So tweet the Earth
'ek chidiya, anek chidiyaN; dana chugne baith gayee thi .....' The song conjures up childhood imagery, memories of an entire generation that was still lucky to learn the lessons of life from Mother Nature. For all others who couldn't strike a chord yet, 'ek chidiya, anek chidiyaN' translates to 'a lovely bird and many such lovely birds....'. Those are the opening lines of a beautifully animated song that encouraged harmony and unity in diversity, the mottos that best describe India, through a delightful cameo from Nature.
Most of us used to take delight in watching birds paying us a visit in our very own habitats during our childhood, when todays cities were still attractive enough for nature to cast its beautiful spell with changing seasons, colors, flowers and more. However, all such pleasures of nature are strangers to our cities now. Its something that we have done ourselves, still doing, depriving our younger generations of all such pleasure.
The greater irony is, we seek solace in the virtual worlds. Our bird song comes from MP3s, our greenery in screensavers. And tweet on the web mimicking nature. As we use these products, as we live a synthetic life, we need to think, rethink how our life is affecting our world, our Nature. As creative people, its time we thought about how our creations, the products and services we create and we use impact our world.
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Computer hardware and Silicon chips waste are not recyclable.
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It's compulsory to change tyres after a specific period of time, especially in Formula races to keep better traction, and it is a rule in case of racing cars.
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The design of sanitary pads is a revolution. Though it is very convenient and comfortable it can only be used once and is not recyclable.
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In the perspective of an average Air Conditioner user, incrementing means getting much colder, the same in tech perspective, it is falling of temperature.
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Batteries power up all our gadgets like cordless phones, TV remote controls, wall clocks, torches and many other handheld devices.
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Manjha is the thread which is widely used for flying kites. One of its main ingredients is glass powder.
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Plastic is used to make many things in todays world. The kind of plastic used to make disposable cups is at its last stage.
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