Go to hell!

By B JayaKishore

Well, 'Unconditional love' might sound strange or utopic, but in practical if you love what you do, practice or anything for that matter, you'll definitely get returns out of it one day. If not today; may be tomorrow. Only thing is, you should have patience to wait! I call these kinds of thinkings as 'HOPE' rather utopic.

Remember what Krishna has said in Bhagavdgeetha- 'Karmanye vaadhikaarasthe...Maa Phaleshu kadhachana...' (Do your duty first: Don't ever bother about results: Leave every thing to me) I think the term 'Unconditional' can be interpreted in this manner also.
However, going through the both articles by Malathi and Ranjeetha, an important aspect of the issue has incited me to write this.

I have a friend 'Sathya' (Sorry..Sathya...) as we call him, working in an IT company here in Bangalore. Of course he is from an agriculture family, which has more than 5 acres of areca nut plantations, once reared more than 30cows, vegetable cultivation in around 3acres..And much more. Added to this a spacious house, car, computer…every modern amenities under his feat! Above all, fresh air, romance with with lush greenery would have made his life pleasant and beautiful. But it did not happened.

The sad thing is that, though Sathya was eager to continue agriculture, interested to adopt new methods and technologies in his own field, his father was very much reluctant to his wishes. Look at how he puts it: ' See...Farming has no future. Let this legacy be end with me itself. Now, my son is earning handsome Rs.50,000 per month in Bangalore. If he comes back here to look after farming he would not be able to earn that much. Added to this, labour shortage, unstable market, ever increasing input costs has made agriculture a non viable task. I have seen and experienced it. Let it be end with me'

Now, Sathya's family is gearing up to sell the property and thinking of migrating to Bangalore to live with khandan ka chirag-Sathya.Despite his repeated efforts to persuade his family to not sell the property, convince them about the hardships of city life and his interest to pursue farming, he couldn't able to stop them. All they had is a dumb ear to his CRY. Only thing they had in their mind is, in Bangalore one need not do 'Annoying' jobs like milking the cow, feeding them, spraying pesticides, mannuring, watering...moreover getting dirty in soil. And can lead a happy life free from all these 'Tensions'!! Finally, a 'Green dream' was shattered.

Many of our elders have a thinking that agriculture is not meant for educated youths. According to them they have to go to city and earn more money for their family. Agriculture is meant only for dropouts! Isn't it ridiculous? At the this juncture when our agriculture sector is crumbling day by day, and most of our thinkers are advocating educated youth to pursue farming, these kind of established beliefs can certainly make one's dream of 'Green life' miserable.

For instance, if a well educated youth, full of 'Green dreams' wishes to pursue farming, first question he has to face is: 'Why are you here? being such a highly educated why don't you look for a lucrative job in city rather than wasting your time here and making your hands dirty?' This alone is sufficient for a person who encounters such absurd questions repeatedly to loose confidence, who is already 'half heartedly' supported by his family. Literally he becomes lonely and starts losing interest and finally hope.

Added to this is his struggle to cope up with day today problems of the agriculture, market insecurity makes him more vulnerable to lose even traces of hope left. At the end, Nobody comes to his rescue. Nor society, nor government nor his own family! Now, tell me who is responsible for such a situation, which made him to look into road towards city? Obviously, another 'Green dream' was shattered.

Another peculiar thing that has become a social issue nowadays is that no girl is willing to marry a farmer. Interestingly even girls from the agricultural family turning away from a farmer!
According to media reports, coastal and malnad region of Karnataka, about 50 percent of young ryot grooms are still unmarried. Many of them are now in their 40s! Moreover, in most of the cases, parents, though they themselves are farmers, are hesitant to marry off their daughters to a ryot even if girl is willing! When such is the situation, how can farming be remain as respectable profession? However, It hurts me to say that It has already lost its respectabily for wrong reasons.

According to A P Malathi, writer, who recently was conferred Sahitya Academy Award, says that 'Younger generation of farming families are more vulnerable to to lose interest in farming when elder members of the family themselves are unsupportive. Also they feel more freedom, selfsufficient and fulfilling because of money they earn in cities. When parents are also supportive to this kind of life, nobody can stop them hating the soil.

What to say such to 'Characters' of our society-'who doesn't do-and don't let others to do?

Go to hell!