Hind Sight

I have been going through a lot of discomfort from the bullous pamphyigoid blisters, and for the last two weeks, the treatment from our Bosio Hospital dermatologist has worked. She is very good and a dedicated doctor which is a blessing in these days of money making craze.

I find when on one side there is hate mongering spread through our media in entertainment and news, I found after stopping the subscription for 3 months a vast difference coming from All India Radio programs that are being beamed i Goa. It is very multifaceted and more appropriate to the people living here. These people have always lived in harmony, so much so, BJP had to modify their stance. I am glad, that one day they will realize that to make political gain, one does not have to destroy before starting rebuilding on your pet ideas. If we open our eyes and see how mankind has developed in the past, it was always, because man wanted to do the same thing a little better and a little faster.

One time when I had to be hospitalized for my corneal grafting for 16 days and nights my brother had told me of a technique to spend this time and that was to imagine being dumped on a lonely island where you are given a remote control and your press it to get what you want. I did not like that idea, so I threw the remote away and found I was behaving like Robinson Crusoe ! I slept for a while on the beach and then went inside, where there were trees. Thought of building a shack but only myself ? Gave up, and finally landed in a cave. It was o.k. for the time being. Next morning when I was hungry, what could I do, no utensils, no fire, so went out and saw fruits growing on trees. For some time I did it, but then old tastes die hard. Saw fish wriggling in the river, and saw banyan tree roots flowing down. Plucked one, and put a thorn at the end, and put an earth worm and threw it in the river and a fish bit it. Got it out, but how to cook it ? No match box, no lighter, then I saw something burning and put the fish there and it brewed and got roasted, and I picked the meat and ate it. Went to the river and drank some water.
When all this was happening I asked myself what am I doing. The same as the old man in the caves which I knew was taught us in school, the "primitive" man. Was I one ? Then I understood, he was not primitive, he did not have the hind sight of experience that mankind has gained in subsequent years.

Then I realized why I used to go first on bycycles which I had purchased. My father had one before me. That means, many years before me, they had felt the need to innovate our travelling ways. Then there was the need to switch over from horse cart to an automobile when they discovered kerosene, from which they could extract petrol. Then came the hunting game to find where to get it from cheaply. They found it in Aabadan in Persia. I guy from the Caucasus, went on the job. Migrated to Scotland, and stated the company, in which Winston Churchill too worked. Later he persuaded the gentleman to go in partnership from the British and they started the Anglo Iranian Oil Company, and we have many elderly men, who worked there when our country was ruled by the British, and made pots of money. Ford started his automobile company and it started first in Germany and the Mercedes Benz and came to America, England, and France. India was nowhere. Modi was n first flight wright brothers ot born. No one had any idea of Digital Revolution !!

Then one fine day,Wright Brothers hit upon an idea to fly, and began their first experiments in 1910. In 1987 the Jews had got together in Vienna and started a Zionist movement to get their fellow men get back to their roots, with Theodore Hertzel at the helm Soon it was taken over by the Van der Bilts, the Rockefellers and other Jewish giants of Europe who mostly built their empires in Germany. 1897 to 1910 and they would surely have had an idea of diversifying and financed all these ventures. Remember one leads to nother and men get different ideas, some beneficial, some self serving and human nature being what it is we easily succumb to temptation.

To be continued.