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Reporter’s Diary: At These Kerala Relief Camps, People Optimistic About Rescue Ops | The Quint

The Quint visited two relief camps set up in Kerala's Thrissur district. Floods have ravaged God's own country but the people are battling all odds hand-in-hand.

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  1. What joy do you get in asking about which caste or religion is handling the operation…..it’s times like these we wish national media left us alone….ur previous video ,u were blaming deforestation for the rains ,get ur ethics in the right place man

    • GADGIL Commission Report Does this ring any bells?
      It was hushed up by Chandy/Khangress/Church an Commies
      It came back to Haunt
      Plain and Simple
      Had actions been taken on that this day wouldn’t have come

    • SuperJoseph234 deforestation is the problem. Indians are having too many children. Also why do you care which religion is helping? Are you a backward jihadi killer or raping RSS member?

      Especially in North india there is a competition between different communities to have more children than others which is leading to destruction of nature which affects everyone throughout the nation.

    • +niknsync at least they have their priorities straight . Atleast they have that sense or are educated enough to not fall into Religion based Politics. Man you assholes tend to act mighty. Let me remind you that your GOVT. Couldn’t even declare the floods as National disaster and allotted Kerala a mere 500cr as relief.

      Qatar and U.A.E had spent 100mill Dinar as relief for Kerala that too individually.
      What was the central Govt doing hatching eggs and saving up money for Marketing for that good for nothing PM.

    • Ali Khan the problem with muslims and christians of this nation is that they have always despised Hinduism. Even if a Hindu sacrifices his life for you, you still will talk foul.
      The reason is simple. Your religion teaches hatred towards other religions especially idolators.
      You muslims have lost human values long ago.
      I dont support lynching. But people like you are the reason that whenever a muslim is lynched, i fee happy.
      Enough is enough! Your victim card has pissed us off. You have taken advantage of our hospitality for far too long. Now pay the price

  2. Never before has an entire state been on red alert in all of its districts for days. Its is also the most densely populated and well developed. Yet it was not declared as a National Emergency bcos more people have to die for that! Our PM had not addressed on the disaster other than on his twitter account managed by his IT team. He did a rushed aerial visit after several days at his conenience for photo opportunities. He talks about nationalism but is mostly on International visits. Talks about religious bhakthi when thousands of Hindus are dying or in relief camps without food. Its only about power, party and money. Unfortunately this is the Indian Union where Southern states are ignored; bullet trains and giant statues are the priority. The Opposition has also turned a blind eye. When convenient to them they go on hunger strike, create chaos in Lok Sabha, call all party meetings. Unfortunately this vote bank politics by all parties will create another Soviet Union style breakup. We boast of being a Super Power but countries smaller than Kerala have woken up formed committees to help the State.

    • FYI they’re those people who’ll blame modi even he doesn’t come to Kerala saying “ he can travel the whole world not the state that’s part of India “ but I disagree with you in Kerala not being a BJP votebank , Ever?

      Yes, BJP can. The growth of BJP in Kerala is big compared to other political parties.

      The vote share got increased to 15% from under 5%.

      What accelerated this growth? Obviously the Modi factor. The inside fight in Congress and Communist parties added to it.

      But if you ask me, when it can, it will be a bit long time from now. Kerala, being a state where religious differences are very low, is difficult to be invaded with the card of Hindutva alone. The feel of a good leadership under Narendra Modi has obviously created a better impression of BJP than the same before 10 years. The lack of a good leader always is a curse for the party when compared with the Communist party or Congress in Kerala.

      BJP opened its account for the first time in the last assembly elections through O. Rajagopal and secured second position in a couple of other places. Indeed, there is a growth, but depends on how the leaders take it forward.

