വളരുന്ന മരങ്ങളും മരിക്കുന്ന മരങ്ങളും - Growing Trees And Dying Trees

Golden Tree From Secunderabad

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India Is My Country All Indians Are My Brothers And Sisters, I Love My Country....

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When I was thinking about the next word for the A to Z Blog Challenge which starts with a big "I".  My thoughts went on and on and on with many words, but suddenly it stopped at the word "INDIA" Yes, my own nation topped the list.  A beautiful country in the universe, we call it MOTHER INDIA. 

My memories went back to my childhood days.  In school we start our days with the following pledge which I still remember and sometimes whisper too.  Yes, it still lingers in our minds and on our lips.

Here is the pledge we make every day in the morning along with the morning prayer.  Yes we start our school day with this pledge.  It still continues in all the Indian schools.

A Scene from Thekkady, Kerala. Pic, Credit Shibu Thovala

 The Pledge

India is my country
All Indians are my Brothers and Sisters
I love my country
And I shall always strive to be
a loyal and worthy citizen of it.
To my country and my people
I pledge my devotion
May God grant her peace and prosperity. 

But Alas! 

Today, When I look around,  this concept is totally changed

and many look at each other in a different outlook.

The golden old days are gone forever!

politics and politicians polluted the system

and they created a kind of enmity

within ourselves to

fatten their vote banks/pockets. 

Alas!!! 

The journey goes on!!!

Anyways  here is....

A Brief Info. about my beloved country called INDIA:

My Country is the largest nation in the southern Asia

And the second largest country in the world.

About one out of every six people in the world lives in India

It's population is nearly equal to that of all the nations of Africa and south America together.

In Area, India stands at the 7^th place.

The people of India belongs to different ethnic groups.
And people speak more than 14 major languages

And more than 1000 minor languages,

And dialects.

(India is known as Republic of India,

Bharath or Union of India)

Capital: New Delhi

Official Language: Hindi (National)

Area: 3,287,263 sq. km

Population: Above 1,025.1 m.

Languages: Hindi(National), English, 

18 officially recognized languages

Literacy: 65.38%

Religions: Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, 

Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism, etc.

Currency: Rupee [ US $1 = Rs. 49 (approx.) ]

p.c.i.: $2,230

Head of State is President: Mr. Pranab Mukherjee

Head of government:  Federal Republic.

Prime Minister: Dr. Man Mohan Singh

National Song”  “Vande Mataram” (I Bow to The Mother)

National Anthem:  “Janagana Mana”(Thou art the ruler of the minds of all people”)

October 2nd is the Birthday of Mahatma Gandhi 
"The Father of the Nation"

Here are few links which leads to few  videos 
which reveals the life story of Mahatma Gandhi

Credit: wichm.home

The birth and death anniversaries of Great leaders come ones in a year and on that particular day different celebrations takes place in remembrance of such people with much enthusiasm and respect. But unfortunately in most cases that ends with that. But here is an exception to this trend"Gandhiji" the Father of Nation is still remembered and his brand has grown stronger and stronger every year and every walk of life even the new generation giving a new vision to it and discovering him and adopting his polices with much enthusiasm. His birthday is also known as International day of non-violence,

Here are some rare videos from the life of Mahatma Gandhi -- The first TV Interview and his speech at different places.

The first ever made TV interview with Mahatma Gandhi by Fox Movietone News.

Please Click on the below link to watch these videos. 
 P V Ariel's Video Page 

To Read a related article Please click on the below link:
Few Amazing Facts About India

Few Pictures From India

Picture Credit Keralatourism.com

A Scene from my City (Secunderabad) Pic. by Ariel

The Blog Author P V,Near Taj Mahal

P V At Qutab Minar New Delhi

A side view of Qutab Minar Picture bye Charles Philip

Lotus Temple New Delhi Pic, By Mathews Philip

Taj Mahal Pic By P V Ariel

Rajghat, Gandhi Samadhi Entrance Gate P V and family members

P V's Family Members Near India Gate , New Delhi Pic, by PV

A Scene From Thekkady, Kerala. Pic. by Shibu Thovala

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Do Plants Have Sensitivity? A Pumpkin Mourned a Death and Similar Other Incidents Says YES

(An Open Blog to Share Your Views and Suggestions)

This knol is about some unbelievable incidents happened few years back. This knol is also a call for an open discussion on this subject. Do plants have feelings? I believe that the community of knol writers here can bring in some solution or answer to these questions.

