Has nature conspired against humanity or human has failed to live with nature!
- Monday | 24th August, 2020
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Has nature conspired against humanity or human has failed to live with nature!
- | Monday | 24th August, 2020
By D N Singh. It was evening but one doesn’t get to hear the sounds of bells and drums from the temples. The place was near Puri, in a village called Batamangala. The traffic was just skeletal on the highway.
It was evening but one doesn’t get to hear the sounds of bells and drums from the temples. The place was near Puri, in a village called Batamangala. The traffic was just skeletal on the highway. Breeze from the distant sea suddenly blew away the dark clouds that had gathered after the downpour in the afternoon and, the half-moon was in a literal fire through the coconut trees those lace the horizon in the front yard.
Barely it was an hour after the dusk and the village was bathed in a perplexing silence. Rarely there were some sounds of small vehicles and two wheelers, giving an impression as if the village occasionally overcame the somnolence due to the pandemic which has dulled the senses of humanity.
A sight that was, as if, tailored for the new history to be written after some years when human existence was constantly reminded of the misfortunes and warned about the ominous days ahead. And, sadly, it is all in the middle of the war against an invisible enemy with a medical armory which now appears battered by a lack of any clue situation.
It all appeared like a twilight meditation, broken by chirping of birds and an unusual chorus of Cuckoos and sparrows in the wee hours. Some bird and reptiles those who usually dare not come closer to human habitations, could be seen in the patios, recreating the nostalgia of few decades back.
Warning From Nature
Covid indeed has taken away a lot as each man or woman, despite being among many, feels alone. Next who or what, is the biblical fear chasing each one of us.
The immortal humidity, oceanic invasions, the treacherous power interruptions, the occasional menace of wild animals trudging into towns and at nights, the predatory insects accompanying the killer mosquitoes, it seemed as if the nature has really conspired against the human who has been abusing her for decades and decades.
With the masks on, we have been debarred from breathing oxygen free. Neither two cannot shake hands nor go beyond feigning a smile that is half-hidden, nor can you embrace each other anymore. Everything has gone digital, from wishes to condolences.
The fear has become so endemic that, even within a family a mutual willing suspension of fright has had impacts of multiple nature. Events like marriages are rare as the mirth of conjugal intimacy is under a shadow of unspoken self-doubts.
Posterity Scrambles For Freedom
A child is deprived of his usual quota of games and forced into a sedentary quiet at home after hours of online classes through smartphones. Imagine the impact on his or her eyes that must be worrying the guardians at home, who also face a battle against the misfortunes of health after the pandemic invaded.
What a price we have had to pay for a modernity in life which is not worth the freedom to inhale openly! Even social engineering has been set adrift in the quest of liberation from the traditional moorings.
A visit to the rendezvous places reveal a plight where hungry monkeys and rats have taken over to unite at rubbish heaps along with stray dogs to eat something.
Life seems suspended in between ‘positive’ & ‘negative’, two most invincible terms still invisible like the virus itself.
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