The slogan that public speakers took fascination to say with pride that society used to hear until not too long ago, namely unity in diversity, applied to the land’s masses, seems to have become not only outdated but also suffered a time-warp. Considering the number of causes triggering road shows in their pursuit by well-marked sections of the country’s population expressing disenchantment with the policies and measures of successive governments, one cannot but feel amazed at the nation of multiple faiths, lingos, ethnicity, economic disparities and Constitutional privileges still holding together unlike during the past many centuries with more than 500 rulers of their territories waging wars, giving an open invitation to many alien forces, two of which stayed in the land and took complete charge of the country, about which one can read in the pages of the land’s chequered history. Although the country is endowed with the presence of persons whose wisdom and upright character are unquestionable, their voice have been subdued and their influence on societal behaviour hardly noticeable. In this context, setting aside human diversity for a while, one is justified to focus on biodiversity and ponder over safeguarding that nature’s gift on top priority.
The land’s scholars of yore, many of whom immortalised themselves as authors of scripts dedicated to nature in all its forms, both life forms and inanimate forms, have left a rich legacy of knowledge that should serve as guidelines in the daunting task of sustaining biodiversity as the lifeline for human existence for all times. But, these guidelines are followed more in breach than conforming in our times.
