The chaos, the pain, the grief, the loss was all topped by the apathy of the Aum members who believed their actions were justified because this was their path to salvation. It was an absurd incident that happens once every decade to remind people of their mortality and the failures of even the most perfect of administration. When the event happened, no one had expected it, and absolutely nobody was prepared for it. It takes inputs of the victims, the cult members, the railway administration, the police officers who were supposed to handle the situation and even the doctors. The book is written in chapters full of interviews trying to recreate the Sarin Gas Tragedy.
This book has individual interviews of the sarin gas survivors, families of non-survivors and even the Cult Members members who were involved in it or just part of Aum (the cult) while it happened.Īfter reading it, I realized what kind of impact a tragedy can have on a person’s life, even if they’re not directly in contact with it. Incidents like these leave a permanent mark on one’s psyche, and that is sometimes a bigger tragedy than the one they lived through.
But in reality, it has made a significant impact on that small group of people who lived it and even their family, friends, relatives who heard about and they could never return to their life of normality. As such, it is easier to forget about the impact that seems minute when compared to the already vast population. The whole representation of a tragedy is always so spread out that we can only look at it from a broad spectrum.
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