THE TRASH WE SOW IS THE TRASH WE REAP
T he other day, when we saw tons of trash thrown back by the Sea along the Queen’s Necklace – Mumbai’s pride, Marine Drive – we all knew what the Sea had conveyed to us through that mono act: “What you sow, you reap”… “If you send me good stuff, I will send you back good stuff in more measure. But, if you send me trash, you will get it back in tons and tons, like this.” Well, the message runs much deeper, Sir. This Sea called ‘Life’ has been too kind and tolerant to us. We are lucky, actually, to get away with our ‘sins’! Look at what we do, each day… Some of us, relentlessly and shamelessly, from the moment we get up from our beds to the moment we go to our beds… We dump ‘trash’ into this Sea called ‘Life’… What trash? The trash of divisive thoughts… The trash of religious discord… The trash of political discord… The trash of gender discord… The trash of caste and class discord… The trash of hatred and revenge… The trash of i...