The Himalyan Tsunami

The Himalyan Tsunami​

We all know what has happened, the loss of so many lives. What they are saying is just the tip of the iceberg, I feel more than 50,000 may have died, given that besides tourists, the locals have been washed away.

Videos are coming in, of cars and houses and temples been washed away, and u just don’t know what to say to this unfortunate tragedy.

A couple from my street has died too, and there has been a lot of crying and mourning all around. Now I am coming to a point, which may be controversial but which I have believed over many years, but my beliefs are mine alone, but be patient and hear me out, even if u don’t agree with me .

There are two kinds of people, some who don’t believe in god at all, so we leave them out of the discussions. We now come to those who believe in God, some who go to places of worship to see the Gods in their natural abode, like the 4 Dhams, and like Rishikesh, Tirupati Balaji , And to places of living gurls like Satya Sai Baba, Asharam Bapu etc.

And there are guys like me, who will not go to a temple, under any circumstances, even if u pay me a million dollors. I am too lazy to move my butt, even in the city. So going out of the city, is out of the question. Even when I was to be operated for cancer, a major 8 hour operation, I did not go to any temple in Mumbai. I am fine now, I don’t think the gods are unhappy with me for not bowing down before them. I believe in god, but not going to temples. I just pray, and I feel he is there in front of me, we talk, bathroom is the best place, where I on the faucet, and talk to him, so no one outside the bathroom can hear me blabbering. He listens to me, and gives me what I deserve, not necessarily what I desire.

And these days I am scared of going to places where there is too much of a crowd, bcs of bomb blasts at these places, like the 2008 jaipur blasts at the temples here. The stampede at the kumb mela too scares me. These mountains where oxygen is less, the climbs are steep, u dare not look out of the car window, where u need local drivers who know the steep roads.

So when people go to pilgrimages, don’t they incur an extra risk ? Someone told me, even flying by plane is a risk, but that is unavoidable and this is applicable to all. U can fall on a banana peel on the road, be hit by a vehicle, but then those risks are not only on me, but for everyone.

But going to pilgrimages, and crowded places, u are incurring extra risks. I have heard, I think at Vaishno devi, there is military armed to the teeth, to save u from terrorist attacks, so u are risking the terrorists, and the weather too, less oxygen and all that. And this month of june there are rains all over the north, and these mountain areas are prone to landslides, what is the need to go now ?

Kabir has said, that god resides inside u, where are u looking outside for ? I too believe in the same. Just close your eyes, remember your favourite God, and he or she is there in front of u. What is the need to go so far. Just as I don’t need to go to America to talk with my son, who stays there, all I need is to make a phone call to him to hear him,and see him on skype, why cant we do the same ? That is remember him, and he is there in front of u. As simple as that.

But to those who want to go on pilgrimage, who can stop them? Now I am coming to the main point . Since we cannot stop them, I think the pilgrims know the extra risk they are incurring by going to these mountainous expeditions, or religious pilgrimages, so if they die there, why should the dependants cry over their deaths ? For they died for a good cause, and in fact they went to heaven, their sins washed as they died going to visit the lord at the temples !!!!!!

Hence I am very irritated, when people are crying all over the TV, that our so an d so died. Yes I feel sorry for those residents of that town, who stayed there 24 x 7, who had no choice but it was livelihood for them, but the pilgrims who died or are stranded, had a choice of not going, now what is the use of blaming the government, we know how our government works even otherwise, why crib now. Government did not tell u to go on a pilgrimage , did it ?

If u have say a crore in the bank account of yours, u can use it whenever u want, it is yours, u don’t have to go and see the money. If u want to touch that money, u will have to take it out of the bank and feel it, which carries the risk of the money being stolen and u bein g killed in the bargain, same way, if u want to see god in person, u have to take the risk of going up the mountains, with less oxygen, spend money, and take the additional risk of landslides and floods.

Why do u want to cry now, oh dear pilgrim, that u are stranded. Now , pay for the trip back on the helicopter, as I heard were charging some 40,000 per head, to bring u back to safety. God wont pay u that money, u pay it from your pocket.

But I know u wont learn a lesson, and go again, and again there will be many killed. And we will blame the government, and everyone else, but never ourselves.

We are blind.

So be it.

KAMAL MAHTANI

( IF IT MAY HAVE HURT SOMEONE’S SENTIMENTS, ITS FINE WITH ME,SOME MAY SAY THIS IS AN INSENSITIVE POST . FOR WHEN U GO SWIMMING U TAKE THE EXTRA RISK OF DROWNING, A PERSON ON DRY LAND WONT HAVE THAT RISK. SO WHY CRY NOW. )



Once a Sardar learnt only one essay about a Friend.
But in exam the essay was about FATHER.
So he brilliantly replaced the word friend with Father and wrote
I AM A VERY FATHERLY PERSON
I HAVE LOTS OF FATHERS
SOME OF MY FATHERS ARE MALE, AND SOME ARE FEMALE,
MY MOTHER IS VERY CLSOE TO SOME OF MY FATHERS
MY UNCLE IS ALSO MY FATHER
MY TRUE FATHER IS MY NEIGHBOUR
AND I LOVE ALL MY FATHERS
BECAUSE
HAR EK FATHER ZAROORI HOTA HAI !!!!!!



In the hot sun, there were some 50 people standing at the busstop.
Soon comes a beggar and each person gives him one rupee
Immediately the beggar hails a taxi and goes away
THIS IS A CLASSIC INSULT !!!!!!



One mother inlaw to another- “ I heard that both your son and daughter got married, how are they ?
“ Oh my daughter in law is really not that good.She sleeps late, and expects my son to make morning coffee.She does not cook, wants my son to take her out to eat m ore.

But my son in law is an angel.He allows my daughter to stay late in bed, even makes bed coffee for her.insists on taking my daughter out to eat so often.i tell u, I don’t know what to do with my daughter in law “ !!!!!!!!



Listening to your wife, is like reading the Terms and Condtions of a website.
You understand nothing, but u still click” I agree “ !!!!!!!



Amitabh Bachan went to a public toilet and he came out fully drenched.
His wife Jaya asked him – what happened?
Amitabh – As I went inside, someone remarked, Amitabh has come, and everyone turned towards me !!!



God decided to encourage people to have fewer children and so heintroduced a reward scheme,
He first met Nehru and asked him ho wmany children he had, and he said one , Indra Gandhi.
God was very happy,and awarded Nehru with a Rolls Royce.
Indra Gandhi was next – she replied I have two, rajiv and sanjay, god thought not too bad, and gave her a BMW.
Dr.Radhakrishnan our president was next, and god was annoyed to find that he had 6 kids.God gave him a second hand Fiat Car.
One day all three met for drinks and dinner, when they noticed Gandhiji was moving about barefoot on the street outside, and they asked him why so, what happened between him and god ?

Gandhiji said – “ This condition of mine is because, someone told God, that I am the father of the Nation “ !!!!!!!