[Reader-list] A possible thin thread!

[inder salim]

sadly, this is an exception.

presently people from hills are lured by the speed of plains,
in Himachal Pradesh they call ' chapta kardo ' flaten it' so that we
are quickly connected to  cities.

this approach to life has come to us  because of various reassons, we know ....

Simple living was once a 'thought'  ( not necessarily Gandhian ) but
some instincitive reasoning to live.... that has perhaps given way to
some urbanized glossy way of living,

perhaps we have still some time to think...


love

is



On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 2:01 PM, S. Jabbar <sonia.jabbar at gmail.com> wrote:
> Lovely!
>
>
> On 8/26/08 11:52 AM, "Jeebesh" <jeebesh at sarai.net> wrote:
>
>> dear All,
>
> Recently a friend who is in journalism recounted an encounter.
>
> He
>> went to find out about the land acquisition conflicts in Himachal
> on account
>> of a big skiing resort that is being planned there.  He was
> among many
>> claims and counterclaims. What strongly stayed with him as
> a puzzle was an
>> old man of about 90 years. He gently said that he does
> not see the urgency
>> to move from where he is now. On being asked why,
> as the compensation
>> package was good, he explained that the
> "dhoop" (warmish sunlight) that he
>> is used to for last 20 years in the
> patch where he sits everyday will
>> disappear from his life and that he
> is not keen to loose it.
>
> Now my friend
>> was a bit bemused by the response. It may not come into
> his manifest account
>> of the troubled times but had definitely arrived
> at him as a life long
>> puzzle.
>
> I was trying to understand this strange presence in my friend's mind
>>
> amidst stories of violence and injustice, which he has been
> encountering in
>> his travels within India.
>
> In a landscape overflowing with language of scorn,
>> the gentle remark
> of the man takes our mind to another way of thinking.
>> Elevare.
> Raising. In our culture we have an abundance "tollere" (to take
>> away).
> And Tollere without Elevare is a life gone
>> dry.
>
> warmly
> Jeebesh
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