Why weren't we warned, aggrieved India asks ??

"My dear, it was a Sunday. Time was taken by the officer to get ready and get into the car -- but there was no delay.". Oh Boy !!! what's going on here.

Yes I am talking about the recent Tsunami that has claimed over 140,000 lifes at present with around 5 million more homeless. The above statement is from our honorable Home Ministry's secretary in charge of disaster management, AK Rastogi as told to Reuters. Can somebody tell me what's going on here ? How could some f***** OFFICER knowing the potential possible impact of this catastrophe on the lives of people take time to GET READY.. or was he dumb enough that he took his time searching for a lexicon just to be able to roughly interpret the warning message with terms like earthquake, tsunami ..clearly out of his/her vocabulary.


Here's the excerpt from the news article on Times of India
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/977779.cms
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The waves struck Indonesia, Thailand and then submerged an air force base at Car Nicobar, 1,200 km from the mainland. Finally, minutes before the deadly waters struck, the sea began to rapidly recede from India's eastern shore. In some places, children scurried onto the beach to pick up shells.

Faxes were sent between government departments, but still no warning was given to the public. Finally the tsunami struck, with devastating effect. "At every stage, there was a shrinking window of opportunity to warn people. But nothing happened," said Barun Mitra of Liberty Institute, a New Delhi-based think-tank.

"A country that hopes to run the call centres of the world could not call its own people." India's grief over Sunday's tsunami has not yet given way to anger, with most people too stunned by the awesome power of nature to blame their government. But the media are beginning to ask the question -- was the bureaucracy fatally complacent?

Reports say the top brass of the Indian Air Force knew their Nicobar air base had been submerged atleast an hour before the waves struck the mainland coast.

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