I was really shocked to wake up so early in the morning to see on TV that some firemen are risking their lives to rescue some senseless old woman from a high rise building. Black thick smoke was gushing out of the windows of the building and some helpless eyes were looking at it with expectations and helplessness. I thought that it was another Stephen Court story that the Kolkatans have already got seasoned with. But it was even worse. It was a private hospital of much repute in Kolkata. And the casualties were patients in it. How would the penal code define the crime of deliberate violation of the fire prevention measures at a place that promises to give back life to people? I do not know.
All I know is that from the news channels to private hospitals all are catering to their business growth forgetting the social responsibilities they are bestowed with as while reporting the deaths at the hospital, a reporter with his lungs full of air shouts out, “We have been reporting the minutest of the details of this accident from the very beginning and no one can touch the success we have achieved thus.” Are we humans, the cleverest fallen angels?
