just before its too late.......

playgrounds,markets,malls,roads,lakes,monuments....everything we delhiities can have access to .....we manage to litter it...ruin it....refurnish any n every thin with garbage....the capabilties of us delhities can never be put to thought....in the retrospect i recall an expedition to merrut with few of my batchmates or put staccato workmates...during the journey the usual "dilli di picnic party" begun, the variety of food seemed endless and so did the wrappers that accompnied the well preserved delicacies...the feast was soon replaced by the leftover & wrappers and to no surprise the only disposal that was overboard was the windows of the bus...so a chapaati wrapper was made to do a ssomersault n the bhindi ka dibba took a plunge into the river below the bridge and the left over kakdi did an unprecedented and unseen acrobatic move to mark its exit....and when an irritated me enquired about why was this wrath being brought on to the city...an enlightened and impromptu repli was fired with an echoing laughter....."o ji the board reads keep your city clean...main taan diili te bahar aan...."gaawwd.....

but the recent photgraph of a white tiger holding a plastic waterbottle in its jaw in the delhi zoo made me realize the new lows we had reached...and the publishing of this photograph in a national daily puts forth the status-quo...the animals in the delhi zoo are in no less a trauma with unconcerned authorties and cherry on the cake, here we are the super dirty delhites...the zoo earlier had all plastic utensils bann in the vicinity but it was the super delhite who coaxed the authorities to allow milk bottles for children makin a conduit for other pet bottles and now a display of such bottles around various enclousres is a common visual..the strata of society that cannot afford expensive restaurants for their romantic meets escape to palces like zoos with hardly any interest in the beauty of the nature...and following the lines of the popular hindi song"tere chehre se nazar nahi hati nazaarein hum kya dekhe"...these couples go on polluting the vicnity with gift wrappers...bottles...food leftovers...the animals here already suffer alot owing to the improper facilities and an uncivilized attitude of us citizens make their fight to survival much tougher...its high time to realize that keeping your house clean would serve no good if you cannot respect others......