Face the heat

 

Climate vulnerable Indian subcontinent that is home to millions of extremely poor and exploited people is facing the heat wave. It’s acute in big cities where millions live in congested concrete dwellings that faces the brunt of heat island effect and pollution. These are spaces that have been stripped clear of trees and vegetations while water bodies converted to disease spreading sewage for development. Very soon climate change will have to be declared as health emergency. Migration, exposed to extreme weather, malnutrition…will have devastating effect. There is a need for climate emergency cell to coordinate relief measures. Any concerned society would be investing on climate adaptive measures to save lives and salvage nature.

Earlier this month I was in Nagpur. Temperature crossed 42 degrees centigrade. Nagpur faces extreme heat but it rarely happens so early in the summer, elderly shopkeeper I was interacting with concurred and was sensing changes that he couldn’t comprehend. Even on morning walk I felt the sun as if it was scorching midnoon. You don’t see too many people on streets, mostly airconditioned cars whizzing past. Its like you are in some desert. I saw this man (pic herein) much earlier in the morning vigorously trying to wind up his chores before the heat picks up. He swept the dust off the concrete fragments of what was supposed to be a footpath. A meaningless task that he carried with Sisyphean enthusiasm. Why would you clean dust while contributing to particulate matter in the process making matter worse? I have seen these kinds of “cleanliness” in cities that defeats any logical reasoning. It’s an extension of value system of a society that obsessively delves in stupidities of purity lacking even basic understanding of hygiene. It’s the confluence of racist victorian tidiness and caste cannibals limited intellect that is exhibited into public space as revered ritual. Meanwhile mostly corrupt and mediocre decision makers are busy showcasing their blessing and lessons on fate for common people to emulate into painful absurdities denying life. The only cleanliness that matters is picking up and collecting plastics for recycle. Let the fallen dry leaves be. Let the dust be. Please do not give lessons on existentialism as fate. Ridiculous ironies will excite fattened fluffs in West to settle cozily into the narration of exotic Indian's otherworldly mystical mirth hence value their patronizing potential. Plastic pollution is a serious matter.                       

Threat to democracy

 

Democracy is the best form of arbitration. It hinges on evolved human beings for progressive society that values liberal ideas and expressions to associate and explore. For human beings to evolve education -that emphasis on critical thinking and logical analysis while nurturing creative minds spiritually involved with nature and life as a part of living system, becomes the lynchpin. A society that invests on these will naturally attune to better world.        

Anything that infringe on humanity is a threat to democracy. Anything that prevents assertion of being a human is a threat to free world. Religion therefore becomes a threat to democracy and all the evolved values and possibilities herein. The reason why some societies fail to nurture democratic values and ideals and are incapable to value individual liberty and equality is due to pernicious presence of feudal norms, patriarchy mindset and an incapacity to optimally use wondrous faculties of brain and senses. It is clear that religion creates frameworks that impede into progressive ideas. There is a valiant attempt to pose better version of religion to contrast the worst version in an attempt to wrest narration of religion into progressive space. Though noble it’s a futile attempt. It may help to control the herd into lull than fractious mob but its short term. Life has to be alive to thrive. Anachronistic religions have become serious threat to humanity hold ever minuscule chance of redemption. It’s a decaying premise. It’s an assault on human mind and demeaning billions of years of evolution of life to accept the ridiculous premise of religion and pose as progressive. It makes the best of intention hypocritical, and threatening.    

Butchery of Bucha

 There is enough evidence of crime against humanity, and nature. That this wanton massacre is happening in 2022 to a democratic and non aggressive nation shows gravity of human predicament. Meanwhile climate collapse and incapacitated greedy ego driven humans are scripting catastrophe.  

Support SriLanka

 

 We must make every effort to support SriLanka. The corrupt incompetent elite have created such a situation. This country was recovering from decades of mayhem. If Indian government creates fund for SriLanka we would like to contribute.