My friend Sangeeta Khanna lves in the capital, and is blessed to have a garden with lots of useful, traditional , and decorative greens. She also makes teas from many traditional greens from her garden, and the Parijat ( Night flowering jasmine or Nyctanthes arbortristis) tree leaves , is one of them.
Thanks to the excessive pollution in Delhi, the Parijat leaves , at least those that are a bit older , now boast a layer of smog, as may be seen in the photograph here, clicked and posted by Sangeeta. I wonder what the Gods feel about being worshipped with smog-encrusted flowers smelling of weird hydrocarbons..
The leaves don't protest, fight in Parliament , or even take half hearted decisions based on popularity.
That is left to stupid, evolved , greedy bipeds like us.
And then , sometime, somewhere, nature teaches us a lesson.
on the green lungs of the city,
and still they
bravely carry on
respiring,
photosyhthesizing,
and standing in support
of the young ones
with orange stems
and white fragrance
for the Gods.
We shameless
evolved cerebral folks
follow corrupted
power Gods
and pretend to
bravely carry on
evenly and oddly ,
spewing the exhaust
of mindless wheelers
and yes,
dealers....
Does it take a deluge
to wipe off
the deposits
on the leaves ?
Think .
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