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Good while it lasted : 6th mass extinction underway, courtesy humans |
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My growing-up years on the banks of the Mahanadi — one of the planet’s oldest rivers, flowing for the last 160 million years through the land we now call Odisha — offered more ecological and geological experiences than I would encounter later in life. As I jog my memory, it becomes clear that our lives were marked, in fact, dictated, by ecological indicators.
Every tree, every creature, even the speed and direction of the wind, declared the arrival and departure of something.
When the dragonflies swarmed around in September, we rejoiced at the arrival of the winter festival season. In the post-monsoon season, around every puddle of water, or wetland, they had their merry world. Just before this, when the damselflies flew around our house, it was time for the monsoon.
Old umbrellas were dusted and sent to a mechanic for repairs, and people thronged the market to stock onion and potato — the two staple foods to be consumed during the food-lean monsoon season. We accepted these as natural cycles. One can say there was a rhythm in our natural living...
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