Stone Age Man and the World Environment Day

Stone Utensil -used to store pickles

Paste maker- used to make chutney or paste for  any gruel side-dish

Dry Grinder to make smaller granules from rice /dhal

The Grinder that would give platter for the Dosas, Idlis and Vadas

Big stone vessel to prepare gruel dishes for more than 10 members

Lamps made of stone to be lit up before deities or  on the crevices on walls specially made to hold them 

Let people call so. But it was a fact that life of 'early man'  and of my early  age revolved around stones. The roads, the walls of houses, temples, the deities, the pillars, the columns, the beams, the carvings,  the boundaries of houses, the steps in ponds/ lakes  , the grindstones of varied sizes for varied purposes, the cooking utensils, the hearths and so on. Every thing was made of stone but not 'man'. Today  but for man nothing is of stone. They are either of plastic or any other unnatural man made material. We laughed at the 'natural life' of our predecessors and today they pity the life we lead today. Just yesterday I came across a canal for about a kilometer  that would carry waters for paddy fields from the  dam filled with plastic and polythene. The entire canal was filled with poly packs and other materials inimical to farm fields. The case is same with every water body in India. A nation of billion and more pollutes  expects the government to do all the cleaning work. 

Even today I watch the holy media from India goes on showing polluted rivers and lakes. Not a single reporter from the lakhs  make a single appeal to people not to throw waste into water bodies. If government borrows  funds from Japan for cleaning up the rivers, people would clap and waiting for a scalp as corruption would erupt and resurrect. 

Any thing of the bygone era  is dirty and everything of the e-era is pretty is not a good idea. Let us build our future on the foundations of our past.