Land, Water and Air Lords Author : Dr. K.S. Kang

 

Land,Water and Air Lords

Author: Dr. K.S. Kang

An owner of land even a small plot of land is considered a man of substance as he enjoys financial and economic security throughout the life. Such a person is often more sought after in matrimonial alliance, as it assured that his family will not starve come what may. A land owner at least promised a decent standard of life to the family member that was to leave their family and join his family after the wedding. Besides a land owner enjoyed respectable status at least in Indian society.

Over the years man’s destructive activities like deforestation, digging of wells in order to exploit under ground water led to the conditions of draught and famine that caused the shortage of water and food. People started paying more attention to water as even a land lord having acres of land can grow nothing without the proper supply of water. Rising population with time also made this problem more grave and people started recognising the importance of water. Change in life style also led to the increase in consumption of water. Earlier the acqa needs of a man were limited and confined but with the growing use of coolers, WC toilets and the like has increased the water needs of a human being manifold. In good old days water needs of an average family were easily met by the water connection provided by Public Health Engineering Department of the government. Then people started digging tube wells in their houses while other built tanks inside and outside their house to store water for the Summers during which this problem became more acute. People even constructed large tanks with the capacity of 10000 litres inside their houses. Some even started putting booster pumps directly in the pipe line to quench their water needs. Mostly common middle class man had to rely on private water tanker service that gave rise to Water Mafia that minted money during the crisis particularly during the summers when the water was in great demand and supply scanty. One person succeeded in winning the local elections successfully as he satisfied water needs of his voters for nearly five years free of cost by sending his tanker to anyone who needed it in his constituency. People even saw the water storing capacity of a family before finalising the matrimonial alliance of their daughter.

With time human civilisation faced one of its worst crisis in its history in the form of Corona, which was a highly contagious disease that attacks and weakens the lungs. Once the virus enters the body it is nearly possible to get a cure and person dies of suffocation in absence of proper amount of oxygen. Now clean air or oxygen became man’s needs to survive. Even the persons of great stature and substance could not survive the sudden disruption of supply of oxygen at a critical juncture. Suddenly Oxygen mafia cropped up in the country who wanted to mint money by exploiting the needs of the man. Even hospital admitted patients on this condition that they will have to arrange for their own oxygen cylinders. This mafia sold not only cylinders at high price but even after shelling the asked amount people were not getting fully filled oxygen cylinders on the other. A person even after paying the asked amount discovers to his horror that the cylinder that he gets is either half filled or empty and it stops supplying oxygen and the patient dies before reaching the hospital.

But as light and darkness co-exist in the world simultaneously. In the above paragraphs I have given dark picture of the situation in which certain greedy in human brutes were making money by black marketing not only oxygen cylinders but also essential medicines and equipment while on the other hand people in Gurudwara are not only providing masks, PPE kits and gloves at a subsidized prices long with free food to the needy and the epitome of humanity came in Gurudwara at Indirapuram where Gurudwara has arranged the supply of Oxygen to the needy patients free of cost. Here people gathered in large numbers as volunteers despite the dangers and risks involved known to help and serve the suffering humanity.

In the end light will prevail over darkness

Hope goodness will eradicate evil.

Long live humanity,

May everybody prosper.