India - A new leader emerges in Global Humanitarian Aid
India - A new leader emerges in Global Humanitarian Aid We are exposed to a media, that focuses on identifying countries that has supported or not supported the NATO or US led forces. Has the media ever focused enough on countries that also come to the rescue of other nations when in crisis, both man made or natural ? Very rarely do we come across news, that highlights the humanitarian effort carried on by nations protecting human lives, in foreign terrain. Till a few years ago, India had possibly the worst possible infrastructure available to tackle disasters within the country. A cyclone or earthquake in any part of India meant loss of thousands of human lives. Moreover the rescue effort took its own sweet time with absolutely no strategy in place to tackle emergency requirement. Cut to October 2013, when India was staring at cyclone Phailin, equivalent to a category 1 hurricane, the state of Odisha expected around 12 million...