Mother Earth's Rejuvenation

The global pandemic has forced many Government's to issue lockdown orders keeping in mind the safety of the citizens and also to restrict mass spreading of the disease. Vehicular movements, production units and factories are shut down.

Olive Ridley Turtlles in Odhisha

Mother Earth is now healing herself. Many endangered species have been spotted. The air and water has become cleaner than before. There is less of noise. Earth has healed herself at a much faster pace than we took to hurt her. Perhaps its a time when we must realize how ferocious we have been and how benovalent we should  have been.

Cleaner Yamuna River after Lockdown

The Olive Ridley Turtles are back in Odhisha and they have started mass nesting of eggs. The lockdown has restricted the number of casualities to the turtles and their eggs. The Malabar Civet, which is supposedly a noctural animal is back in the streets of Meppayur Town, Kozhikode during the day time itself. A Nilgai was spotted walking in the busy streets of Noida. A herd of barking deer was spotted crossing the national highway during bright noon at Kaziranga. A Sambhar Deer was spotted in Chandigarh. The rare South Asian River Dolphin, also known as the Ganges Dolphin which had been marked as critically endangered was spotted at different ghats of Kolkata. Rare Snow Leopards have also been spotted in the Nanda Devi National Park in Uttarakhand. A school of dolphins was spotted near the Marine Drive, Mumbai. Endangered Hawksbill sea turtles have laid the eggs in the empty beaches of Brazil. Endangered Leatherback Turtles were spotted nesting in the empty beaches of Thailand after nearly 20 years. 

Himalayas visible from Saharanpur

Air Quality Index in Delhi usually stays at around 200, where 25 is considered the maximum mark and anything above it is marked unsafe. Now it has dropped to around 20. The scow capped Gangotri peaks of Himalayas are now visible from Saharanpur which is almost 200 kilometres away after AQI has improved. The Kanchanjunga Peaks were visible from Raiganj, which is approximately 550 kilometres away after nearly 30 years. The river water quality of Yamuna and Ganges has severely increased within few days of lockdown. 

Mother Earth has started  shown her best to us within just few weeks of lockdown. The sky is much bluer now and the rivers are much cleaner now. People who were confined to the walls of their apartments have now known to clap in unity or even sing a song. People are forgetting their race and origin and helping others. Humanity is back once again. The lockdown has made us stronger than before.

Mother Earth needs such lockdown for 10 days for twice a year and only then we will see the nature as it was handed over to us by our forefathers. We don't own the nature, we are just a part of it. We have no right to  abuse Mother Earth. We had forgotten it for the sake of our greed. Perhaps now we know it well.