Market melts on global cues, monetary policy fears,Ford India gets aggressive on small cars,Cane farmers blame Pawar for sugar crisis are few of the main headlines which managed to catch the attention of journalists,businessmen,reporter,editor &
finally the reader & its me - on Jan 28 2010.If I look back at my car journey for the entire year,& the newspaper reads the same news throughout the year blaming someone else, same news with different persons or different companies, with slightly
different figures and of-course different dates. But the matter & the essence will be the same. Stock market melts, sometimes bounces back, one celebrity today had an affair, the other next day;richest man is someone today, someone else has taken his
position some other day,biggest blockbuster of the year, highest international grosser breaking all time records,all of them,all the news pieces are same throughout the year adding more garbage in-terms of information & also newspapers.Only three persons have benefited because of this news, one the person who was published in the paper got instant fame or hogged limelight for whatever reasons, second the publisher & the third the newspaper seller who sold this newspapers today made some buck & earned his living for today. I am really not benefited by any such information directly for years.
I apologize if I hurt sentiments of people who are avid newspaper readers & the publishers too who by their perspective are enlightening the society by providing the right information to the common man. My motive is not being critical of the
publishing industry. At times when I really am not interested in reading rather the right word I use is "browsing" the newspaper, I happen to peek out my window and gosh- What I see! Beautiful green lush fields with glossing sun rays reflecting from the waters of some fields and the huts acting with dual purpose as Home and security for the paddy fields. I see few workers planting the saplings, and some of them spraying the fertilizers in the early morning. These workers make the most of the day by starting early in the morning & breaking from the job early in the evening & spending the most valuable asset called LIFE with FAMILY. The landscape is covered with full of green plants & I can find the all the shades & textures of green which I can imagine of! wow !!
As I am getting mesmerized by the greenery, few intermittent real estate plots & their signboards put brakes to my dreamlike drive. Suddenly I am brought back to normalcy and soon after few more yards I can see beautiful coconut farm just beside the main road making me envy of the owner.If I had such a beautiful farm, I would sleep in the farm & have bed coconut water every morning instead of bed tea or bed coffee! The power with which this sight is pulling my imagination is overcome by a
sudden brake applied by my driver & What I see, a farmer suddenly crossing our car with towel as his pagdi(turban) & is driving his bike wearing a lungi. How close I am to nature and how true form of people I am seeing. I am privileged to have seen such sights & I thank god for that. I am really fed up of seeing the artificial smiles, hypocritical faces & plastic nature in the metro cities when I used to stay the first 25 years of my Life.
Nature is raw, people are true & I am lucky.This half an hour has completely taken me to a different world like the Alice in wonderland. If that was not enough as my summer pleasure, rainy season here in Nellore took me to heaven. The sight was much more beautiful with drops of rain falling in bundles & thick black clouds covering almost whole region with no sight of a sun ray.For the next 10 KM the sight is same and a pleasant surprise awaits .I see ray of light at a distance & slowly the intensity of rain disappears in the next 10 KM stretch.I realize that in this part, there is not a single drop of rain. And far away ahead 10 KM roughly, I can see the thick black clouds pouring the waters like cats & dogs & I wish I had been in school, I tried giving this precise reason of rain to bunk it and stay at home. Alas I am grown slightly big enough that I cannot use such reasons.
Anyhow what makes me wonder is such a beautiful experience I never had in my life in a metro city or simply realized a little late in my life. I remember I used to enjoy rain, seeing the drops continuously falling, small river like flow of water gushing out of gates & the paper boats I used to make along with my brother in childhood. What I did then was simply peeked out of the window always, when it rained and today I realize how less I do that!
Santhosh Kumar.
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