It was a bright sunny day and the farmers were getting ready to harvest the rice. The ficus was busy as guests from Siberia had started to arrive. Timeline was brooding upon the future of humans and that of the earth. The winds were making the rice fields sway and it looked as if a woman clad in a green Saree had let her Saree loose. The palace of the former raja stood prominently besides the big pond where women were bathing and children swimming. Once in a while the bell of the temple built by the former Raja's ancestors would go "DONGGGG...".The ficus was respected equally by the flora and the fauna of the region. the humans respected it because they believed it was a God, the travelers loved it for its shade, the birds loved it because it gave them shelter, the goats and cattle loved it for its shade and leaves, the bats and smaller mammals loved it for its fruits and so on...
There was a problem brewing in the village for the last three to four months. The crops had come to ficus for getting justice. Essentially they were divided into two groups the Transgenic and the non transgenic ones. The non transgenic ones were the orthodox type who were supported by a big NGO and those hideous insects as their witnesses and then there were these transgenic ones who had a scientist Dr Rama as their supporter and two farmers Shanker and Shyamu as their witnesses. Arguments had been going on since the past 3 months and it was the day ficus had summoned all the flora and fauna to let them know of his opinion in consultation with the timeline, his mentor and guru.
The time came and when everyone had assembled, ficus cleared his throat "i have seen this village grow in front of me, i have seen people come and go and in the process the making of this village. there have been umptieth number of cases which have come before me like the issue of the fertilizers, then the tractors, then the hybrids and yet another issue has come up now , now it is the Transgenic issue. I welcome you all and would like to tell my opinion about the fate of the transgenic".
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Desperately waiting for part two
ReplyDelete:) Part II please.
ReplyDeleteBro, read something about transgenic plants on The Hindu today.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.hindu.com/2010/08/10/stories/2010081051371100.htm
So, is there a change in Part II of your story?