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We don’t admit the mistakes we make, seldom we acknowledge the hurt we impart, alas is the human nature we now know of the times we live in. From person to institution we carry this unwritten nature not as a rule but as a matter of don’t care attitude. The casualties have become just a number to be mentioned, not even to be remembered.
Such is the modalities we conduct our activities, so compassion doesn’t get a chance to express where it is due. We have become bodies made of mere materials controlled by the never ending greed of consumerism. We don’t even get time to look at others with sympathy at least with any sense of humanity. I feel we have become mutants of human beings, we now live just for name sake.
In a democracy institutions are the paramount ecosystem where a nation becomes functional. Whether they are centrally controlled or de-centralized, the rules are formulated by our leaders. An institution is co-ordinated by different departments, however it is guided by principles. It’s the will of the management to implement the focus by which the virtues and morals of a company is maintained.
The leader of a nation can bring sanity to all the institutions, there can be written rules to follow, audits to verify, actions to make them fall in line. If not, each institution can make this happen. Beyond this when it is left in the hands of each department there can be chaos and rules become literals on paper.
When individuals don’t take responsibility it will only hurt the family, but when institutions behave like an individual the society has to bear the brunt. If this is allowed to happen without any harsh punishment it’s bound to occur every now and then.
If one incident cannot give you answers we wait for the next to raise the same question, and this continues till we get to the answers. One has to ask, how many bridges have to collapse until we find answers to prevent it. In all this there will be a real culprit, maybe they are beyond everyone’s reach, but each time we should try to get closer.
It’s heartbreaking to imagine the last few seconds of the hapless passengers in the recent Ahmedabad flight accident. Each time I see the video showing the globe of flames rising it blanks my thoughts to imagine anything beyond. How many dreams were shattered, how many stories went unwritten, how many love stories turned into a tragedy. Have we ever thought what our final few seconds would be like in a ball of flame?
I am writing this today, July the 11th, one month from the fateful day, as we expect the report from the investigation. We don’t know what can be expected, let’s hope we find the real answers. I pray our national leaders make this happen and let this be the last time someone is lethargic.
Speculations are numerous; the engine fuel was blocked, fuel quality was bad, engine got shut down due to malfunction, the plane wrongly decided to shut down the engine, the embedded system logic did not accommodate a specific scenario and many more. The only one I don’t want to hear is pilot error. Will Boeing have a say or Air India have a say we don’t know.
The black box belongs to Boeing and so they should have the final say, but in this world there are layers beyond our access, we don’t know who will have the final say.
I pleaded to the government of India to be a model to the world, to make sure we get the real answers. This will be one way of the world acknowledging the vishwa factor of India. We don’t need a revolution here, but we need the will to make changes that can prevent similar accidents. Let the world praise our leaders who were brave enough to stand against a lobby with great money and influence, to bring out what really happened.
Let’s show some humanity to the souls that perished even though they have gone past into a different time and space, maybe let’s give our children something to be proud of. Proud of finding the real answers.
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