I walked about 2 kilometres today and was thinking about making a debut at Rio Olympics, may not be the medal but would definitely get recognition for the most trolled athlete.
I giggled and was walking towards my apartment, an old man was thrashing a cow on the road as it was blocking the way of many vehicles. I was neither angry at the man who was beating it nor sad about the animal getting beaten. I was feeling extremely sorry about the creature which couldn't convey the message to his owner, it was hungry and having some leftovers thrown on the road.
For a change, the incident didn't move me. We have been seeing these kind of animal abuse all our life, so what's new eh? No one really cares.
Many try and then try to act, finally have their favourite lamb fry. I love animals, that doesn't mean am an Vegetarian.
So, later the incident was flashing back and kept me thinking.
Who constructed these Roads?
Why do we humans have supremacy over the land and water?
How are the roads well connected?
Do we deserve this?
Millions of years ago when there was measureless amounts of land and water, the early man started fondling with the new excavations around him, He needed to eat, hunt, sleep and then move. It isn't easy for a half brained Neanderthals to survive at that era, especially when they have to stay put at a place. When it's time to move from their cave to some other dugout, what would help them travel?
It's the Animals!
Humans first tamed animals for protection and used as their navigators. The cattle used to move and slowly the human followed them, it cleared the trees, levelled the bumpy and muddy terrains.
Later we started using carts that are tied to the cattle, which made better paths with the strong wheels.
The rapid Globalisation tattered the slumpy and sloppy routes and gave birth to the new age tar and cement concrete roads. Then came the highways which changed the trade routes in India altogether, the roads that we are dependent on from our very starting of life to the end, the roads that we think are one of the greatest constructions of human kind were once the hard foundation of cattle, whom by the way aren't allowed on the Highways. I don't blame anyone for not allowing cattle on the Highways by arranging the fence for obvious reasons, because the traffic,humans and lot of manipulative stuff. Isn't it just ironic that the roads that are being laid by the cattle once are not allowed now?
It is almost like banning the Britishers from India in this Century.
Did you ever think why the roads aren't straight most of the time, it takes turns and curves at unexpected ends?
Because those animals were just as curious as we are now. They just didn't want to travel straight.
- Rakesh Nimmagadda
