Thursday 12 March 2009

This land is your land – let it flood.

Land, other than atmosphere and water, is arguably the most obvious physical entity that connects heavily to the universe. Eventually it belongs to no-one, or inversely, everyone, and probably though its ownership is never affirmative stays with the affirmative.

I recall Bihar, then the Indian history, and now these recent contemporary times that it is the holding of this land that can be blamed as the root cause of all the conflicts; within the guise of being a thankful source of pride and food. This want to call the land his own has given the man a tendency to divide, and for which he even won’t hesitate the third time to kill, even within his family too. Some people will make use of the second chance to agree and then to migrate.

So, if a flood comes and submerges this land, isn’t it helping solve the problem in a way? The setback is that this water eventually drains to the sea.

2 comments:

PakaNaLinii said...

I wonder what you really had in mind... I mean, what recent event ignitioned those thoughts.

You say "this water eventually drains to the sea". So do you think constant flood would keep things so saying "normal"?

Bend said...

Hey Pole! nice to hear from you. The whole issue of 'floods' man gave birth to this philosophical thought – can be bent, that’s why I’ve got my blog titled as good-bend, … nevertheless let me try.

I have seen whether it is London, Mississippi or Bihar ( a state in East of India that gets flooded every year and hundred thousand get displaced) the floods create havoc by submerging things that comes onto the way of flowing waters. The losses - whether property, lives, livelihoods or businesses, are related to this ownership called 'the land'. In order to mitigate losses experts either build flood barriers or try to reduce various stakes on the land itself, except dealing with the land itself. But both these approaches have their own limitations. So, I eliminated this main thing called ‘the land’ itself and therefore the losses due to floods. No land nothing to worry about.

Do I clear you up?