The Ninth Child.

Uttarakhand floods: 10,000 dead? Congress squabbles over body count.

http://www.dnaindia.com/india/1854945/report-uttarakhand-floods-10000-dead-congress-squabbles-over-body-count

The Uttarakhand Congress is playing politics over the bodies of flood victims in the state.

While Uttarakhand chief minister Vijay Bahuguna has been insisting that the official death toll is under 600 and has also asserted that the precise figure would be known only after the debris is removed, state assembly speaker Govind Singh Kunjwal on Saturday said that more than 10,000 people could have perished in the floods.

Bitter political fight over Bodh Gaya blasts

The serial blasts in Bodh Gaya led to a political slugfest between the Congress and the BJP on Monday (July 8 with Digvijay Singh targeting Narendra Modi, saying the incident happened a day after he asked BJP workers to teach a lesson to Nitish Kumar. 

"Aren't they suggesting a Muslim involvement without full investigation? Flip side of this. Amit Shah promises a Grand Temple at Ayodhya. Modi addresses Bihar BJP workers and asks them to teach Nitish a lesson. Next day Bomb Blasts at Mahabodhi Temple at Bodhgaya. Is there a connect? I don't know. ALLOW NIA TO COMPLETE INVESTIGATION PLEASE !," Singh said in his tweets posted one after one in the same order.

http://www.timesnow.tv/Bitter-political-fight-over-Bodh-Gaya-blasts/articleshow/4431638.cms

Revenge of nature one calls it. The other wrath of God. Army calls it work. The politicians point their fingers at each other. The 'God fearing' fold their hands for priests. The priests point their fingers up at the sky. The environmentalist points his finger at the industrialist. the industrialist shrugs. The anarchist stifles a laugh. The existentialist sighs. The Protesters are ready with their flags. But the rest, the victims are already dead. We sit in our homes watching it on TV. Deciding what we should call it.

The Hindu epic, Mahabharata tells that the Vasus, cursed by Vashishta had requested Ganga to be their mother. Ganga incarnated and became the wife of King Santanu on condition that at no stage shall he question her actions, or she would leave him. As seven Vasus were born as their children, one after the other, Ganga drowned them in her own waters, freeing them from their punishment and the king made no opposition. Only when the eighth was born did the king finally oppose his wife, who therefore left him. So the eighth son, Dyaus incarnated, remained alive, imprisoned in mortal form, and later became known in his mortal incarnation as Bhishma (Devavrata), who is one of the most respected characters of the Mahābhārata.

The Ninth Child.

The goddess drowned her seven children

Delivering them from birth and death.

A thousand died few days ago

Still fighting for one breath.

Rain poured hard as clouds burst open

The wild wind razed all new and old

The river still swelled, and surged, and swept

Everything that man can hold.

A small boy lost, a child of ten,

Clung unto some rocks of sand

Pale and wet and cold and scared

With no one out to lend a hand.

The current yet strong pulled on his legs

His hands still weak held on to life

The rain like arrows, weighed him down

And wind cut him with thousand knives.

His family lost, his hopes diminishing

He cried out for his mother’s voice

She had said God punishes sinners, that

All was just in heaven’s eyes.

And this land was heaven, God’s abode

And God knows best, he knew.

Yet water rose and rocks fell loose

As death painted it all anew.

Thus, a child of Goddess ages later

Struggled and was ‘cured of sin’.

The very same river claimed his soul

That drenched the ashes of his kin.

They said one dip in holy water

Delivers one from birth and death

That boy must have just loved to live

For many a bubble rose up for breath. 

                                                             -- kafir.