Friday, March 6, 2020

The lost trees and disturbing gardens


Kaleidoscope continues to live his exciting life shuttling between his transforming town and the built in city. The built in habitat is supposedly exciting as the governance mechanism is ready to offer something new everyday! Sometimes it is the the Feluda theme park where no one visits, some other times it is the sketing rink where kids can manage to come once in a month! The governance tries hard to wipe off every bit of the place's history to make it even more uncertained space which then will supposedly acquire its own history. 

Newtown in every dimension is a kitsch to those who roamed around, watched miles long farmland. Newtown, is the triumph of powerful state over it's earlier civilisation. Like the winners often do it replaced the memories, transforms the place.

The latest addition to this kitsch is vertical garden on metro pillars! Some news paper celebrates such construction to be a highly efficient means of solving the problems of pollution and it is eyesoothing. Some say, these are vertical forests, things of future!

Kaliedoscope on his way back from the evening walk end up seeing such pillars from a close proximity! Yes indeed, they look much better than a concrete pillar! A creative imagination can endup finding a forest inside. The texture and mix of different colours from a distance is attractive. Kaleidoscope was busy in capturing a few images when a noise drove his attention. 

Gang of birds gathered on the Tabubuiya tree planted on the boulevard which divides the broad road were having a conversation. They never looked at the vertical forests I am sure they might never will... Not until all the trees are destroyed to satisfy the insatiable human desire! 


Kaleidoscope tried to take a few snaps of them too, but they were at a distance! Why not, though Kaleidoscope, the closer you are to the vertical gardens the distant you are from the forests of happiness. 

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