In a land where millions have not even heard the term Pastry (let alone savoring it!), do we really need a pastry-eating competition? Let profligate-nations resort to such insanity. Institutions and individuals in a developing nation as ours ought to think and act much better. As long as such insane competitions exist, there will be participants who would go to any extent to prove a thing or two.
It is really not worth a fig to lose one's life in such meaningless pursuits. The worst part is this is not the first time it has resulted in a mishap. The next time around, the organizers should have a stand-by medical unit. Even better, lets call for a ban on all such competitions and use the extras to feed a few million.
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Siddhartha Shan
Pastry eating competition eats techie's life
Thanks Siddhartha for the post. This indeed is very sad.
ReplyDeleteI fail to understand what organisers of such competitions gain. Instead of spending money on insane competitions (that too a pastry competition) it can be put to best use by feeding the hungry. It's disgusting to say the least.
Welcome Siddhartha. Nice Headline.
ReplyDeleteBut I am not astonished that the Techie died. Probably he never felt hunger. Our bare-bodied brothers would have ate as much and asked for more.
(By the by, what exactly is a pastry? I have an idea that it is something like a cake and tastes sweet).
Keep blogging, here and elsewhere. Let the creative juices flow! :)
Wish you well.
Regards,
There's nothing wrong in a pastry eating competition. If the MNC can afford it, then let them have it.
ReplyDeleteWhat should matter is that people do their job well. Where they eat, what they drink is their prerogative.
How many pastry eating competitions do you know? How many "death by pastry" do you know?
And there is no reason that any MNC should cut off its "pastry money" and lend it to the poor. They should pay their taxes fairly.
Feeding the poor and giving them money is not a solution. It's never a solution.
It was a sad happening, but of course feeding the poor is not a solution. It's an emotional comment, I would say.
ReplyDeleteWhat is painful in many such incidents is the ease with which a serious thing (such as human life, dignity, privacy and so on) is taken by people. This incident is apparently an accident, but there are so many other incidents like borewell trap deaths of children. We are hearing them so often, about young children slipping into open borewell pipes and being left to finish their breath in darkness, with vain efforts. There may be hundred other things to look in to by the people who are responsible, but human life is indispensable.
Kartikey and Siva, you are right. Feeding poor is not the solution. But then I feel spending money on such competitions is obscene when people elsewhere are starving. But then yes it's their prerogative.
ReplyDeletethe maximum time left to save a person chocking bcause of food is only 5 to 7 mins.
ReplyDeletestand behind them embrace his abdomen with clasped hands and push impulsively upwards 5 to 7 times. in most of the cases the food will come.
failing which push at the chest.
help hum aking the food out as he might be tired to do so.
for pregnant women only at chest and not at abdomen.
(timesnow tv channel)
Baskar,
ReplyDeleteuseful information. If the food doesn't come out despite your best efforts then place affected person on the floor. let the food not block oxygen from reaching the brains.
and never indulge in self-induced vomiting except in rare cases.
Regards.