Lotus God
Cry beloved Hindus
Cause you lost your voice
Amidst the barbarian horde
We are few that survived
Some of us out of many
Only dared to fight
To them the fate that befell
Was truly a gruesome sight
As the throat was slit
With daggers cruel to slice
Cuts, piercing flesh so prime
Allah was avenged to delight
Arise, awake be counted right
for secular slumber is a blight
Weld, unite to congeal tonight
Motherland wants souls alight
Never
imagined we would be all cooped up in our homes since 22nd March 2020
when the Prime Minister announced the ‘Janata Curfew’. It was priming us to act
voluntarily what the Govt. eventually enforced afterwards looking at gravity of
the situation worldwide. Now here I am roaming about in my house doing all
household chores which I loathed to do. It’s a surreal feeling of living in
dystopian world where humans are caged and nature returns back with a
vengeance. With sparrows & itinerant sundry birds making an appearance on
my balcony it’s me who is inside while they are flying free. We frequently come
across a doomsday scenario in movies & novels and I must confess that this
pandemic has made us realize the fallibility of human nature. We are eating
beyond our means and in the process endangering flora & fauna of Mother Earth
that’s unreplenishable and this reminded me of the movie Avatar where human are
trying to destroy balance of nature in a faraway moon of Pandora. Its human
avarice and lust to satisfy our taste buds & olfactory nerves that has
unleashed a number of pathogens like the recent Covid-19, H1N1, HIV/AIDS just
to name a few.
As it is human nature
to survive I believe we will overcome this adversity too but with many people
across the globe having to pay with lives unfortunately. This pandemic has
forced us to rethink our lifestyle and the world will be a different place once
this scourge recedes. All countries are in turmoil now with world economy in a
tailspin and will take years to stabilize. Health and hygiene has suddenly
become of paramount importance and I am reminded of the simple but scientific
lifestyle of our forefathers. Footwear were to be always kept outside the
house, on coming from outside one had to take a bath and put the clothes for
washing, fasting was an regular affair to allow body systems to rest while
Namaskar was a way of greeting and human activity coincided with the path of
life giving Sun. It’s time we return to our roots & reclaim the wonders of
our civilization that is unchanged and unexplored
