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Apocalypse Now: Read

The document discusses urban flooding in Karachi that occurs yearly due to poor planning and lack of enforcement of regulations. Temporary solutions like drain clearing do not solve the underlying issues, and the cycle repeats each year. It provides an example of Pakistan's inability to find permanent solutions to problems like climate change and flooding.

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Apocalypse Now: Read

The document discusses urban flooding in Karachi that occurs yearly due to poor planning and lack of enforcement of regulations. Temporary solutions like drain clearing do not solve the underlying issues, and the cycle repeats each year. It provides an example of Pakistan's inability to find permanent solutions to problems like climate change and flooding.

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Let us consider Karachi.

The urban flooding in the city has now become a


yearly event, which leads to much noise and discussion for a few days before
the entire matter is forgotten. The poor planning and regulations, the
particularly problematic encroachments are not addressed, except perhaps
where the less privileged reside. So the poor will be thrown out in the name of
clearing encroachments while upscale housing societies (also encroaching
upon drains) remain untouched.

Read: Apocalypse now

And there are the obligatory photos of the drains being cleared of rubbish,
with little focus on why the plastic bags will not end up there again if there is
no comprehensive waste disposal plan. Once the attention diverts, life goes
back to the old, bad ways and the next year brings the same chaos. Karachi is
just one example of our inability to find solutions; we bring the same approach
to climate change and floods.

However, what was disconcerting other than Sonia trudging to the revenue
officers thrice in a row was to see the party ‘in action’ over the matter. Every
senior leader was dying to court arrest. They who never came out when mobs
killed innocent Indians, or when wrong Indians were sent to jail. Protest the
leader’s perverse grilling by all means. But spare a thought also for the time
the same leaders were missing from view when a woman was gang-raped in
Gujarat of 2002 and her rapists were set free with a nod from the highest
court. Masses would have joined the Congress had it protested then as it did
Ms Gandhi’s personal trauma. Who was advising the Gandhis to squander the
precious chance to redeem their pledge for a national movement when citizens
were being assaulted by the state? Is the new president going to lead the
charge?

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