Nepal Earth Quake

Nepal Earth Quake

I was in the bus and heard a news item.

I could not stop laughing.

The news said that our foreign service have already sent a fax to Nepal to investigate the Sri-Lankans there.

True none of us had experienced a major earth quake but what follows after a major earth quake is devastating.

I have experienced one major earth quake and I could not sleep for six weeks with every after-tremor waking me up terrified if not in 'pouring' sweat.

Electricity, water, telecoms comes to a standstill and become disrupted.

The Disaster Teams, first objective is to gets the hospitals running for the injured.

I was off, the day this happened but was on call for emergency services.

I had also experienced a major cyclone in UK.

It blew off the brick wall of my house.

Without known there going to be a cyclone, I had pushed few heavy objects (Fridge, Freezer) against the back door, to ward off the wind and slept through it, in broad day light.
My neighbour's roof was blown off by the wind that went through his back door.

When I woke up, there was no gas, no electricity and little water.

I was again on call. 
It took 10 days to get everything back but the hospital was operating fully in 10 hours.

They, used to tease me saying; 'Here is the guy who slept through a major cyclone'

I used to say 'I am addicted to sleep'.

That is only thing I could do well in UK.

I laugh at Britishers who politely request for a sleeping pill.

I used to say, you must come to Sri-Lanka, all our office workers snooze after lunch.

Coming back to the news item this guy in the foreign service should be recommended for promotion immediately for his astute knowledge.

Now to Nepal.

It is a land locked country and we should help them by any means we can.

I had three Nepali postgraduate students under me and I wish they, are safe, if they read this piece.

I believe the Indian Tectonic Plate did not have a crack in 1960s.

I was aware of a earth tremor in early 1970s, which even Sri-Lanka felt and it was 400 to 800 hundred miles offshore.

This was the first time scientific people were taking about a crack in the Indian plate.

How come?

My answer is simple.

This was the period, US, France (in the Pacific), China, Soviet Union, India, Pakistan and all the nuclear capable countries, testing underground nuclear tests.

India, China, Russia and Pakistan should pay this small country Nepal heavily for cracking the Indian Plate.

France should pay for what is happening in Indonesia.

USA and Russia should pay these country for starting the cold war.

That is my verdict.

But Banki Moon will SIT on it but put the finger only towards Iran.

That is the high level of UNO hypocrisy.

It is high time we elect a neutral Secretary General.