Monday, August 18, 2008

ಅಲೆಗಳು

ಅಲೆಗಳು ನಿರಂತರ
ಒಂದರ ಹಿಂದೆ ಇನ್ನೊಂದು.
ಕಟ್ಟಿದೆ ಗೋಡೆಗಳ
ನೋವಿನಲೆಗಳು ಮನ ಮುಟ್ಟದಿರಲೆನ್ದು.
ಅದ ಮೀರಿ ಬಂದವಲೆಗಳು,
ಅಲೆಯ ಹನಿಗಳು ಚದುರಿತು ಮನದ ತುಂಬಾ
ಒದ್ದೊದ್ದೆ.
ಮೂಕ ಭಾವ.
ಮುರಿದು ಬಿದ್ದ ಅಸಹಾಯಕ ಗೋಡೆ.
ಕತ್ತಲೆಯ ಮೂಲೆ ಹಿತವಾಗಿದೆ.......

ಗೊತ್ತಾಯಿತೀಗ ಮೂಲೆಯಲಿ ಕುಳಿತು,
ಅಲೆಗೆ ತಡೆ ಹಾಕುವುದು ಸಲ್ಲ.
ಮನದ ಅಲೆಯ ನೋಡುತ ಬದುಕು ಧ್ಯಾನಸ್ಥನಗಿ.
ಸಾಧ್ಯವಾದರೆ ಅಲೆಯ ಮೇಲೆ
ತೇಲುತ್ತಾ, ಅದರ ಏರಿಳಿತದೊಡನೆ
ಬದುಕು.
ನೋವಿನಲೆಗಳಿಗೆ ಕಾಲವೇ ಮುಲಾಮು.

Tuesday, August 05, 2008

"Kere kodi bittu" "ಕೆರೆ ಕೋಡಿ ಬಿತ್ತು"





Last week when I called my native village, my mother told me “Kere kodi bittu”. What is so significant about it? This has many meaning. Kere = pond, kodi = gate, bituu = overflow. This is what my mother told me last week. Our village pond was full. This is a happy news. In my village, rain is always unpredictable. We measure the rain, by assessing how much our pond and well are filled? However, global warming has all to do with “Kere kodi bittu”. Global warming has changed the precipitation (rain) pattern. Heavy rain in dry region, no rain in regions where lot of rain and rain dependent crops are grown. So global warming has touched until my village. They are not aware of a bit. They know fuel price has increased and it is difficult to live. Their children don’t stay in village to do agriculture (one is me!!!!!!!!). Self-sufficient village economy exists no more. People who have never heard of America, Iraq, global warming and globalization are affected without their knowledge. They are least aware of WTO agreement, and by that, their homegrown rice will be sold at Rs 2/- kg. All is “MAYA” ha ha ha. There was a time, a 20 days power cut or 5 days of bus/ lorry strike would not have affected our village people. Now even mobile line congestion bothers village people!!!!. Each strike affects them, forget that, even Hurricane Katrina ( a manifestation of global warming) in distant America affected these innocent people because of fuel rise!!!!!!!!!!.Nor we neither our villagers are isolated any more, even 2 km bike ride, a over night use of AC has Global effect!!!!!!!!!!!



“Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity”

William Butler Yeats, January 1919