Anna found a suitable place adjacent to our well for kitchen gardening during this season. We have had a good yield of beans, Brinjal, and ladies finger.
Apart from the usual green ladies finger, we had a plant which yielded red ones. This surprised us. All the saplings looked similar, but in few weeks, from the time, the flowers appeared we wondered if one of them was likely to yield red ladies finger.
Nature has its surprises.
What is even more surprising was that the green and red ones are similar in taste, at least for us.
What is common between them is more than the differences.
I suppose it is true of all of us. At this time of the national elections for the parliament, there is a focus on the differences between political parties, ideologies, and ethos. As I listen to the debates in the print and visual media, I get a sense of the similarities between the most national parties.
However in the recent elections, the greater emphasis is to highlight the differences and create a divisive attitude among people.
If governing the affairs of a state or a country to serve people and provide a healthy environment socially, financially, and, developmentally, which ought to be the purpose of polity, then even political parties can trust each other and wait for their turns to be in government.
But what seems to worry most of us is that some parties have an agenda of imposing a thought process and value system which threaten social harmony, personal freedom and communal fraternity!
The calling in polity of democracy is to usher in welfare to all!
M.C.Mathew (text and photo)
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