The Hindu Editorial Vocabulary 30th January 2025

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Deaths after the surge: On the stampede at the Maha Kumbh

The kumbh stampede could have been avoided with better measures

The stampede at the Maha Kumbh in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh — the third such incident in recent months — confirms India’s dubious (doubtful, questionable) distinction of having the most number of deaths during religious gatherings. While the day’s developments have not yielded (produced, provided) conclusive (decisive, clear) reasons for the stampede that happened in the early hours of January 29, initial investigations suggest an uncontrolled surge (increase, rush) of devotees at the bathing ghats. The Uttar Pradesh government had estimated that a hundred million people would have their holy dips on Mauni Amavasya, an auspicious (favorable, fortunate) occasion which fell on January 29. According to government estimates, more than a third of those who were expected had performed the ritual early — 36 million people by 10 a.m. — despite temporary closures of the roads leading to Prayagraj after the stampede. This measure of regulating (controlling, managing) traffic into the city could have been proactively (actively, early) implemented, ensuring a steady and manageable stream (flow, progression) of devotees, as the government was well aware of a surge in numbers. The focus, unsurprisingly, is again on the lack of crowd management and the prioritisation (preference, favoring) of VIP visitors over the common man.

What has been even more alarming (frightening, disturbing) was the State government’s delay in formally announcing the fatalities (deaths, casualties) and those injured — 30 dead and over 60 injured — deviating (straying, departing) from established protocols of transparency during disasters. It is reminiscent (suggestive, similar) of the opacity (obscurity, lack of clarity) of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and his government after the widespread deaths during the second COVID-19 wave in March 2021, the scale of which was evident later when horrific images of bodies floating in the Ganga emerged. This is the sixth stampede in one of the Kumbhs in the past 70 years, an event that takes place every three years at one of four holy sites for Hindus, at Prayagraj, Haridwar, Nashik and Ujjain. While the reasons for each stampede have been different, they still point to either a lack of fire safety, crowd mismanagement and VIPs disruptions, or creaking (old, worn-out) infrastructure. They also indicate a post-facto (after the event, retrospective) treatment of the cause and a disregard for holistic (comprehensive, complete) planning. The State government has been most innovative (creative, resourceful) in managing the 45-day-long Maha Kumbh, with aerial surveillance and a tracking of mobile movements to monitor people. It is also an unprecedented (unique, unmatched) achievement to even attempt to handle a population, although transitionary (temporary, changing), that is twice that of Uttar Pradesh’s, between January 13 and February 26 when the Maha Kumbh ends. The Hindu had reported on the arrangements for the 65 kilometre temporary district around the Triveni Sangam, but the confluence (meeting, junction) itself is only about a kilometre in diameter, requiring constant vigil (watchfulness, alertness) and steady crowd management.

Hindu Vocab Wordlist 30th January 2025

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1. Dubious: feeling doubt or not being certain about something; not completely honest, or morally good.
2. Yielded: to produce or provide something, such as a result or an outcome.
3. Conclusive: showing that something is definitely true and cannot be doubted.
4. Surge: a sudden and large increase in something, such as the number or amount of something.
5. Auspicious: showing signs of success or good fortune.
6. Regulating: to control or supervise something, especially an activity or system, to ensure it works properly.
7. Proactively: done by taking action in advance to deal with an expected situation or problem.
8. Prioritisation: the process of deciding which tasks or problems are the most important and should be dealt with first.
9. Alarming: causing worry, fear, or concern.
10. Opacity: the quality of being difficult to understand or explain, or the quality of being hard to see through.

Hindu Vocab Master 30th January 2025 with Synonyms & Antonyms

Here are the synonyms and antonyms of all the difficult words in Hindu Vocab Master Hindi equivalents for all the words for 30th January 2025:

Word	Synonyms	Antonyms
Dubious	uncertain, doubtful, suspicious, hesitant	certain, confident, clear, definite
Yielded	produced, resulted, gave, provided	withheld, refused, retained, denied
Conclusive	definitive, final, decisive, unambiguous	inconclusive, indefinite, uncertain, ambiguous
Surge	increase, rise, upsurge, swell	decline, decrease, drop, fall
Auspicious	promising, favorable, lucky, fortunate	unfortunate, unlucky, inauspicious, ominous
Regulating	controlling, managing, overseeing, guiding	neglecting, ignoring, mishandling, disregarding
Proactively	aggressively, dynamically, energetically, preemptively	passively, reactively, tardily, slowly
Prioritisation	ranking, ordering, preference, arrangement	neglect, disregard, indifference, disorganization
Alarming	frightening, disturbing, startling, shocking	reassuring, calming, soothing, comforting
Opacity	obscurity, cloudiness, ambiguity, vagueness	clarity, transparency, lucidity, distinctness