A road to perdition

This is ridiculous. How the hell one can build a road to Everest? And look at the reason for doing it... China wants to create world's most far reaching Olympic torch... And they find Mount Everest as the god damn place to prove their madness. How enlightening!!! isn't it? I probably feel the eternal or divine bliss when that light goes over my house. It will be like being in heaven, isn't it? But who cares ? China is notoriously known for its leaders and their ambitions . And they are right, why should they care about environment and all? They are not going to get affected anyways. Because today we are least bothered about the nature. What we bother about is everything else than nature . We bother about our career, our job, our salary, our so called FUTURE. In the rush of pursuing our materialistic goals, we are degrading the nature, which is in fact the most influential factor of the life on Earth.

History has shown it thousands of times, that whenever a human goes to any place which is naturally blessed earlier, he makes a hell lot of wastes there. And still we call a human as the most intellectual animal on Earth. God's masterpiece. Such a pity. We go for trekking with lots of plastic bags and we throw them anywhere in spite of knowing that plastic is not naturally decomposable. Similarly, China wants to build a road to Everest to make a showy display of their abilities. The abilities of crushing the rules of nature. And India is no different. Look at what we did with the lovely Badrinath in Uttarakhand? It used to be a pure place with not a tinge of pollution, and now we made it our home. A home of unmanageable people and lots of wastes.
And the saddest thing is even though we know that we are messing up with the ecology, we keep on doing the same. Imagine how pristine Ganga would have been in her early ages? How calm and clear would have been the bays of Bengal, the Arabian Sea?

It is not unknown that we will be facing a monster of Global Warming in the upcoming century. And if we keep on doing the stupid things , one day we will have to say a final good-bye to this lovely world. China and India both will be suffered from the preposterous idea of building the road. Here is what experts say...

Syed Iqbal Hasnain, senior fellow at the Centre for Policy Research and a renowned glaciologist, said, "Such an idea should be condemned outright. A road in an area like that can completely change the ecosystem dynamics. Glaciers are super fragile systems. If indirect impacts of warming can be seen so dramatically, such a direct human intervention would be dangerous for the Himalayan ecosystems in the areas the road goes through. Even in Alaska, the government refuses to build a second road despite people being there, because everyone realises what a road can do to such habitats."

He added,
"Already, there are reports of problems in glacial melt-based rivers in China suffering flooding, and India too has its share of problems from global warming. A road is like a direct attack on ecology. You have to put up the entire set-up to run such a high-altitude link. At present, people talk of removing debris & waste from the base camp and surrounding areas and now this shall completely change the dynamics

Right now I am searching for the ways by which I personally can protest this decision of building a road. Finding out some online petitions which I can fill. Do let me know if I can do something in this regard. After all, we must shoulder a share of our responsibility to protect the mother Earth.

शत जन्म शोधितांना

I was in my home-town, Nagar, before two weeks. I generally don't watch much of the television, but that day I planned to see French Open-2007 men's final between Fedrer and Nadal. So just switched on the TV. There came and advertisement of "शत जन्म शोधितांना" on ETV- Marathi, and I decided to watch that program.


शत जन्म शोधितांना - सावरकरांच्या अलौकिक प्रतिभेचा शोध was arranged by Maharashtra Military Foundation. As the name of the program suggest, it was an attempt to look at Savarkar from a perspective of a poet. I have gone through some of his poems earlier and was aware of his thoughts. So, this was another treat for me. The specialty of the program was its simplicity. There were no high-class instruments, neither a flashy display.

For the first time I heard a लावणी ( Lawani, a type of Marathi folk dance ) written by Savarkar. He is generally known for his patriotic songs and his revolutionary thoughts on Hindutva but on that day I was seeing another unseen side of one of the greatest legends of all times. He has even written some romantic poems, in midst of hardships when he was deported to Kalepani (Black Water) jails of Andaman-Nicobar. He has also written some of the plays in Marathi. As one of the scenes of a plot, Nina Kulkarni was reading dialogs of a mad woman who comes to Madhavrao Peshwe and asks him to take the revenge of Panipat's defeat. Followed by that, there was a पोवाडा ( In Maharashtra, the narrative hero laud is called as Powada, where a person tells a story in high pitched voice. A melodramatic acting is a soul of a Powada.) In all, it was a great experience to see that event.

I am currently searching for some of his poems and posting them here...