Another find. Looks like an earth worm? no.. it is one of the tiniest snakes.. belonging to the worm snake genera. Well, at first we have been thinking that it may belong to the blind snake (flower pot snake) group as it is tiny and burrows in the ground, but seems not to? Yet it must be within the worm snake genera. We found it while we were digging in the garden (now you know what else we were up to these days!). ~12cm length. It has a fascinating iridescent sheen and pattern on its body, which is more visible in the next shot.  

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Last weekend we had the Sapporo International Night and along with it a lot of group discussions on world heritage sites, nature etc. Our group discussed on nature, culture and civilization and how they can co-exist. I am not getting into all details of coexistence but just a single point.

Technology & happiness. Human civilization and technology has grown in a fast pace but are we happy? Some of the members said they feel life is more comfortable. Nobody said that life has become happier. We found that technology which has been developed to make life easier has in fact made life complicated and busier. One of the members said that unlike the past, now he can travel from place to place in few minutes/hours but life has become busier. Communication has improved, internet, mobile phones, have taken place in our lives but effective communication between people have decreased. We were all alarmed to face this fact that better technology doesn’t mean happiness. So is technology, instead of liberating us, holding us back?

Does it look like a painting? I like the overall tone. A bit far from earth, it doesn’t show much of human intervention other than the dam. but may be a dam is enough? Anyways the picture shows a lot of geographical features.. Took it on my flight from Delhi to Sapporo a few months before. So it must be somewhere close to the east coast of India.

Anyways, am happy about the warm hi-fi japanese toilets mentioned in the pervious post  More on it later!

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It takes millions of years for a species to evolve. It takes just a few moments for that species to disappear forever from the globe. The only reason.. The only reason being human beings. The only reason being I. The only reason being YOU.

I pity myself for my inability to cover my arms around the globe and protect it
My arms are not so wide
But  could do one thing
I could use your arms as well
No, it’s still not wide enough
Will you call someone else too?
Yes, if more and more join, we could do something!
We could cover the globe so that no green grass falls off it

Mother Earth held us to her breasts till now. Now she is weak and old. It’s our turn to show gratitude. It’s your turn.. Will you?

Somehow I feel bugged. There’re very few (is it so?) who take time for, or love, nature. Is it that they don’t have time to? Where’re you all heading to? Are you so much obsessed with your career and pride and money that you can’t stop a while to think of nature? Or do you think there’re some nature lovers, they’ll do it all? No yaar! It takes efforts from all to preserve every species we have now, every shade of green you’ve seen.

Actually, only a little time is left to repair. So what can we do? Hmm.. Let me think. With this single article, you won’t go out and stand for Kyoto Protocol or raise your voice to defend global warming, will you? You won’t go out and see whether your local government is giving out pesticides and poisons which go up the food chain and damage life on earth, would you? Yet I’ve to get something from you through this article. Otherwise it’s a waste of time for me and you. So what I think is to go into the basics. Know what, as I go up (or down, whatever the case may be) in my studies, one thing I get reminded of is to go to the basics. Hence here the best thing is to cultivate some memory or love for nature. Thatz why you see more nature photographs on this website than any other kind of photographs. All these birds, insects, butterflies are amazing to see! You just’ve to open your eyes. Life is not just you and dogs and cats. All these creatures you can see in your own environment. Even if you’re in a city, there’re zillions of creatures, other than you, thriving somewhere around.

Once you see them, once you see how beautiful it can be, I am damn sure you don’t need any more advise, you don’t need a lecture on the Kyoto Protocol. You’ll do your share of conserving nature. Well thatz all I mean. I hope you see it?

Anyways, let me tell you about something going around at my state Kerala in India. Pesticides and poisons are provided by the local govt/depts, which are used by the unaware public. These pesticides go up the food chain, affecting life at each and every level including the top (top how???) level, human beings. The issue was taken up by S. Chandrasekharan Nair, an activist who blogs on related issues. Most of us keralites who visit his blog have decided to stand with him and we’re trying to notify the Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy about this issue. If you can read malayalam, you are welcome to ente gramam, the blog.

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