Global Warming

A Call from the Past

We all love the fables our grandmother used to narrate us. With all those tigers, rabbits and Jungle Mowgli doing us a favor by making us remember the essential human goodness – Goodwill for all. It’s now high time that we go back in time and remember all those stories of how animals did something [...]

We all love the fables our grandmother used to narrate us. With all those tigers, rabbits and Jungle Mowgli doing us a favor by making us remember the essential human goodness – Goodwill for all. It’s now high time that we go back in time and remember all those stories of how animals did something good to each other and abated evil in all forms. Today the evil resides in us. We are the villains today. We need to rethink our evil ways and bad behavior towards mother earth and need to assuage her from destruction.

Our ancestors had somehow managed to understand or sense the growing disrespect of the coming generations towards earth. And they very well devised ways in their own perspective to keep us from harming the Green Mother. There are many instances deep down in India as well as other communities’ tradition and religion that one way or the other point towards the mere fact that we need to save our mother. We’ll go through some very interesting ones today …!!

The Kathis and Bishnois Communities are habitats of Punjab, Rajasthan and Haryana are one of the most active environment enthusiasts till date in India. Their only point of importance is the Black Buck or the Kala Hiran, as it is called in India. They protect and take pride in this animal with great vigor and zeal. Salman Khan, a popular actor in India was convicted of poaching the Black Buck. These communities dragged this case for years until and unless the actor was acquitted of illegal poaching of the endangered species. For these regional communities, the Black Buck is like their own child. They relate them to their ancestors and many Hindu customs and rituals. It is believed that the ancestors of these communities held great importance in the preservation of flora and fauna for many known and unknown reasons. The communities still continue to obey them even today.

In Assam, there is a forest, which is very inbound and out of human reach due to high density of plants and animals that cover its land. Its not that the nearby human tribes didn’t try to reach in and use its rich resources but a fear that still lurks in their mind kept they at bay from the forest. According to the fairy tales to be believed that the older generation of these tribes narrates, some fairy godmother and their angel disciples protect that forest. The fairy godmother is popularly known as “VanDevi”. This Vandevi has given many evidences of its existence and the people there believe that curse and bad luck shall dwell over their coming generations if even a wood is touched. What is your response to this? The ancestors of the place have constantly tried to keep alive the fear and danger of this VanDevi to keep this wonderful, beautiful forest from destruction. Was it their sixth sense for the coming future or was it purely thought out plan for any other unknown reason? Nobody knows. Many rational people tried to get in but there are instances, as told by the people of no one returning back ever. The forest officials and government agencies tried to walk them in the forest with logic and reason but that seed of danger has grown into a vast deep rooted tree.

Our ancestors were already bewared through some divine force and they already worked towards it. The existence of such mysterious forces and out of the way love for plants and animals has created much difference in many parts of world. The world is at risk to dry out and choke. We have to be like the ones above. The fear of death and destruction should keep us at bay from destroying her. The Green Mother – Earth.