WULAR LAKE .. A HERITAGE THAT WE FAILED TO PROTECT.
( Photo Autar Mota )
Isn't Human greed creating new Value system? The values of
utility and expediency are gradually taking over the age old values of
Tradition , culture and heritage .Probably we appear to be driving out
Compassion and empathy using values of usefulness and convenience .Do we need
to revisit our present Value system that is being cultivated unknowingly for
the posterity ?
Our value system remained with us like Fresh air , pure water and natural
greenery .So essential for continuance of order in life on this planet . Unless
revisited , maintained , replenished continuously and adequately , this vital
resource that nourished our Social fabric for thousands of years , may be
extinct very shortly . Whom should we blame now for our own neglect and
carelessness ?
Are we becoming rag pickers who look only for utility value of
an object that they come across?
Noted kashmiri Poet Farooq Nazki has something to say indirectly. I quote
his latest poem . While this poem apparently conveys the fury of floods that
Kashmir witnessed in 2014 , it also hints at something serious that affects all
of us .
I have rendered the poem to simple English for friends who
do not understand kashmiri ..
( Poem Number Zero )
Mey yathh dhoejji pyath Aaes achhar zaan karmaetch
So zaaejikh.
Kalam auos ropp sundh kunzz ‘a Trung Banovukh...
Mey ouss dooen haetchi hundh seathaa pro’n table....
su ouss daaeri saetein,
Dubbi nish sajaavith.....
khorow taell mey yeli Aayi veathh,
Aab yeli kho’t,
qalam.. Dhooejj.. Table,
souruy tro’w Aaban,
Magar kooda waalleiv
Deutus nakh Ta sombrukh Ta sorukh,
Ba go’sakh maeshi’thh ,
Ba laga haa’r maa Chh’uss...
( Farooq Nazki )
( Poem No Zero )
They burnt the wooden slate,
Upon which ..
I learnt my first alphabets.
The silver pen I used to write with,
They made a key ring of it,
My old walnut wood table,
That lay gracefully near the window of the overhanging enclosed Balcony,
preserved since long;
But that day,
When the waters of Vitasta barged in underneath my feet,
And up and up rose the water,
The remains of that pen, wooden slate and the table,
Got lost ...
There came the Rag pickers ,
Picking up the salvage,
Tracing and collecting all from that debris,
They forgot me,
For them ,
A worthless entity,
That I remain.......
( Autar Mota )
CHINAR SHADE by Autarmota is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India License.
Based on a work at http:\\autarmota.blogspot.com\.
Thanks Emmanuel..
ReplyDelete