In the name of Development

What will one tribe have to do, to save everything they know?

Mine, narrated by Joanna Lumley, tells the story of the remote Dongria Kondh tribe's struggle to protect Niyamgiri, the mountain they worship as a God. London-based mining company Vedanta Resources plans a vast open-pit bauxite mine in India's Niyamgiri hills, and the Dongria Kondh know that means the destruction of their forests, their way of life, and their mountain God.

What is the meaning of Development?

 Is it constructing  factories that exploit the wind, water, forests and all other natural resources?... Is it constructing roads that stops rain-water to seep into the ground and hence the drop in underground water-level?... Is it the building of dams which disturbs the ecological balance and cause flood in some areas while droughts in others?... Is it the deforestation in the name of expanding colonies again causing floods, decrease in amount of rain, drop in the oxygen content of atmosphere and so many other things?... Or is it the ever increasing use of  non-biodegradable products like plastics, that will take hundreds of thousands of years to degrade and in the process make the atmosphere unsuitable for human existence?


I'm really confused. At one hand I have the Mother Earth feeding us with all she has and asking nothing in return, and on the other hand is entire Human race. The most intelligent race this planet has ever seen which changes the course of events with the power of its mind. A race which guides itself to faster and swifter ways to accomplish what it thinks and what it needs... all this, along with ever increasing new inventions and discoveries. What all has this brought to us is in no terms explainable. But there is one thing that this evolution has been doing  is negligence. Negligence towards who we are, what we have been, what is the reason behind our existence and survival for so long, where our roots are still lying, looking at us from a far distance which is now almost unreachable.

Can't we find alternative ways? Ways which are more Eco-friendly. Ways which can halt this march towards self-destruction and which will help us lead towards a better tomorrow. Ways which will ensure that our children and their children will enjoy the love of Mother Earth in a similar way we are enjoying now. I believe we can find them... after all we are the best minds ever existed...

Broken Soul

Who am I?... yes, who actually am I ? or rather I should ask you the same. Do you really know who you are? Ever imagined what makes me "me" and you "you"? What is it that makes "me" creature different from "you" creature?

I do not know if "me" creature sees, smells, feels this world the same way as "you" creature dose. Is my "red" color same as yours? No seriously, when we were kids, we were taught what to call a particular shade irrespective of the fact that the shade might appear different to us than the to one who is teaching us. And now that we are grown up, we never give a damn whether it is the same shade that everyone else sees it. Oops... forgot to mention that I'm a colorblind (well that definitely makes my "red" different from yours... LOLz).

We are so fucking same yet we are so fucking different (don't pardon my language as I mean every word I say) !!! Can you feel "my" happiness as happily as I feel it or rather can I feel "your" pain as painfully you feel it, no matter how hard I try to console you and try to make fool out of myself by telling you that everything is gonna be okay even if we know it can't ? Why can't I feel the joy "you" feel even when we do an adventure together ? Why can't "you" creature feels the same anger that "me" creature feels when both lose something in common ?


What is it that separates "me" from "you"? After all, we are born the same way and end the same, leaving behind the very body that we have similar, and the only one too. Apart from this, you can never be "me" and I can never be "you".

They say that apart from our physical attributes we have a soul inside each one of us. This very soul, I think, is behind and between "you" and "me". Soul is what drives our body. Our body is no more than a junk machine without it, that will corrode away if it loses it's driver. Soul or 47-grams, what scientists have identified it as, is there in you and me separating "us" from each other. Even a child can't be exactly same as either of its parents in feelings.

Sometimes I feel we are all made of a single... very same... Broken Soul...