Joan Didion’s beautiful meditation on grief opens with the words: “Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.” The devastating visuals emerging from Nepal’s flash floods remind us of this terrible uncertainty of life. Our hearts go out to the people of Nepal who witnessed nature’s fury on what many would have expected to be an ordinary, peaceful morning. We are especially worried about the Indians still missing and hope every possible measure is being taken to trace and rescue them. Let us make no mistake: climate change is real. Global warming is real. The damage caused to nature by reckless and unsustainable development is real. And increasingly, its consequences are becoming impossible to ignore. If anything, yesterday must serve as a horrifying lesson. We cannot control nature, but we can stop pushing it towards catastrophe.

Hypocrisy की सीमा होती है, परिसीमा नहीं!