A teak tree is strong. But it also can give in to wind or mechanical pressures that comes upon it! It life is cut short and a tree becomes timber.
A tree has life, protects lives of birds and gives shelter to smaller plants and bush!
When its life is over it might burn as firewood or become timber for furniture, door posts. doors, windows. In that sense a tree lives on!
A tree lives longer than its tree life!
For all of us this is a thought worth pursuing!
About twenty three people have died in violence in New Delhi in the last three days on account of clash between two groups of people!
For those who have left us, I wonder how the families would face their future especially if he or she was the only earning member of the family!
How they would be remembered! What do they leave behind! Victims of violence! Or as those who laid their lives down protesting against the recently introduced Citizen's Amendment Act which threatens to change the profile of citizenship!
I agonise over this! In a civil society should a citizen suffer violence and death when he or she protests about a civil law which seems to alter the character of citizenship! Should not the government hear out the thoughts and feelings of people!
A tree has fallen! That itself is a loss! How much more and deeply disturbing is the loss of human lives!
M.C.Mathew (text and photo)
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