Human greed can reach unlimited heights - Water, food and all other necessities are being sold at exorbitant price to the victims by the locals...Honestly, our country and the people here are probably the worst kind of leeches who only think of their own selfish interests even when there is a calamity ...

A small bowl of rice is costing 50 - 100 rupees. A place in the privately operated helicopters is costing anywhere between Rs. 50,000 to Rs 200,000 ! You are right, Indians are the worst kind of greedy leeches who are leeching their own countrymen in such trying times! And all in a place where people go to wash off all their sins! :blink:

In fact, either sinners or tourists go to such places. A few decades only, only those in fifties or above would go on pilgrimage. Now pilgrimage has given way to tourism. There are all types of elements in the society. It is natural that some would try to rob or steal or overcharge the victims. It is reported that ITBP (Indo Tibetan Border Police) caught many Sadhus searching pockets of wounded or dead pilgrims/ tourists.

Human greed can reach unlimited heights - Water, food and all other necessities are being sold at exorbitant price to the victims by the locals...Honestly, our country and the people here are probably the worst kind of leeches who only think of their own selfish interests even when there is a calamity ...

A small bowl of rice is costing 50 - 100 rupees. A place in the privately operated helicopters is costing anywhere between Rs. 50,000 to Rs 200,000 ! You are right, Indians are the worst kind of greedy leeches who are leeching their own countrymen in such trying times! And all in a place where people go to wash off all their sins! :blink:

In fact, either sinners or tourists go to such places. A few decades only, only those in fifties or above would go on pilgrimage. Now pilgrimage has given way to tourism. There are all types of elements in the society. It is natural that some would try to rob or steal or overcharge the victims. It is reported that ITBP (Indo Tibetan Border Police) caught many Sadhus searching pockets of wounded or dead pilgrims/ tourists.

True...it happens in many other places of pilgrimage too and it is natural human tendency. But it does cause great chagrin when we read about helpless people being taken advantage of. A very moving incident I read just today is about a family from Nagpur whose 15-year-old son was trapped in an extremely difficult spot at a cliffside. Some locals offered to help them rescue him and demanded rupees 100,000. The family all pooled their resources and ornaments and gave them the desired amount, but instead of rescue the boy, they disappeared with all that money and the poor parents literally watched their son die! :( This is the extreme example of human behavior at its lowest which is despicable,

The picture says it all....the PM and his boss were having a picnic ! :dry:

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I think we as a nation never learn from our top politicians past mistakes...now there is more news about Vadra son in law of Madame S

https://www.facebook.com/RealityOfKhangress/posts/406128096170167


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I had commenced this thread for highlighting the need to help the locals in affected reason. Many of them lost their source of income and shelter. They are helpless- much more helpless than the pilgrims and tourists who are stranded there. Once they are taken out from Uttarakhand, their issue is resolved.

But the poor locals have to live in Uttarakhand. They have no home, no property, no job outside Uttarakhand. It appears that they are getting no attention at all.