Until not long ago it was The Jungle book and The Lion King who ruled the forest. The lion would dictate terms except in books like Animal Farm where even pigs could have a say.
With their nimble gallops they would attack the prey and gorge with all theirb kin was the humble image in my mind. We looked at the lion with awe and would like him to be in the jungles and our memories. But now we have flaunted them in our zoos making them appear as if they were not captives and lived in their abode as always although humans coded them numbered them and watched every movement the lion could never think of.
The worst is all those TV channels who feigned innocence of protecting them, watched, filmed and tamed them. They even shot movies of counter attacks on lions by the wild buffalos caring for its kind and a herd of elephants protecting its infant. The lions were helpless and retrieved to my dismay.
Innocence once existed: The simplicity and purity of thought and giving.
India still remains a paradoxical country with reference to its demography. On one hand you have tall sky scrapers on the other there are slums. The forefathers of these slum dwellers were innocent migrants from various parts of India who came to make two ends meet. The present generation somehow have a genetic changeover of two generations as well as the education they have partaken and who understand life beyond simple measures of the value of their homes or the standard of living since TV’s and Fridges have become a part of life and affordable. Thus innocence which had remained in the masses and who came from agricultural background (who came from close to nature) has been waning in the two or three decades like never before.
Innocence is being gradually taken over by education but yet there are innocent people around us. This is to be taken as universal innocence a characteristic one inhibits at birth. Some of us are more wise than others and it could be said that some of us more innocent than others. Although the number of innocent is waning it is also a pure form of humanity. The wicked may want to have the innocent for them to be used but humanity needs innocence to sustain itself. The innocent can look at the world without wearing lenses.
Holocaust/doomsday theories:
As a boy the scariest part of living was the Indo Pak war of 1964. Pasting newspapers on windows to avoid light getting outside the house so that the enemy planes won’t see the city below (the government need not have to bother about blackouts). Hiding yourself below benches (as we were then trained to do) in schools when a hotter installed in all localities went louder. I then kept thinking whether this was the end. Wouldn’t we live to see the beautiful life laid in our future? But now I am sure nothing can destroy this earth. No holocaust, no doomsday as all these theories were propagated through a scare. The earth is capable of surviving on its own. It is designed to! Whatever the circumstances! Let countries have nuclear warheads, let there be terrorism, let there be religious dogmas or let there be a divide between the rich and the poor we are here to remain forever.
Cities will burst at their seams:
They have already burst. Mumbai, Dubai, New York have traffic jams where people are struck hours on end. A citizen new to Mumbai will not be able to board and alight a suburban train at peak hours. If this is not bursting what is! More vehicles are offloaded on to the roads everyday in all megacities of the world without bothering to add equivalent length of roads. People and government are not ready to accept that the cities are so overcrowded the meagre footpaths are not sufficient to walk, the pressure and tension to cross these roads is so immense that they just cross without bothering about their lives but don’t complain and even if they do it is so superfluous.
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