Even God has gone green!

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(published in www.deccanherald.com)

In the times when everybody is talking about grass, leaves and vegetables, the Ganesha festival too went green in Goa this year. What coaxed the Goan government to take such measures? The green activists there ensured that floral offerings made to Lord Ganesha would be converted to compost, and this happened after ‘hard line protest’ by ‘green activists’. They also made certain that the composting would be done in separate pits, respecting the sentiments of the people.

This is an example of how things can be moulded smartly without lighting communal violence. Hats off to the civil society groups in Panaji! They made Ganesha festival eco-friendly and even took measures to check water pollution. The compost will be used as manure for the parks and gardens in the corporation of Panaji.

We are all very familiar with ‘global warming’, but who cares! This is going to happen, but our stance is- let us see when that affects us…Our mind keeps trotting with such ‘chalta hai’ attitude.

We have to protest, not for language, state or statues but for ‘environment’. But there are a very few hearts that beat for ‘nature’. Unfortunately ‘mother earth’ has not been glamorous enough to earn fans like Mr Amitabh Bachchan and Dr Rajkumar did. Activists are summarily dismissed, their voices goes unheard. People brand them with different names but the fact is, these activists are right, very right. We have to go green in every way we could; thanks to the ‘Green Ganesha’. Just wished Bangalore raised this issue before, we could have used the manure for Lal Bagh and Cubbon Park. But is the BBMP listening?