Environmentalist God

I find it very hard to understand why one should have temples in almost every lane - 3 in our lane, in fact - because when people can take all the hardships and go to faraway places for pilgrimage, they might as well walk a mile to visit a temple once in a while. But I do recognise their value in preserving the greenery in our midst and I'm hoping they continue to score over the commercial interests at least till people genuinely want to have more trees.

I keep thinking of the mini-forest that we lived in when I was a kid. It had two Nagabana(snake god's forest)s and around them was a thick growth of all sorts of trees. We had so much to do everyday while moving through that stretch - smelling various flowers, eating wild fruits(I saw Renje tree in the palace premises last week and just made me so happy),collecting seeds and fancy leaves for our games and being on the lookout for snakes, of course. Now all that is gone and plots have come up in their place(must be houses by now) and roads for them. But a small portion still remains where no sun enters and it is surrounding the Nagabana. This is the story in many other places also and I'm grateful to the Gods for that. But for how long?

I want to reduce our plastic 'intake' this year. That would mean that I have to make more snacks at home and I have to learn to make them. Jai Ho!