‘Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.’ Elaborate the statement of Dalai Lama taking reference from the chapter ‘Weathering the Storm in Ersama
Solution:
The prose "Weathering the Storm in Ersama" has given a clear picture of the cyclone that hit Orissa in October 1999. Prashant, who was just nineteen years old, decided to lead the people of his village. Even though he himself was grief-stricken, he organized a group of youths and elders to jointly pressurize the merchant once again to part with his rice. This task was done successfully. For the first time in four days, the survivors at the cyclone shelter were able to fill their bellies. Then he organized a team of youth volunteers and cleaned the shelter of filth, urine, vomit and floating carcasses, and tended to the wounds and fractures of the people who had been injured by the cyclone. He brought the children who were orphaned together and put up a polythene sheet shelter for them. Women of Kalikuda were mobilized to look after the orphaned children, while the men secured food and materials for the shelter. The women began to work in the food-for-work programme started by an NGO. They considered the alternative of resettling the orphans in their own community itself, possibly in new foster families made up of childless widows and children without adult care. Only love and care can reduce the devastating effects of calamities by helping more and more people. So, in the words of Dalai Lama it can be rightly said that love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries and without them humanity cannot survive.
The prose "Weathering the Storm in Ersama" has given a clear picture of the cyclone that hit Orissa in October 1999. Prashant, who was just nineteen years old, decided to lead the people of his village. Even though he himself was grief-stricken, he organized a group of youths and elders to jointly pressurize the merchant once again to part with his rice. This task was done successfully. For the first time in four days, the survivors at the cyclone shelter were able to fill their bellies. Then he organized a team of youth volunteers and cleaned the shelter of filth, urine, vomit and floating carcasses, and tended to the wounds and fractures of the people who had been injured by the cyclone. He brought the children who were orphaned together and put up a polythene sheet shelter for them. Women of Kalikuda were mobilized to look after the orphaned children, while the men secured food and materials for the shelter. The women began to work in the food-for-work programme started by an NGO. They considered the alternative of resettling the orphans in their own community itself, possibly in new foster families made up of childless widows and children without adult care. Only love and care can reduce the devastating effects of calamities by helping more and more people. So, in the words of Dalai Lama it can be rightly said that love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries and without them humanity cannot survive.