Laila o Laila

Not just my friend's village submerged under water. But many in and around it. Countless people died. some have become homeless, left with nothing but the clothes that they are wearing. Last 48 hours has seen 31 cms of rainfall. As if thats not enough the lakes and rivers around can break barriers anytime to inundate the already Laila battered villages leaving the people no time of respite. Such is the plight that though you can find water everywhere, there is no water to drink. In such circumstances the one obvious casuality is the power. Even for small rains the sources of power are usually cut.
Problems created by such tropical cyclones are arduous tasks to handle by the people and the politicians alike. But should say we are somehow used to it. Our skin seems to have hardened hearing and experiencing these issues in day-to-day life. As usual this laila will leave to give way to majnu(another cyclone) which would again destroy homes, leave people orphaned and the sequence continues. In my father words "The cyclone would weaken in few days and the life would return to normalcy". Every year it seems to be the mantra and some kind of a ritual of sadness only to return again and again.
It does not matter how many times the cyclone will return with different names, each time its the same careless approach we take to deal with it. Our MLA's and MP's are too busy in finding ways of increasing the value of their lands(forcefully occupied some other's lands) by building roads and airports to even be concerned with what is happening for the poor people stuck in the cyclone. Like police who come only in the fag end of a movie, when everything is come and gone, people have lost their lives, homes destroyed etc these politicians go to these villages with eyes treated with glycerines that would remind you a story from panchatantra. Apart from the issues that project the callous approach of our politicians, like every year even this year so much of rain water is wasted to the sea. We do not have any ways to harvest this much of water created by the twisting of dancing Laila along the coast.
Looking at the kind of difficulties we face, I certainly want these so called MLAs and MPs to come and leave in our homes and experience the same struggles that we experience every day since the time we step out of the house to offices, schools and colleges. Then only possibly if their hearts melt I think we might progress for betterment. Else there is no other go, the cycle continues so are the cyclones. But one thing for sure, how many ever Lailas and Majnus come, people would fear the demons existing among people more than those demons of nature as these come and go only once in a year.