After Aai's sad demise, as I began writing the daily blog as a token of my love and gratitude for my parents, I never knew I would come across so much that is unknown in this vast world of ours. Honestly, for instance, despite all my conscious awareness of the linkages among womanhood, food, poverty and all such instinctive bonds, I did not know that October 16 has since the late seventies been celebrated by the UNO as World Food Day!
In other words, writing these blogs on a daily basis has been sure food for thought. Now let us turn our thoughts to the theme of the day. Let us look at it a little differently. Yes, food and poverty, food and womanhood are inseparable bonds. Let us not talk about these much discussed themes. We know, for instance, how economists of Indian origin have stashed away worthy prizes, including the Nobel, by analyzing these very themes.
Let us instead talk about food as a treatment against wars, as a tool to end wars. Look at the war torn Gaza, for example. For no rhyme nor reason, the Palestinians provoked and initiated the war. They contributed to its continuing by hiding terrorists of all trends n traits amongst the civilians. The terror outfits cannot manage their vicious cruelties of all sorts without such immediate local support. In the process suffered the common man from both the camps.
True, there was all this talk of carpet bombing as precision bombing, et al. Yet it is the fertile land that provides food that was thus violated. Actually, 'land' and overall nature as such are so forgiving that even the Chernobyl site is now almost flush with flora and fauna that have learnt and managed to adjust with the context, to mould self accordingly, and to survive!
I suppose such resilience of the food and life chains should prove how wars, that drain resources world wide, are just useless. May be, it IS absolutely Utopian and idealistic to hope for, but the war weaponry industry should be levied such heavy tariff across the whole world that no country dreams of building and selling sophisticated weaponry!
Sure it is some 'dream', I am absolutely aware. In this wide, bad, mad world of ours, there ARE individuals, groups, states who must constantly compete, eternally attempt to prove themselves alone as superior, n hence ceaselessly conflict!
In.the process, as land bloodies and buries its vitality, to avoid the resultant food scarcity, there must emerge more modes of vertical farming. Everybody should realise that we cannot eat either currency or kalashnikovs! 'Food first', well, it flourishes even in the distant space stations, that is the urgent slogan!
Pratima@ Indeed "this is no time for wars", our PM told to procure peace. Hope Russia to Afghanistan, and all in between and around, listen to the sane advice. For food's sake!
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