The water crisis will be the great test for Modi and his bigots. Traditional Hindus don't believe in intellectual or technological skills like cloud seeding (as the Chinese do) to attract rain. They appeal directly to their many gods through some silly rituals.
For example, they capture a pair of hapless frogs & get them 'married'. That apparently pleases the rain gods. Another practice: a few 'holy' men get into a barrel of water (one man per barrel) and mumble some formulas to placate the rain gods. How more primitive can you get in 2019? With shortage of water, the Modi gang may succumb to their base instincts and prescribe that upper castes have first choice over water. So the Dalits may have a rough time. Eddie --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Saturday, 22 June 2019 08:00:17 BST, Bernice Pereira <bernicepere...@gmail.com> wrote: Yes for sure! How are they going to deal with a water crisis which is looking at us straight in the eye. No crores worth of statues or bullet trains will save us from a crisis of this magnitude. The trigger happy or “axe happy” Johnies are responsible for denuding acres and acres of trees and forests with scant attention to the ecology and environment, thereby leading to rain scarcity. Bernice Pereira Sent from my iPhone > On 22-Jun-2019, at 3:08 AM, Roland Francis <roland.fran...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The real test of governance is now upon Modi and his gang. > No longer non-issues like banning beef, harassing Christians and Muslims in > isolated pockets, ignoring farmer suicides, weakening a strong economy that > the private sector will heal - now comes the heavy stuff that will affect > everybody - water. > Climate change, erosion, randomly destroying the gift of green canopy and bad > policy have all contributed to scarce water and late monsoons. > What if in the near future a series of monsoons are delayed or God forbid a > few not arriving altogether? Then let us see the emphasis of Hindutva solve > the massive problem that requires the least divisiveness and the most of > working together. > > With a population that that of India, the Cape Town Experience will be a mere > Boy Scout’s party. Woe to a man like a Modi who thinks governance is putting > one group against another. Calamity will have to be redefined if a water > shortage like the one hitting Madras city envelopes larger parts of a thirsty > country. > > Roland Francis > 416-453-3371 >
