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My family has lived in South India for many decades. India's infrastructure and emergency response in not very good although it has improved over the years. One
by varchar 10y ago
My family has lived in South India for many decades. India's infrastructure and emergency response in not very good although it has improved over the years. One thing I have observed is - it is the bystanders, the common man who rushe to the aid of victims in case of disasters - accidents, train derailment, floods, earthquakes. I could give you dozens of examples gathered from newspapers and from first hand experiences of kith and kin. People just jump in and start helping in such situations. People help each other especially when the emergency response is not reliable or immediately available. If your car slid into a ditch in rural Minnesota, passing cars will come to your aid. Where as in New York City, people may just drive by knowing that you will get a tow truck.
This is the issue with reports like this - they pick one or two such statistically rare case and write a report it, opening the door wide to generalization especially on a globally popular news site. For every such incident, I'm sure there are tens of thousands incidents where people help, which never get reported.
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- Alterlife 10y agoTo be fair, all the cases that you mentioned are those where where the police and the system do not look for someone to blame. The article doesn't disagree with you: > what safety campaigner Piyush Tewari saw wasn't a lack of compassion but an entire system stacked against helping road victims. ... > He contrasts the reluctance of passers-by to help victims of road accidents with their response to train crashes or bombs blasts. In these cases, he says, "before the police or media arrives everybody's been moved to hospital". There's also very important information in the article about new guidelines published by the supreme court of India to protect good samaritans.
- pjlegato 10y agoIt also says the new Supreme Court orders (not guidelines) are being widely ignored, and so they are now running a state-by-state campaign to get laws passed that match the orders.
- redmaverick 10y agoEven my family lived in India for many decades. The most common refrain culturally is "Don't get involved. It will end up becoming a police case!" The police are under pressure to resolve the case and the first person to be taken into custody is the good samaritan. This is the issue with reports like this - they pick one or two such statistically rare case No! This is not a rare thing. This is common knowledge. I think the real issue is people trying to put it under the rug because they don't want their country to lose "honor" on a globally popular news site.
- iamripu 10y ago"one or two such statistically rare case and write a report it". These are not rare as you are trying to imply. I have many friends and family members who went through road accidents. They always had to cry for help and people passed by on their vehicles. Every time I see a negative news online about India, people comes forward to defend their country with excuses. "This happens in every country", "This is a rare incident" etc..