Death looming large over Asia

This is the scenario being depicted over more than a month now. It was Myanmar first, then was the turn of China, then India, who's next?

As if facing Mother Nature's ire in form of the catastrophic cyclone and earthquake at Myanmar and Sinchuan province of China was not enough, death came in form of man-made bomb blasts at Jaipur in India. It is a scene which started off with bird-flu deaths in endemic proportions. The disaster management teams all across Asia did manage to curb it by culling birds in unheard of numbers before man too started succumbing to the disease in larger numbers. 

Global warming and heating up of the earth's core are at the back of it. It is causing variations in the atmospheric winds and tectonic plates clashing, glaciers melting, all in an unusual manner. This is the first time in the 21st century that natural calamities are occurring at regular intervals. Upheavals in form of Hurricane Katrina that hit the US are not rare; hence people there are better prepared to manage themselves.

Not so in Asia. After the tsunami that hit a number of countries in South East Asia like the Philippines or Sri Lanka, India was slightly better prepared as it took measures for geo-mapping of cyclones in the region. Though it forewarned Myanmar about Cyclone Nargis hitting it, the military junta took its time waking up to India's call.

The world aid pouring into Myanmar and being mismanaged by the military there, is now leaving its traces in form of dead bodies lying scattered everywhere and disease in form of epidemics waiting to spread. The weather in form of torrential rains hitting almost all parts of South East Asia, is also not allowing humanitarian and timely aid to be given either to the cyclone or the quake victims.

Which governments will take responsibility and do their bit in quickly taking stock and distribute aid fairly is the question at hand. If not that, then Asian countries will only have themselves to blame for getting off-track from their newly found economic richness.