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By Kamlesh Tripathi
‘Earth laughs in flowers’ - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each flower is the heart throb
of the garden where it is grows, and so also the emblem of ‘earth’s laughter’—as
Emerson puts it.
But, it is sad to see on TV these
days, how people in droves mindlessly present flower bouquets to VVIPs,
including Heads of States who mechanically pass it on to their security guards,
standing next to them. And you get this disgusting feeling, seeing these lovely
flowers being insulted.
Perhaps, callous VVIPS do not
have the time and mind to remember and feel about the labour pains ‘Mother
Earth’ may have undergone in ‘delivering’ each flower, and the blood and sweat,
the gardener may have oozed in bringing about this exquisite beauty called-
flowers.
Therefore, will it not be
wonderful to leave them in the garden alone than to give them premature death
in thankless bouquets.
And, as for tokenism one could
think of plastic or paper flowers under—‘make in India’ scheme.
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