Heart-wrenching as it is, Kolkata’s tragedy underlines the peril playing out with festivities. There’s rising attendance at religious events, shrines and pilgrimages. What hasn’t kept pace is safety culture, crowd management and fire prevention. Masses push through structures of plastic, paper, loose wiring. Disaster, unfortunately, is always around the corner.
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Sympathies and condolences. Somehow, on such occasions, cannot instinctively blame the authorities. People need to be more mindful of personal safety in such crowded spaces. 2. The state government and police have responded swiftly. Quite unlike the tragedy at Kumbh Mela in Uttar Pradesh where for twenty four hours, even the loss of lives was not acknowledged.
Sympathies and condolences. Somehow, on such occasions, cannot instinctively blame the authorities. People need to be more mindful of personal safety in such crowded spaces. 2. The state government and police have responded swiftly. Quite unlike the tragedy at Kumbh Mela in Uttar Pradesh where for twenty four hours, even the loss of lives was not acknowledged.
Sympathies and condolences. Somehow, on such occasions, cannot instinctively blame the authorities. People need to be more mindful of personal safety in such crowded spaces. 2. The state government and police have responded swiftly. Quite unlike the tragedy at Kumbh Mela in Uttar Pradesh where for twenty four hours, even the loss of lives was not acknowledged.