Here below I am giving an incident happened in my life few years back and still the vivid memory is haunting in my mind. This is an open platform to air your views on this issue.

Few years back when I published this incident in a local daily and many responded to it but I could not find a solid explanation to this incident. One of the readers’ response was more surprising. A similar chain of incidents happened in his life that too is given below. Reading together these incidents I hope and believe that our scientific community here at knol can bring in some answer to it. Is it a mere coincidence happened at that time? Or any scientific theory involved in it? Will someone from the scientific community have any answer to such incidents? I hereby invite my fellow knol writers as well as the browsers to co-author this knol.

Incident Number one:

A Pumpkin Mourned a death.

The mother of a friend of mine, (lovingly I call her ‘Chittamma’—mother's younger sister) had planted a pumpkin creeper near their ancestral house compound at Valanjavattom near Thiruvalla (Kerala) that had a portion with thatched roof. Apart from this creeper many other plants and trees were growing in the same compound. Chittamma is the one who lovingly take care of these plants and other small trees.

Every time, especially when the annual vacation or other holidays come, we all gather together and play cricket and other games in their vast compound. In such occasions I used to noticed her special care and love towards the plants and trees growing in the compound. A pumpkin creeper had spread all over the roofing. A fairly big pumpkin most ripened. Her husband suggested many times to her to cut it down for use, but she, for no apparent reason, always avoided it and used to change the topic by saying that there was no hurry and that it would be taken down when some special occasion arose. She thus allowed it to remain where it was and since the family was not interested in cutting it down they almost forgot about it.

Days passed by Chittamma fell sick and died. It so happened that while we were all assembled near her death-bed-sad and morose-that pumpkin, in full view of her, broke itself off the creeper and rolled down from the thatched roof on to the ground below. The fall almost to the minute coincided with her death. Later, this pumpkin was used for her own post death ceremonies on the suggestion of my friend's father who felt that probably the pumpkin was being kept her for this very special occasion. Chittamma's death and the coincided death of the pumpkin still remain as a mystery to me.

Incident Number Two:

These incidents happened few years back. Let me put it in his own words: “We were living in the village in Bhagatpur district of Bihar State. My father, grand father and uncle planted a mango sapling, a guava sapling and an apple sapling respectively in our family courtyard. Other trees and plants were also growing in the same compound. They have given all necessary care to grow these plants; my mother also actively helped them in watering these plants. It grows well and started giving fruits.

Few years later my grandfather went to Varanasi in connection with our family business. In the year 1957 he expired at Varanasi, the same week the guava plant he planted in the village dried up. This is not an isolated incident. In the year 1960 my father also went to Varanasi. The day he departed the village in Bihar the mango tree he planted started withering and in few days time it completely got dried up. Few years later my uncle also died at Varanasi, and the apple plant he planted in the village also died in the same week”.

These incidents may be amazing and unbelievable one to many of you. But there is no doubt some mystery behind the death of these plants and trees.

This type of strange reactions of plants and trees need a little rethinking. May be they are also capable of sorrow and happiness. Sometimes science may not recognize this as facts. There are many references in literature that plants too have feelings. But this is not convincing as poets and writers have a world of their own, where birds and animals' talk and smile etc. The incident which I witnessed may not be enough for a scientific theory. But I firmly believe that many such instances and their statistical analysis might yield some positive results.

At the same time it is more difficult to arrive at a scientific conclusion if our observations are added with emotions and presumptions are drawn with a biased mind.

It would not be out of place to say that plants are at a very low level of consciousness when compared to animals. Pain, pleasure, longing, love, hatred, kindness, contentment and sympathy are the feelings of higher forms of life. Association of higher feelings with a lower level of consciousness sometimes may not appear convincing.

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Pumpkin Plant Picture credit: Flickr.com/dvorak319

An Apple Tree. Picture Credit: flickr.com/donsutherland1

A mango tree under the setting sun. Credit: flickr/le faju