I love the colour green.I try to be green. No I'm not suffering from pangs of monstrous jealousy,neither has the bumpy,pot-holed bus ride to college made me sick.Not yet.But it's what the colour represents,the outdoors,trees,our environment and us in healthy symbiosis that I love.
My batch is the second batch . to have an additional subject E.V.S in our Engg.syllabus.
AND I HATE IT.
No I wasn't lying in lines 1,2,3,4.But why I loathe it so much requires some explanation.
1)Water pollution
2)Green house effect
3)Global warming
The crux of our EVS syllabus.
The 3rd std,4th std,5th std,6th std, 7th std,8th std,9th std,10th std,11th std,12th std..T.E....Been there done that .First I thought there possibly couldn't be any thing left to know more about in these three corner-stones of our syllabus but finally after studying the same thing for the 11th (!) time I found out a new thing.I found out why the majority of people everywhere are apathetic towards the environment.It is because our environment along with ourselves has turned out be nothing more than a bookish theory.We stretch our hand only far enough to earn marks/points/grades/money ,the whole world be choking dead or not.
1)So you ask me about the Green house effect ,I'll study and write only about the green house effect.10 marks more than you loser!
2)So I plant trees,have a farm on FB farmville.
YAY!I have more points than you.
3)Yes ma'am ,plastic must be banned.
'A' grade \m/
4)This is why carbon credit exists in the first place.
And while even the tiniest fondness for green is crushed and stifled in our stagnant
classrooms,we continue to "learn" why plants are helpful to us and how the definition of food-chain has evolved to mean the line along which the box of banana chips is passed during the EVS lecture.
The Panvel airport continues to battle mangroves.
The Gulf of Mexico is crying over spilt oil.
Mumbai drowns in flood every year.
Your mobile phone manufacturer is now recycling electronics.
Drop-dry buildings are discovering the bliss of rain water harvesting.
Someone somewhere is trying to save tigers from extinction.
And they need you to be aware and respond.
But don't bother.It's not in our syllabus.
very true...we should be more practical...
ReplyDeletei hate our education system..
You forgot that we study "how are natural resources important to us" !
ReplyDeleteWell written! :D
Nice work. Same goes for languages as a part of the school curriculum I believe.
ReplyDeletePS. You should mention the theme you suggested for the inaugural issue of our college magazine.
@kaushik yes i probably should.
ReplyDeleteThe theme I suggested for the inaugral issue of our college magazine is " green horns"... but that idea will be executed soon in a blog(@swati :wink wink ).
The green horns is great!
ReplyDeleteWe should spread the word. :)
(About the initiative and the blog, of course)
@Yogesh: Dude , I also hate this system...unfortunately we are a part of it. But instead of ignoring it we should working on it as a Technical person.(don't worry I have already started :))
ReplyDelete@Anaisha : I want to recycle my broken mobile...help me.
Anai! I'm proud of you! This post is your best one yet.
ReplyDelete@anag ...thanks so much buddy.... remember you were too once a member of Earth's Vigilant Soldier(EVS)
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ReplyDeleteYes I agree we need to bring about drastic and immediate changes in our education system.And
ReplyDeletewhile that is being done, we shouldn't use it as an excuse for limiting our awareness and attitude towards our environment.
nice article anaisha and well written... :)
ReplyDeletekeep blogging
damn true..and superbly written :)
ReplyDeleteLovely Anaisha...and spirited :)
ReplyDeleteGlad you are actually doing something about it and trying to shake people out of their apathy...