Steering India towards a Fully Sustainable Future
Taru Shakti Utsav
PLANTing Fiesta - An initiative to bring better and long life
Festivals are the cue to unite the feelings of happiness and harmony in a secular country like India. A florist festival ‘Phool Walon Ki Sair, is one of the examples. Can there be a festival to religiously adopt a sapling to bring a new plant home and take care of it until it grows well to choose a deeper soil support. Plants are outdoor living beings and hence every family should transplant their adopted living member to the nearest public places like parks, roadsides, highways to nurture the travelers. The destined plant should have an exclusive number tag and name tag of the family it belongs to. Whereas not only the members but their many generations will care for such many plants that will be adopted by a family. The idea to bring a new plant home every year and transplant the previous plant to an outdoor space is to bring connectivity and emotional efforts between the family and the plants. Just imagine! The number of plants that can be planted every year by numerous families.
Pollution is one outcome that we have created ourselves which is irreversible. We can’t bring back those lost fireflies blinking around the bushes in the nearby local parks of New Delhi. That must have been a wonderful time when children used to swing on the branches of the banyan trees. Every land building which can be seen today must be a tree bearer for the past homes. Otherwise, What are the possibilities that the great author Rabindranath Tagore narrated ‘The Champa flower’. This is a feeling, a connection, a homely feeling that the children of those eras had with nature's defenders. Not the bricks bring up the strength in humans, it must be the shared strength that a plant synthesized from sun and soil. This charged energy is transfering the strength to hold ourselves as mankind. Shouldn’t it be our united responsibility to pursue nature surrounding, the most important green cover along with modern wires and cables.
I value every word that is presented, as a young published author I feel my responsibility to draw attention to save the dying green cover of the air polluted cities. ‘
Nature's Pleasure’ my short story published in Imagination Takes Flight indicates the same benefits. I should buy many fascinating products easily available in the market, the so-called air-purifiers. But can I swing on them? Can I climb and sit on their laps? If I cannot hug them then what's the point of filtering lungs with non friendly paid products! Efforts to better the air quality should be natural and free for all. Yes! It needs effort to grow at least one plant every year by every one who shares the same air quality.
Capital of India recently holded the G-20 summit and it was the government's efforts that has been seen to decorate the heart of the country with green planters everywhere. The idea of adopting a plant and placing it in a suitable place can only be possible with the government’s joint efforts. It has no cost but raised the value to sustain the natures green cover.
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