fighting the floodwaters.After few minutes ,when he left me I knew I lost him."
The water was 14 feet deep and the currents were very strong.And as the pictures show,at one time the could have been rescuer himself was in deep troubles ...as he was himself about to drown saving the deceased.He was lucky he was brought ashore ,unconscious, by a boatman few minutes later.Nikhil's body was found a few kilometers away from the dreaded place entangled in bushes.


Well,such incidents happen on a daily basis and people are dying 'coz of these kinds of mishaps,but that doesn't bothers us may be 'coz we do not know about them or do not come to know about them ever.But what would have I done if I would have been in that place?Could I have been courageous enough to follow Rajesh?I don't know 'coz may be such decisions are instantaneous.I am no psychiatrist to speak exactly what might have happened in Rajesh's mind that without caring about his own life he jumped into the 14feet deep water.He might have lost the conciousness of his self-being and the greater consiousness of being human had taken over him....greater acts of courage happen only after that!

I wish , god gives me the strength at the times of such crisis...let my greater self awaken at such times.