      *All credits goes to Ajmal E.S in Quora*

    • Surrounded by Bats&Cats
      Why bjp is getting more votes is because of extreme anti Modi agenda by Christian church mafias, muslims, commies…
      Secular always blame no for his hindutva but can’t raise a single finger against similar filth in christianity, Islam due to votebank…

      These anti Modi clowns are as same as crowding sanghis

    • +Gregory Perrierra Welcome to the comment section IT cell member of his team with the fake name. Glad to see you cannot answer any of the issues I have highlighted. It shows you are a paid parrot on the keyboard doing the masters wishes. You don’t solve one problem by creating a bigger mess. If terrorism is an issue we have to solve that if Church mafias are playing games there are easy ways to counter these. But the most lame thing any leader can do is to scare the hell out of the majority so they can become another vote bank. The thing you fail to remember is the country was ravaged for centuries by invasions and looting because of “casteism”. The Aryan brahmin outsiders introduced racial superiority for their benefits on the native majority Hindus. In Kerala a temple entry proclamation had to be passed in the 30’s for the lower caste to enter. At one point lower caste women were not allowed to cover their breasts. I dont have to go into details what is happening to the dalits now in North India. Let us go back to pre-British times when were were small kingdoms fighting with each other. We have forgotten why our forefathers formed the “Indian Union” out of “British India”. The concept of “undivided India” is another RSS Brahmin deception to retain back their power. They cry about partition by a Colonial power that had conquered all the kingdoms. This is as if “undivided India” existed before British. Do you know the name of the Hindu king of “undivided India” who British invaded ? Please continue reading Mein Kampf and all Aryan literature of these outsiders. Brahmins succeed by pointing fingers at others while they enslave the other castes. This is why they want to portray Christians and muslims as outsiders who have to be sent out. So the other castes will serve them and not convert.

    • +Gregory Perrierra IT Cell member with fake name to poison people. Who talked about religion ? Spill your Aryan poison in your motherland Germany. Origin place of your Caste racial superiority. It enslaved people for centuries and created weak kingdoms that were not able to withstand even Afghan tribesmen invading a looting us.

    • This should be our’s great lesson to be! Enough of the past , our HARD EARNED TAXES BE SPENT UPON OUR STATES(KERALA,KARNATAKA,TAMIL NADU,TELANGANA N ANDHRA) itself! No more mercey upon the states of north r thr people! Its time to thnk abt our Family n kids n our people(south who r mostly neglected by north n its gvt) at the present movmnt eithr any state of southindia is happy with northies n thr gvt n evn people(mentality suck) n we hav no reason to stay United with them.

  3. We are not sure what is the condition of the aid camps in kerala. If an organisation is showing one part of the relief camps condition, one should not be questioning the about the effect of religion. People are in distress. Help them. Stop ridiculing people who are in ground while you yourself are living in lavish.

  4. Aghast at the way the Quint haters have pounced upon Quint in this comment section while there is nothing in the video worth hating or worth “loving”. It’s just a video showing the havoc wrecked upon Kerala by the flood. The kind of hate shown here speaks not of Quint but of Quint haters themselves. Since there is hardly anything “political” here, and the quint is not providing any strong argument against anything they thought why not just attack Quint just for the sake of it? Another thing that has to be said by any sensible person for the comprehension of some “dumbheads” here is that the question on caste and religion was asked to show how in hard times like these people hardly care for these petty things and just stand for humanity. Thus a church gives shelter here to people of all religions and castes. I wish our temples and mosques too had done that in stead of just storing idols of gold. That would have been the real respect and worship to God irrespective of the religion he/she belongs to.

  5. We will do what it takes to bring kerala back to its feet. My fellow malayalis, this is not the end but a new beginnings. We will all work together, with Gods grace and make its country again..

  6. Quint, I respect what you do but its stupid to play that caste-religion card here and at a time like this. Like u really had to ask that question. It would have made sense had it been in the North but not here!!!
    That man being a Keralite, I least expected that!!!

  7. India is a country of religions…how can people in the comment section claim that there should be no religion in the video….the names denote religion..their outfit denotes religion….and you say just don’t write the name of the religion…huh…people should be happy that every person in India is contributing ….no matter what their religion is…people should be proud that Christian people love here….My Goodness…how jealous people get even if someone helps

  8. Hello guys, This is Rahul Nair, I had covered the story. The reason I asked the question about people from different backgrounds was simply to highlight that Keralites do not differentiate when it comes to caste, creed, religion or gender. It was beautifully answered by Sister Rosenthal, and further established by the fact that my question irked you. My intention was to reflect the unity in calamity showed by all Malayalis who endured the natural disasters. Please keep your comments flowing. Thanks and cheers

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