Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Concrete Nest

Well, it's been really really long since I blogged.

Saw something in the morning while I was on my regular morning walk which made me to think and write this.

I saw a crow with an iron "twig" in its beak. It probably misjudged the thin iron wire as a twig and was possibly going to use it to build its nest. Result? The nest would not be a comfortable one and might also hurt the chicks.

Yes, its all probability and hypothesis, but what I'm trying to say here is the disposal of these unused materials. There is no proper waste disposal system even in a city like Bangalore and neither are our schools interested in providing such social education which creates a sense of understanding about issues like these.

Coming back to the incident of the crow, we see such occurrences everyday where animals are affected due to similar acts. Cows and dogs eating plastic which has discarded food is a common sight. It's not that I'm not concerned about the earthlings who also get affected due to spreading of diseases, but me, being a nature-lover would be equally, or, to be correct, would be more concerned about animals who suffer due to human actions.

The waste disposal system of Bangalore, which has been in limelight in recent past, needs to be transformed. I might not be the correct person to provide a solution, without knowing the internal functionalities, but ultimately its the common man who suffers. We are unable to solve the problem of day to day waste disposal, I wonder what would happen of the waste that comes out or is coming out soon from the IT industry which Bangalore boasts of - the e-waste.

Not only the government, but its our duty to be a responsible citizen and help in keeping the environment neat and clean. It'll be foolish to mention about the do's and don't's here, we are quite mature enough to understand the basics. Lets be mature enough to understand others too. A request to all to please think about this when you throw anything anywhere.

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Bothered!!

A couple of things that have been bothering me since the last few days are the news articles that have been published in trh newspaper - TOI. These articles are not about the scandals or frauds, but are of rapes, terrorism and killings!!
TOI on 19th April'09 has an article - " Girl dragged out of train, gang - raped" and another - " Pak Taliban kill couple in public for 'adultery'". Both of the articles have one thing in common, the crime was done in the public. No one had the guts to either save the girl or the couple!!
Just think of this - 17 year girl being dragged from the general compartment and being gang raped. Is it the Swaraj that our indepedence fighters have thought of? Don't you think we were better when we were under British rule?

Another news articles which was publised on 18th April'09 as one of the headlines in TOI was about " Kasab", the terrorist who was arrested for the Taj blasts in Mumbai ( 26/11). It was written that the terrorist says he's a minor and is only of 17 years. Also, according to him, he was forced to write about the explosive contents that he had told in February. I agree that India is the largest democracy and the people have the right to seek justice, but does Kasab requires anyu justice in this case? He had been caught red handed firing indiscriminately at public and he seeks for justice! The real justice to him according to me would be to let public shoot at him or a much more cruel death.

Now questions to bother you - how can people live normal lives after reading so much? Why do they carry on their daily chores and never think about such things? Is it what we've been made for??