This wonderful picture from www.lalanet.gr.jp



actually reminds me of my home, when we were at korba, near bilaspur , chattigarh. I was small then ..class 1 i guess...and we had huge trees behind or house.....andthey were safe it seems. Because i remember spending time over there alone. And one of those big giant trees, someone had put a swing ,,a crude one, made my just tying a tyre with a rope and tying the rope to a brance ...

and i dont remember a time when , i saw sunlight over there...and it was so cool..ya, we didnt have a lake over these ,,,as it is inthe above picture...

but i am missing that place today . so much... and i am wondering how many small ecosystems are surviving in there. Atlease 10,000 small creature were there in that bunch of trees....under the shades of the trees ...too good....

Well, the story of Easter islands is certainly very disturbing. I think, PG sould incorporate this somewhere in the course. It could serve as a perfect example of all that he has been professing all through the session.

The easter island is a parable for us to learn from.Analogy can be drawn from the island in a vast ocean and our earth, like an island in the universe.

Easter Island is tiny, and it represented a small closed system. Over time, it can be said that , the closed system, under depleting reserves would eventually decline. However, the islanders perspective towards his environment is not very diferent then our own attitude towards our surroundings.

Therefore i say, its story with a MORAL.!!



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This E from : www.plannersweb.com/planning-abcs/


Easter islands are probabaly too small,, but i think on an island as small as Easter, it was easy to see the effects of the deforestation as it was taking place. But the inhabitants continued their destructive actions. Rituals were developed to sanctify the continue and justify the exploitation of resources of the resources. The right to these resources was competetive and was grantd through a race. They prayed to their gods for their well being

They saw things were going bad, and they prayed ..but the trees ..they continued cutting them down. The results were reasonably predictable.

asaid in the BBC report i have pasted earlier, the person who felled the last tree could see that it was the last tree. Nonetheless, he (or she) still felled it.*

I think this is the scariest part of the story. Knowing the consequences of your actions....but still continuing it..It is so much like our own world. We know , where are all of our Ambivallies, and mega corporations and this race to cities taking us all...but still we continue.

The majority of people are too busy to take notice....they are simply not concerned!. They dont kind cutting down the last of the trees..and create another easter island of our times...i hope we wake up soon.



Are they responsible? or us? this pic from www.thebig.tripot.co.uk

This E from :http://www.niehs.nih.gov

Bharat ek khoj,,,one serial that i admired a lot. And llooking back ..i like the title song too...
something about this song that appeals to me,,maybe the way it was sung...or the music..dont know..but it does appeal..



I think all the primitive religions were in some way or the other, connected with nature so much that they saw everything as a continuation of each other. I dont think that the title track of Bharat ek khoj is something which belongs to hinduism. I think its different from hinduism. Not related at all to it.

i think , it speaks of some kind of wisdom,,,which PG referred in the class.



some thing primitive about the song ,,i think i cannot put it in words....its definitely not like the religion we know today.


Lot of talk about the sun, water, air , earth etc in the song..my favourite line in this song is..'us pal to agam, atal jal bhi kahaan thaa'...

and the way it has been composed!! its simply marvelous.. not heard of vanraj bhatia ,,but it seems he is wonderful.




Srushtee se pehle sat nahin thaa, asat bhi nahin
Antariksh bhi nahin, aakaash bhin nahin thaa
chhipaa thaa kyaa kahaan, kisne dekhaa thaa
us pal to agam, atal jal bhi kahaan thaa

Shushtee kaa kaun hain kartaa
Kartaa hain yeh vaa akartaa
Oonche aasmaan mein rahtaa
Sadaaa adhyaksh banaa rahtaa
Wohin sach much mein jaantaa..Yaa nahin bhi jaanataa
Hain kisi ko nahin pataa
Nahin pataa


Voh tha hiranya garbh srishti se pehle vidyamaan
Vohi to saare bhoot jaat ka swami mahaan
jo hai astitvamaana dharti aasmaan dhaaran kar
Aise kis devta ki upasana kare hum avi dekar


Jis ke bal par tejomay hai ambar
Prithvi hari bhari sthapit sthir
Swarg aour sooraj bhi sthir
Aise kis devta ki upasana kare hum avi dekar

Garbh mein apne agni dhaaran kar paida kar
Vyapa tha jal idhar udhar neeche upar
Jagaa chuke vo ka ekameva pran bankar
Aise kis devta ki upasana kare hum avi dekar

Om ! Srishti nirmata swarg rachayta purvaj rakhsa kar
Satya dharma palak atul jal niyamak raksha kar
Phaili hain dishayen bahu jaisi uski sab mein sab par
Aisi hi devta ki upasana kare hum avi dekar
Aisi hi devta ki upasana kare hum avi dekar