Temple stampedes are common in India. The legacy now more explicit, thanks to the easily accessible news media of today.
What guidelines the government should, if it does, issue to the crowded gatherings? And, more importantly, to the institutions called temples? A nice and a respectable letter for the latter to put up signs, provide sufficient exit routes, or install loudspeakers to remind the mass that escape is easy if an incidence happens - and a stampede wholly avoidable?
While the current shame and blame game will continue, we will forget as time passes, and somewhere it will happen again. Also, chances are, this ‘nice and respectable letter’ will be seen as state's interference on religious matters. Meanwhile, the god, safe, smiling and pretending, has his right hand raised emitting the unseen aural beam. Bend, is trying his best. He has his table tennis racquet, desperately trying to deflect the beam - - Ping : Shouldn't the health ministry draft a memo and issue it asap? - Pong : Or does the mass needs a divine intervention in the 21st century ? - Ping : Is there another better way to deal with this? - Pong : Just needs some common sense from mass and priests?
What guidelines the government should, if it does, issue to the crowded gatherings? And, more importantly, to the institutions called temples? A nice and a respectable letter for the latter to put up signs, provide sufficient exit routes, or install loudspeakers to remind the mass that escape is easy if an incidence happens - and a stampede wholly avoidable?
While the current shame and blame game will continue, we will forget as time passes, and somewhere it will happen again. Also, chances are, this ‘nice and respectable letter’ will be seen as state's interference on religious matters. Meanwhile, the god, safe, smiling and pretending, has his right hand raised emitting the unseen aural beam. Bend, is trying his best. He has his table tennis racquet, desperately trying to deflect the beam - - Ping : Shouldn't the health ministry draft a memo and issue it asap? - Pong : Or does the mass needs a divine intervention in the 21st century ? - Ping : Is there another better way to deal with this? - Pong : Just needs some common sense from mass and priests?
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