curiosity, concern, compassion and collaboration
The shores have complained to the sea
I did not pay enough attention to them
But when did I do that
Why are these expectations arising now
When I am on the verge of relinquishing
The charge of the garden
In which lots of flowers grew
All these while
But a butterfly changed every thing
There was a commotion when she decided to
Take liberties with what she will
cross-pollinate
When you fell a few times
You got up and walked afresh
Not bothering too much about the
Precariousness of the balance
With which
The time was hinged on the pivot
You will still walk,
Run and go alone one day
Under the sun
Beyond the clouds
Hand in hand, we will walk
And then forgive the moments
When I wasn’t fully with you
But is not that a small
Price to pay for all the hopes
I bring and all the faith I still have
That one day
The seeds we sowed will blossom
I have not known how long we have
Seen the shadows of
Silent, sad, and surrealistic sights
Of time and tide
Wait for the waves to settle
the debts of sand on the shore
For having absorbed all the pain
All these years
Without complaining,
When will there be a monument built
In honour of all the moments
That are precious because of their uncertainty
And tentativeness
And indecisiveness and
The desire to see beyond the screens and
The key boards
20 march 2010
When the curtains can’t hold the truth
From peering through the windows
What do you really do, close the window,
draw the curtain
or just tear these apart
let the rays of naked sun come through
because moon is too shy to admit
the transgressions of life are not
like a progress of an eclipse
which will pass eventually
and then rays will have a right of way
some day, some how, some where,
no matter you say
detours of desires
are not the pathways
on which one ever finds
peace that beguiles
and lulls one to assume
that the end is near,
the fire is now determined
to consume all the leftover memories
that were the seeds
of my poems
delete them,
lest they envelop the air
which we breathe
and so may emerge
a being that is absorbed
completely by the passion
pf perseverance in vain
2006
why was not erasing option designed
in the memory bank
was it a lapse on His part of
its is just that he gave us a huge account
unlimited in its scope and scale
reinterpreting every memory in the light of new memories
some carry grudges
some hurts
some balloons of happiness
which escape into the sky
every now and then
to land into some strangers garden
did you not hold any such balloon lately
may be you did not walk int the garden
go out, look at the sky
behave a like kid
always willing to run a bit
if only to capture some fallen balloons
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dont make pains as a pArt of life
THESE are are like thorns
which make rose protect it from some pests
may be you are blessed with pains
to protect from some poachers
Kennedy space centre: launch
Majora
“U have to look outside, to look inside”
Eleanor Roosevelt: if substitute to petrol was to be found, it will be, because it was done in past, 1948
South Bronx poorest district
World’s largest food distribution centre
Less trees, parks that most places in the country
Lungs are linked to brain: proximity to fossil fuel emission source and poor intelligence
We do things not bec these are easy, but because these are difficult
We should not use the term waste water, we cant waste people any more, it is a process which is not productive
Peter gleick: pacific instt
Solving water problems solves education, health and food problems,
Post apartheid program: working for water, removing alien vegetation from watershed, restored ecosystems, gave work, restored flows, hugely successful program;
We cant forget that technology has unintended consequences: poor water quality; clean ground water, millions of bore water to reach cleaner ground water because surface water was bad, that lead to arsenic problem;
Water weirdos: some solutions violate physics laws and some violate social and or institutional laws
We need to rethink choices we had rejected in past
Mark Tonkin:
Dutyion membrane; absorbs water, plants can be grown from sea water without desalination, put salt water inside these pipes and only vapor of pure water comes out;
70 per cent of all fresh water goes to irrigate crops
What are the limits of the technology:
Sea water was 35k ppm salt
Water being used was 25kppm
Settlement tank:
No power, only gravity==========================trenching between trees—making plant work for water;
Demand for salt: heat is stored in molten salt:
Water testing:
Mark sobsey
Film: inoculate the sample, culture the bacteria: grow the bact in bottle, let it grow, colour change, no quantification, but presence is told;
Absorbent pads for water testing:
Chromegenic agents for testing fecal bacteria;
No water testing facility in ketrina in usa and also in Haiti
Ashok gadgil:
Shallow handpumps: arsenic pollution
140 million people are exposed to arsenic pollution
Arsenic binds to iron electrodes;
Andrew tinka:
Sensors for water quality: rivers, install sensors at a place in river and then monitor the water quality
Innovation is to have floating water sensor
Gps laoded sensor records watr quality along with gps value
Traffic map for water
2 parts per thousand of salt, this is ok for rice
Young salmon tok wrong turn, went toward
Delta
Why was salmon gong down the wrong direction?
Sensor with fish behaviour may be floated and then one coul see why the fish take wrong direction
Emergency response systems floating sensors
One drop: liliana peresa
Nicaragua, ivania: did not have access to safe water
Technical, education and micro credit: tripod approach
Family garden
Drip, roof top water harvest
Floating sensor: Andrew tinka
Seeds from different catchments may enter the water stream and then grow in the cana bed and damage it, floating sensor will tell us where
Vectors movement along water
Nitrate flow form farms to canal
High cost sensor that moves,
New type of business model for monitoring the effluents
Ideal conditions for fish breeding
Wetland health
Low cost nitrate sensor
Navy
Regulatory agencies
Non point becomes the point pollution
72 hours
Turbine at the bottom
Dispenser of chemicals, dyes, to measure the dynamic nature of river, or its properties, various reactions could be measured through release of the small substances
Aquifer by aquifer value of water quality yin deep bores
Air column at different heights and width
Ashok
Mark sobsey
Postage stamp
Mail in absorbent pad
Camera based diagnostic
Idex labs in milk
640 20 camera
Food processing industry may use this strip for quality assurance
Beverages companies
Todd khozein
Plant need based release of water
pain in the body, pain in the heart
when did we sell any pain in the mart
yet when we go to the far off market
we see vectors of all the choices,
we dont know if that is the way
one got the thought of peace in a packet
let me tell you, if you will care to hear
the vibrations in the cup of tea,
with a spoon left in it to stir, or just to lose heat
i dont know, but i do care, if the spoons disappear
when leaves fell down some body announced river teista had stopped flowing how will these leaves be drained into the river now and fertilize the fields in which those flowers bloom of which the garland i had planned to offer to you Ma kaali on this shivratri may be now you have to live with stale flowers that bloomed days ago or the ones grow on raod side like the drona pushp which reduce pain of many after years of toil with indifference writ all over so eloquently
why does one need to know
how do we draw the water from a well
which is deep and often gets dried
but some times, overflows
when rains have not drained away
is it that water is precious
only when it is difficult to drain