As he looked down from the balcony of his house an obnoxious feeling of disgust and disappointment had clouded his mind of what the future really held for us humans. Kshitij shares some of his past memories that could be taken back to his hometown, Delhi in North India and how this interim had bought a gradual change of realization and desperation for succor in the lives of many. He mentions some of the grim facts that were evoked into his mind regarding the drastic changes humans had caused around their surroundings. Nothing but skyscrapers made of metal and steel looked down upon us, the miasmic smell of the roads made of tar covered the corpses of millions of trees that were hacked and slashed, and these are just a few.
Now it does not matter, years go by and the seasons come and go but the stench of the human mess still refuses to budge. He was once amazed by what humans had accomplished in advanced technology but as they say everything comes at a price and this time it came in the form of a gamble, a gamble for the life of the ecosystem. The smog covers the landscape of his city like a cheap plastic bag that throttles the life of their victims. The so called “trees” in the city look dead and lifeless because of it and its funny when we complain, though isn’t it us who contaminated the skies, isn’t it us who contaminated the soil and the water, then how can we “expect” something from a tree that we have disrespected and disregarded.
The experiences of him being in the city are astounding, he literally treads the city roads in a constant fear of being run over, by people and their huge machines called cars. Things surely have changed and time has taken a toll on us but we too are equally to be blamed. The trees have withered and now its our turn. He just hopes we contemplate on our actions before its too late.
This blogpost was written by Kshitij Chaudhuri (Industrial arts and design practices student) as a part of his assignment for Ecocentric where he dived deep inside to acknowledge his feelings on environment.
On the 29th of November, students of the Ecocentric project took a short trip to Avalahalli forest which is about 30 minutes away from college campus.
The Ragi pods are easily recognizable, as they come off in brown clumps, and by rolling the pods in one’s hands, one is able to extract the Ragi easily.
Then, we collected all the waste that lay around in a plastic bag. Although this was forest/agricultural land, the reach of humans was still evident by the large amounts of plastic left behind. We continued to carry plastic all through our walk.
We headed towards a dense growth of Eucalyptus trees, where we gathered and discussed certain patterns and facts of the forest that we had observed.
