Millennium harmony

The scientists are now chasing the environmental effects, natural or unnatural! The company you keep (up with) in this mini-globe, thanks to the ICT bombardment. The cacophony of silence (incompatibility) at the higher levels. Lead to turn others into lead. The human touch is missing.

There are cracks in the leadership, local or global. Too many leaders chase too few kingdoms. Mental cracks, lathi cracks, boot cracks, cracking of explosives, large and small; using hand, barrel or aerial showers. Divine rahmat is symbolised by the rain, dew, snowfall, the gentle breeze, or the swaying of the spring branches. Tagore is out of date so soon (but Rabindra-sangeet is still very, very popular!) Hum a tune as you read along.

I was watching from my veranda the school children practising in the park in front for the coming sports. A small toddler (still too young for the playgroup), was strolling and observing the grazing goats, and prodding them (or caressing), and then running to his mother for dear life; to return to the game of life. He was trying to establish empathy. Shame on us adults!

Man-made theoretical knowledge is failing right and left. Politics is in shambles, and economics has no head, tail or body. Religion, millenniums old, cannot tackle modern societies. Religion and change are apparently incompatible, as yet. There is a shortage of new type of preachers. What is the difference between Palestine (conflict; Palestine as a country does not exist) and the struggle' in Bangladesh (political and religious)? Never mind, or it matters?

History needs no theories. It is assembled facts. But look at the ganjam (snafu) it has created. Polarisation and neutrality are the bugs in the global village. Differ and rise! Primped and lie low. Lie low in the background, and suddenly flash on the front stage. The entire world is a stage (thank you, Shakespeare!).

Go one step further than the old divide-and-rule technique. Leave nothing for division. Divided oil cannot flow. Nor divided loyalty. The latter is public property now, hence privacy cannot be maintained. What is left? Nothing is right.

The Islamic world is facing trials, tests, and tribulations. Too much disunity and communication gaps vertically and horizontally. The winds of change will also demonstrate the last lap of the lone superpower in its marathon race.

Remember Tolstoy's short story "How much land a man needs?" Something like six feet, by six feet, by three feet. The macro Cosmos rules the micro mind.