I found this unusual sight in the jackfruit tree in our garden. Some fruits are resting on the ground. Most of the Frits are hanging in the stems supported by its strong stalk as seen hit photo below !
It is not common for a jackfruit tree to bear fruits at its bottom part of the stem making the fruits rest on the ground!
It is a surprise sight to watch in our garden!
While discussing it with our gardener, he suggested that it is on account of the top portion of the main stem which was pruned last year to arrest its leaning upward growth. Having been denied upward growth, it is adjusting to a different way to bear fruits!
This is a 'responsive behaviour' of a tree to give more fruits although pruned, denying its upward growth! When hurt, a tree responds by giving more!
The history of war in Gaza originates with a 'retaliative behaviour' of Israel to terrorists killing Jews about twenty months ago. Israel dragged the USA to support its retaliative attacks, which spread to Lebanon and Iran. Now it has become a 'third world war', although some nations would like to avoid seeing it as a world war.
Violence begets violence, which I thought is a 'barbaric' habit! I recall how the post second world scene was a season of negotiation, pursuing peace and promoting cross continental engagements for climate control, health promotion and economic collaboration!
The recent behaviour of some nations is an anticlimax to this norm that allowed multilateral co-operation between nations with a few exceptions!
Now retaliatory behaviour is the norm!
The Truth and Reconciliation commission of South Africa which its president late Nelson Mandela appointed with Archbishop Desmond Tutu as its chairman was an eye opener in resolving racial intolerance of several decades. The polarised position of two communities got resolved by a peaceful process of listening, discerning and forgiving ! In fact it, it was a historic way of bringing national integration and reconciliation.
I wish the leaders of the USA and Israel would draw their lessons from this reconciliatory process and withdraw from using violence to pay back violence! That does not align with a humane view of difficult situations!
The jackfruit tree produced more fruits when it was pruned or 'hurt'! It expresses its 'giving' habit even by giving its fruits from the lowest part of the stem!
Let me wish that the nations of the world would awaken to believe that it is in giving, we upbuild and uphold each other!
I wish that the leaders of nations would consider that violence and war are evil responses, but negotiations and consultations are civilised behaviours!
That is the message that I pick up from a pruned Jack fruit tree in our garden which has more fruits in this year !
M.C.Mathew (text and photo)
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