Saturday, March 6, 2010

How do we change?

The other day when I was cleaning my room, I couldn't believe I was dumping so much of plastic into the dustbin. At that moment I had decided that I should reduce the usage of plastic frm then. But nothing changed the next time I cleaned my room. What Chris Jordan said was
absolutey right. The gigantic numbers that we hear of the wastage is not really making an impact on us. So he attempts to picturise the resources that are just thrown away after using, those which harm our body and those which are used just because of the hype that is created about them. Tragedies like 9/11 are remembered throughout history,but things like deaths caused due to smoking, consuming alcohol, over-eating etc are simply ignored because we think we can't do anything abt it.
He also talks about the BIG question,today being 'HOW DO WE CHANGE? as a culture as well as individually '. Yes, there is an urgent need for 'change' not only in the U.S.A, in every part of the world, to hold responsibility towards the society and the nature, to understand that there is
a thin line between what is essential and what is desired.The change can just begin with a serious thought given to it. And when we change as a culture, it automatically makes an impact on the size of the pictures in Jordan's works.

Friday, March 5, 2010

Theory of choice

Suman sir came up with this question which initially sounded very trivial and insignificant ("where would you prefer buying vegetables ,in Reliance fresh where you could purchase them at a lower price or the vegetable vendor who passes by your house everyday. "),but then it is goin to be a part of our daily life .Never really analysed this kind of a situation.
Among all the answers 'purchasing them from an organic farmer'( as told by Ravali ),I felt ,was the best idea. One point worth noting is that one does not need to buy vegetables in places which
are air-conditioned and so well electrified and moreover when we are purchasing something from the same person regularly there will be a sense of responsibility towards each other.Even if we are purchasing goods from marts like Reliance Fresh, we have to try not to carry them in plastic bags.
And then we started analysing another situation,'which is the best place to have snacks inside the campus' and at the end of the discussion I came to know that we could buy fresh fruits in yuktahaar and that it was the healthiest among all the messes in IIIT.But I think eating simple and non-spicy food regularly in Yukta would really take a lot of time for me.