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Civilization has been a permanent dialogue between human beings and water
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Civilization has been a permanent dialogue between human beings and water

Dilemmas of Development
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Our monsoons are erratic, we need water for irrigation and for our thirsty cities. We need electricity for power starving villages and growing cities. Elsewhere a dam has been built with claims of '5th tallest dam on earth' . It has submerged the town of Tehri adding the prefix 'Old' to it.

At Deoprayag a graffiti says that Dam means the destruction of the hills. Another graffiti near the Ganga temple @ sangam says its the death of Ganga.

The Mahseer, which has migrated along the Ganges for thousands of years, can no longer take its programmed route. It’s an endangered species. Mr Sunderlal Bahuguna, the Gandhian activist who agitated all his life against the dam is a disillusioned man today.

There is a threat of earthquake looming strongly.

Experts say that development percolates, but when ....

Power and water to Delhi or Displacement of people in Tehri?

I guess, there is no clear demarcation of what is right and what is wrong? It’s a very thin, blurred line which keeps shifting with time.

Water: The Drop of Life
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Only 2.5% of the world's water is not salty, and two-thirds of that is trapped in the icecaps and glaciers. Of what is left, about 20% is in remote areas and most of the rest comes at the wrong time and in the wrong place, as with monsoons and floods. The amount of fresh water available for human use is less than 0.08% of all the water on the planet. About 70% of the fresh water is already used for agriculture, and a report says the demands of industry and energy will grow rapidly. The World Water Council report estimates that in the next two decades the use of water by humans will increase by about 40%, and that 17% more water than is available will be needed to grow the world's food.........

Rainwater harvesting in urban areas can have manifold reasons. To provide supplemental water for the city's requirement,it increase soil moisture levels for urban greenery, to increase the ground water table through artificial recharge, to mitigate urban flooding and to improve the quality of groundwater.

Mikhail Gorbachev, former USSR president once said ...........
"Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilization, people have moved to settle close to it. People move when there is too little of it. People move when there is too much of it. People journey down it. People write, sing and dance about it. People fight over it. And all people, everywhere and every day, need it."

Water, which gave life its first sigh can take its last breath as well.

Gods Own Country !


Watched an old India England match at 2 o clock in the night !!!


Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.

Alone, alone, all, all alone
Alone on a wide wide sea!
And never a saint took pity on
My soul in agony

Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.
S T Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

THORNS
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Dawn
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“Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream, And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived makes
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!”

Kalidasa

IHC, New Delhi
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Dedicated to Joseph Stein

S m i l e
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A smile costs nothing but gives much. It enriches those who receive without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None is so rich or mighty that he cannot get along without it and none is so poor that he cannot be made rich by it. Yet a smile cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away. Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give.

~Author Unknown

Sitting by your self
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THIS child needs your love,
this child sees himself in
mamas arms,
this child sings,
this child laughs,
this child cries, when your
sitting by your self.
THIS child sees your tears,
this child waits untill its
past.
this child sings,
this child laughs,
this child cries, when your
sitting by your self.
THIS child takes your hand,
this child leads you to a
chair.
this child sings,
this child laughs,
this child takes away your pain.

DAVID GERARDINO

Keep mooving ahead !
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He who is silent is forgotten;
He who does not advance, falls back;
He who stops is overwhelmed;
He who is out distanced is crushed;
He who ceases to grow, becomes smaller;
He who leaves off, gives up.

The moment you decide to stop in life,
its the begining of your end.
Keep moving ahead

Lady bird
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If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
E. O. Wilson

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to Heaven
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The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet.
A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and
intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with
every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how
many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives
-- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
John Burroughs

S m i l e
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Smiling is infectious,
You can catch it like the flu.
Someone smiled at me today,
And I started smiling too.


~Author Unknown

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