Fourteen Eleven is celebrated as children's day in India. Tragically it(1411) is also the number of tigers left in India . I often wonder what kind of legacy are we leaving for the future. Will we be leaving any at all? What role does mankind have to play as an evolved species. For what do we owe an highly evolved intellectual faculty? Is mankind supposed to be a cold blooded sophisticated predator with an insatiable hunger to kill without any provocation or cause?
It's high time India realizes the havoc it's ever burgeoning population is causing.
We need our country to be as beautiful as our National song Vande Mataram depicts it to be. It is possible, but will take a concerted effort from both the individuals as well as the government.
"Save the Tiger" campaign should not look at the tigers in isolation. We have to introspect and look at how we can reduce the consumption of natural resources.
At individual level I think people need to shift to a more vegetarian way of life. By vegetarian way I do not want to restrict to what we eat, but also what we wear. The next time you lay your eyes on the exotic leather wallet/belt/shoe, pause for a while and think before you buy it.
Companies should not look down upon employees if employees start turning up in sneakers. At the end of the day its the quality of work which matters and not the clothes someone wears. Companies should encourage casual dress code.
Civic authorities should realize their role as town planners seriously. We need to penalize people who crave to dwell in independent houses/bungalows. Living in apartments/multi-storeyed buildings reduces the geographical span of a city. It also makes planning way simpler. Make public transport affordable and practical.
Tier 2 cities like Bangalore have not learnt anything from the experiences of metros. The public transport in most of these cities is unreliable,expensive and use non-CNG vehicles.
As a fiscal policy it's high time the government removed the subsidy on Petroleum-products. The prohibitive prices will drive down the demand for petrol, create demand for products consuming alternate/clean energy. As the demand for petroleum products decrease the prices will go down.
We need to realize that Tiger as the king of jungle is not of mere symbolic importance. It will accelerate the vanishing of forests. Without forests our country will cease to exist as we know. We will be a vast barren desert. Save the Tiger, Save INDIA.
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