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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This is a picture of a house wherein an electric pole is situated in front of the house. On keen observation, it can be noticed that this pole is leaning towards the house.
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2011 - 01.21.
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This picture depicts the college building where construction is taking place, for a lift, and there is no sign of "Beware!" to warn visitors and neophytes of the college.
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2011 - 01.21.
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This a picture of a college near a classroom, where there is a huge beehive.
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2011 - 01.21.
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Today, a desktop has so many peripheral components, that it has increased the amount of wires that dwell behind the system.
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2011 - 01.21.
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This is a snapshot of a website that connects to a database for retrieval of information about protein-protein interaction networks of many organisms. The User Interface of this website is so confusing for theoretical computer scientists, having no background knowledge of biology, to search for the appropriate organism and retrieve the apt data of protien networks.
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2011 - 01.21.
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This is a picture of how recklessly, a high tension wire is left near a coconut tree. If by any chance the tree gets burnt because of worn out insulation, or the wire gets cut, then it is a danger for the residents in the area, especially, during raining season.
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2011 - 01.21.
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This a 4 USB hub. Since USB ports carry out serial transmission of information, this hub having 4 ports, can support only 1 USB device at any one time.
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2011 - 01.21.
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This is UPS for a desktop. As you can observe, it does not have a provision to plug the rectangular pins of a hot swappable hard disk, etc.
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2011 - 01.21.
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