Over the past month India has witnessed some of the worst tragedies including that of the Beas river tragedy where 24 students of an Engineering college from Hyderabad who were on a holiday trip to Manali, were swept away on the evening of June 8 .The Larji hydro-power project authorities suddenly released water from the Dam allegedly without prior notification and the unsuspecting students who were in the middle of the river were washed away by the river. So far 21 bodies have been recovered and four including that of the tour guide are yet to be recovered. An excruciating and painful wait for the parents of those not found, as they are yet to trace them.
 
Not soon were we to recover from this ,about 2 days ago five  cousins from a same family from Telangana who had gone for their grandfather's death ceremony, went for a small dip in the Dindi project near the Srisailam – Hyderabad Highway and were swept away by the heavy waters. It was also alleged that due to extensive sand mining the river bed had further deepened the river and unaware of this they got in to the water and were swept away by a surge of water. Their bodies were found with help of the local fisherman.

Today in yet another incident two students of a Vedic School of Malkajgiri in Hyderabad went missing in the river Serayu near Ayodhya. The students were identified as Chakrapani and Kiran. They were apart of  50 Vedic  students  who went to Ayodhya for a pilgrimage. They had apparently got into the holy river to bathe and were washed away by the strong currents.Efforts are on to locate their bodies.

Either the youth are not aware of the dangers that lurk in the fiery waters or are being left unattended by any proper adult supervision. It becomes imperative for us to give them precautions when they go to new places. First of all sending them so close to the rivers and that too in the evening hours can be quite dangerous and is not recommended. Water can be finicky and you never know when it can show its might and fury. Parents and teachers have to see to that they don’t go about alone in to the river banks or beds. With these three tragedies which are like a wakeup call to prevent future tragedies we hope that parents and children alike now at least learn that the fury of  nature is mightier than man.